This skill guides creating Claude skills—modular packages that extend capabilities with specialized knowledge and workflows. Use when creating new skills, packaging skills for distribution, or understanding skill architecture.
Skills are modular packages that extend Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, and tool integrations.
my-skill/
├── SKILL.md # Required - metadata and instructions
├── scripts/ # Optional - deterministic code
├── references/ # Optional - documentation loaded on-demand
└── assets/ # Optional - templates and boilerplate
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