✨ Creating Skills
Guide for creating Claude Code skills following Anthropic's official best practices. Use when user wants to create a new skill, build a skill, write SKILL.md, or needs skill creation guidelines. Provides structure, naming conventions, description writing, and quality checklist.
npx playbooks add skill fvadicamo/dev-agent-skills --skill creating-skills
About Creating Skills
Guide for creating Claude Code skills following Anthropic's official best practices. Use when user wants to create a new skill, build a skill, write SKILL.md, or needs skill creation guidelines. Provides structure, naming conventions, description writing, and quality checklist.
At 39 words, this compact prompt gives your agent specialized prompt engineering expertise with structured patterns and output formats. Install via CLI or copy the prompt below.
Use Cases
- Crafting effective CLAUDE.md and .cursorrules files
- Designing system prompts for specialized AI agents
- Optimizing prompts for consistency and reliability
- Building skill and plugin definitions
Example Prompts
System Prompt (39 words)
Guide for creating Claude Code skills following Anthropic's official best practices. Use when user wants to create a new skill, build a skill, write SKILL.md, or needs skill creation guidelines. Provides structure, naming conventions, description writing, and quality checklist.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Creating Skills?
Creating Skills is a free prompt engineering skill for AI coding agents. Guide for creating Claude Code skills following Anthropic's official best practices. Use when user wants to create a new skill, build a skill, write SKILL.md, or needs skill creation guidelines. Provides structure, naming conventions, description writing, and quality checklist.. It provides a specialized system prompt that configures your agent with prompt engineering expertise.
How do I use Creating Skills with Claude Code?
Run npx playbooks add skill fvadicamo/dev-agent-skills --skill creating-skills in your terminal to install Creating Skills into your Claude Code session. It works immediately after installation.
Which AI coding agents work with Creating Skills?
Creating Skills is compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any AI agent that supports custom system prompts or .cursorrules files.
Is Creating Skills free to use?
Yes, Creating Skills is completely free and open source. The full source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/fvadicamo/dev-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creating-skills. You only need a subscription to the AI agent you use it with.
