Skill Architect: The Authoritative Meta-Skill

The unified authority for creating expert-level Agent Skills. Encodes the knowledge that separates a skill that merely exists from one that activates precisely, teaches efficiently, and makes users productive immediately.

Philosophy

Great skills are progressive disclosure machines. They encode real domain expertise (shibboleths), not surface instructions. They follow a three-layer architecture: lightweight metadata for discovery, lean SKILL.md for core process, and reference files for deep dives loaded only on demand.

When to Use This Skill

✅ Use for:

• Creating new skills from scratch or from existing expertise
• Auditing/reviewing skills for quality, activation, and progressive disclosure
• Improving activation rates and reducing false positives
• Encoding domain expertise (shibboleths, anti-patterns, temporal knowledge)
• Designing skills that subagents consume effectively
• Building self-contained tools (scripts, MCPs, subagents)