Skill Creator Guide
Guides the agent to create or update well-structured SKILL.md agent skills
- Repository
- tailcallhq/forgecode
- Stars
- 7,638
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
When you ask the agent to make a new skill (or change an existing one), this skill gives it a set of design rules: keep instructions short, match the level of detail to how fragile the task is, put detailed reference material in separate files, and avoid clutter like README files. It is a how-to guide for writing skills rather than a tool that does a specific job itself. It contains only instructions; it does not include scripts, templates or network calls.
Great for
- Developers who want to write their own agent skills and want consistent structure
- Teams building internal skill libraries who want a shared set of authoring conventions
- People new to agent skills who want the agent to walk them through the format
Skip it if
- Anyone expecting it to do a domain task (it only teaches how to build skills, so the output depends on your own specifications) because it has no bundled tools or templates
- Users wanting a finished, verified skill out of the box, since the guidance does not test or validate the skill files it helps produce
Try asking
- “Create a new skill that teaches you how to write weekly sales reports from our CSV exports”
- “Update my existing code-review skill so the description says when it should trigger”
- “Help me set up the folder structure and SKILL.md frontmatter for a skill about our brand style guide”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.
create-skill.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip create-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip create-skill.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Describe the domain, the tasks the skill should handle and example requests so the agent can write a precise description field that triggers the skill correctly
- Review the generated SKILL.md before installing it, since skills shape how the agent behaves and can include scripts you should check
- Ask for detailed reference material to go in a references/ folder rather than in SKILL.md to keep the main file lean
What's inside
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from tailcallhq/forgecode under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.