Genius Skill Creator v17 — The Meta-Skill

Skills that spawn skills. Automate the automator.

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When to Create a Skill

Create a skill when you observe:

1. Repetition: The same workflow is being performed 3+ times
2. Complexity: The workflow has 5+ steps that need orchestration
3. Specialization: The workflow requires specific domain knowledge
4. Handoff: Multiple agents need to coordinate on this workflow

Examples that warrant a skill:

• "Every time we add a payment feature, we do X, Y, Z"
• "Deploying to production always requires these 8 steps"
• "Database migrations always follow this exact pattern"

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Step 1: Understand the Workflow

Gather requirements by analyzing:

# Read existing skills for patterns
ls .claude/skills/
cat .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md | grep -A3 "^## "  # Scan section headers

# Check CLAUDE.md for existing skill references
grep -i "skill\|when.*use\|invoke" CLAUDE.md

# Look for repeated patterns in recent work
git log --oneline -20