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skill-creator
Guide for creating effective skills that extend agent capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations. Use this skill when the user asks to: (1) create a new skill, (2) make a skill, (3) build a skill, (4) set up a skill, (5) initialize a skill, (6) scaffold a skill, (7) update or modify an existing skill, (8) validate a skill, (9) learn about skill structure, (10) understand how skills work, or (11) get guidance on skill design patterns. Trigger on phrases like \"create a skill\", \"new skill\", \"make a skill\", \"skill for X\", \"how do I create a skill\", or \"help me build a skill\".
Why this skill is useful
Provides specialized knowledge on creating skills, including workflows and tool integrations that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 10k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 405 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Skill Creator This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills. About Skills Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend agent capabilities by providing specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific domains or tasks—they transform a general-purpose agent into a specialized agent equipped with procedural knowledge and domain expertise. Skill Location for Deepagents In deepagents CLI, skills are stored in ~/.deepagents/<agent>/skills/ where <agent> is your agent configuration name (default is agent). For example, with the default configuration, skills live at: 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 Core Principles Concise is Key The context window is a public good. Skills share the context window with everything else the agent needs: system prompt, conversation history, other Skills' metadata, and the actual user request. Default assumption: The agent is already very capable. Only add context the agent doesn't already have. Challenge each piece of information: "Does the agent really need this explanation?" and "Does this paragraph justify its token cost?" Prefer concise examples over verbose explanations. Set Appropriate Degrees of Freedom Match the level of specificity to the task's fragility and variability: High freedom (text-based instructions): Use when multiple approaches are valid, decisions depend on context, or heuristics guide the approach. Medium freedom (pseudocode or scripts with parameters): Use when a preferred pattern exists, some variation is acceptable, or configuration affects behavior. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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