compound-skill

Installation
SKILL.md

Creating a Compound Skill

Guide for creating a compound skill — a structured knowledge base that provides in-depth reference documentation for a project, technology, or topic. A compound skill consists of a SKILL.md routing table and a set of reference documents in a references/ directory.

Sub-Resources

Load the reference that matches your task. When in doubt, load multiple references.

Keywords Reference
research, source code analysis, documentation review, topic decomposition, sub-topic identification, scope boundaries, audience analysis, information sources references/research.md
SKILL.md, frontmatter, name, description, triggers, user-invocable, routing table, Sub-Resources table, Quick Guide, Cross-Project References, data flow diagram references/skill-md.md
reference document, structure, heading, code example, table, cross-reference, source attribution, depth level, naming convention references/reference-doc.md
cross-reference, link, overlap avoidance, delegation, Cross-Project References, stay on topic, DRY, complementary scope references/cross-referencing.md
maintenance, update triggers, adding references, removing references, keeping current, version skew, changelog references/maintenance.md

Quick Guide

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