Create Skill

Create new skills and iteratively improve them through testing and evaluation.

About Skills

Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. They transform Claude from a general-purpose agent into a specialized one equipped with procedural knowledge no model can fully possess.

Skills provide: specialized workflows, tool integrations, domain expertise, and bundled resources (scripts, references, assets).

Core Principles

Concise is Key

The context window is a public good shared with system prompt, conversation history, other skills, and user requests. Claude is already very smart — only add context it doesn't already have. Challenge each piece: "Does Claude really need this?" and "Does this justify its token cost?" Prefer concise examples over verbose explanations.

Set Appropriate Degrees of Freedom

Match specificity to the task's fragility and variability: