Instructions when creating or editing skills.

What is a Skill?

A skill (.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md) extends what Claude can do in the current conversation. Skills come in two flavors:

• Reference skills — conventions, patterns, domain knowledge. Claude auto-loads them when relevant and applies them inline alongside conversation context.
• Task skills — step-by-step instructions for a specific action (deploy, commit, generate). Typically invoked explicitly via /name. Can run inline or fork to a subagent with context: fork.

Skills follow the open Agent Skills standard; Claude Code adds invocation control, subagent execution, and dynamic context injection. Custom commands have been merged into skills — .claude/commands/foo.md and .claude/skills/foo/SKILL.md both produce /foo; if both exist, the skill wins.