Skill Developer Guide

Purpose

Comprehensive guide for creating and managing skills in Claude Code, following the Agent Skills Specification and Anthropic's best practices including the 500-line rule and progressive disclosure pattern.

Agent Skills Specification (agentskills.io)

Skills in this project follow the open Agent Skills Specification. Key requirements:

Directory Structure

skills/{skill-name}/
├── SKILL.md           # Required - main skill file
├── references/        # Optional - detailed documentation
├── scripts/           # Optional - executable code (Python, Bash, JS)
└── assets/            # Optional - templates, images, data files