skill-creator SKILL.md skillA

skill-creator from zby/commonplace is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add zby/commonplace/skill-creator@git:20260925.7a01057

Pins git:20260925.7a01057 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
zby/commonplace
Path
kb/work/skill-creator-distillation/sources/claude-code-skill-creator/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20260925.7a01057, committed Sep 25, 2026
First version recorded
Mar 23, 2026
Size
33,195 bytes
Repository stars
92
License
CC-BY-4.0

Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill performance with variance analysis, or optimize a skill's description for better triggering accuracy.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Skill Creator

A skill for creating new skills and iteratively improving them.

At a high level, the process of creating a skill goes like this:

- Decide what you want the skill to do and roughly how it should do it
- Write a draft of the skill
- Create a few test prompts and run claude-with-access-to-the-skill on them
- Help the user evaluate the results both qualitatively and quantitatively
  - While the runs happen in the background, draft some quantitative evals if there aren't any (if there are some, you can either use as is or modify if you feel something needs to change about them). Then explain them to the user (or if they already existed, explain the ones that already exist)
  - Use the `eval-viewer/generate_review.py` script to show the user the results for them to look at, and also let them look at the quantitative metrics
- Rewrite the skill based on feedback from the user's evaluation of the results (and also if there are any glaring flaws that become apparent from the quantitative benchmarks)
- Repeat until you're satisfied
- Expand the test set and try again at larger scale
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add zby/commonplace/skill-creator@sha256:72fd27ff16d1fc61

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.7a01057, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Mar 23, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 62 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260925.7a01057 latest2026-09-25 7a01057 33,195 BA view · diff
git:20260925.e6103222026-09-25 e610322 33,186 BA view · diff
git:20260420.1c8c7cd2026-04-20 1c8c7cd 33,198 BA view · diff
git:20260323.ccad9902026-03-23 ccad990 33,168 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (33195 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

zby/commonplace · 92 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ph3k3inb63kndhro
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=zby/commonplace/skill-creator
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/72fd27ff16d1fc618d517316c6311995d9cdadbaa0be5bbeff6573e0f419daa0

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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