/create-skill — Turn a workflow, brief, or chat into a skill

Replaces the prior add-skill. Primary use case: you've been iterating on a workflow in conversation (like this entire session) and now want to formalize it. Secondary: scaffold from a brief / data dump / fresh idea.

Step 1 — Pick input mode

Invocation	Mode	What it means
`/create-skill` (mid-conversation)	from-chat (default)	Extract the skill from the workflow we've been discussing in this session. The most common case.
`/create-skill from-video <url-or-path>`	from-video	Corey recorded a Loom / Zoom / screen-share of himself doing a process. Skill calls `watch-video` (visual mode) to get transcript + key visual moments, then synthesizes the workflow into a SKILL.md. Best for visual workflows hard to describe in text.
`/create-skill from-dump` + pasted content	from-dump	User provides a brief, prior conversation transcript, exported chat, or notes. Skill structures it.
`/create-skill from-scratch <name>`	from-scratch	Fresh idea with no source material — interactive Q&A to flesh it out (the prior `add-skill` behavior).

If unspecified and there's substantive recent conversation, default to from-chat. If the conversation is empty/short, ask which mode.

Step 2 — Defer to Anthropic / community guidance for the schema

Don't reinvent SKILL.md format rules. For canonical guidance on frontmatter, description-writing, references/ structure, and skill best practices, this skill leans on: