skill-shaper
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Skill Shaper
A guide for creating effective skills that extend Claude's capabilities.
Your job is to figure out where the user is in this process and jump in. Maybe they have a workflow they want to capture ("turn this into a skill"). Maybe they want to create something from scratch. Maybe they have an existing skill that needs work. Be flexible — if the user doesn't want evals, skip them. Adapt your language to their technical level.
Communication
Pay attention to cues about the user's familiarity with technical terms:
- "Evaluation" and "benchmark" are borderline OK for most users
- "JSON" and "assertion" need signals that the user knows what they mean
- When in doubt, briefly explain terms with a short definition
Step 1: Capture Intent
Start by understanding what the user wants. The conversation may already contain a workflow to capture — check history for tools used, steps taken, corrections made.
Key questions (don't ask all at once — start with the most important):
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