Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
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.
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# Skill Creator
This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills.
## About Skills
Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend Claude's capabilities by providing
specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific
domains or tasks—they transform Claude from a general-purpose agent into a specialized agent
equipped with procedural knowledge that no model can fully possess.
### What Skills Provide
1. Specialized workflows - Multi-step procedures for specific domains
2. Tool integrations - Instructions for working with specific file formats or APIs
3. Domain expertise - Company-specific knowledge, schemas, business logic
4. Bundled resources - Scripts, references, and assets for complex and repetitive tasks
### Anatomy of a Skill
Every skill consists of a required SKILL.md file and optional bundled resources:
```
skill-name/
├── SKILL.md (required)
│ ├── YAML frontmatter metadata (required)
│ │ ├── name: (required)
│ │ └── description: (required)
│ └── Markdown instructions (required)
└── Bundled Resources (optional)
├── scripts/ - Executable code (Python/Bash/etc.)
…
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20251017.8a6c9e7, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rz6eyz6tu6g5zjzi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=shajith003/awesome-claude-skills/skill-creator
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8c0ce23bb87be91f5b0853c2e9815617c3858b63acdddfe5da47d2c2d3a60816
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.
shajith003/awesome-claude-skills · algorithmic-art/SKILL.md · Creating algorithmic art using p5.js with seeded randomness and interactive parameter exploration. Use this when users…
shajith003/awesome-claude-skills · artifacts-builder/SKILL.md · Suite of tools for creating elaborate, multi-component claude.ai HTML artifacts using modern frontend web technologies…
shajith003/awesome-claude-skills · brand-guidelines/SKILL.md · Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having…
shajith003/awesome-claude-skills · canvas-design/SKILL.md · Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user…
shajith003/awesome-claude-skills · document-skills/docx/SKILL.md · Comprehensive document creation, editing, and analysis with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting…
shajith003/awesome-claude-skills · document-skills/pdf/SKILL.md · Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents…
shajith003/awesome-claude-skills · document-skills/pptx/SKILL.md · Presentation creation, editing, and analysis. When Claude needs to work with presentations (.pptx files) for: (1)…
shajith003/awesome-claude-skills · document-skills/xlsx/SKILL.md · Comprehensive spreadsheet creation, editing, and analysis with support for formulas, formatting, data analysis, and…
shajith003/awesome-claude-skills · internal-comms/SKILL.md · A set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to…
shajith003/awesome-claude-skills · mcp-builder/SKILL.md · Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external…
shajith003/awesome-claude-skills · slack-gif-creator/SKILL.md · Toolkit for creating animated GIFs optimized for Slack, with validators for size constraints and composable animation…
anthropics/skills · skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a…
bytedance/deer-flow · skills/public/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a…
cherryhq/cherry-studio · resources/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create, edit, evaluate, and optimize skills, including benchmarking and description tuning for better triggering.
hkuds/deeptutor · deeptutor/skills/builtin/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Design and author DeepTutor skills (SKILL.md packages). Use when the user wants to create a new skill, improve an…
anthropics/claude-plugins-official · plugins/skill-creator/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a…
volcengine/openviking · bot/workspace/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create or update AgentSkills. Use when designing, structuring, or packaging skills with scripts, references, and assets.
garrytan/gbrain · plugin/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills following the GBrain conformance standard. Generates SKILL.md
with frontmatter, Contract, Phases…
garrytan/gbrain · skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills following the GBrain conformance standard. Generates SKILL.md
with frontmatter, Contract, Phases…
