Skill Creator

Guidance for authoring effective DeepTutor skills.

What a skill is

A skill is a self-contained capability package: a SKILL.md playbook plus optional references/ files. The system prompt only carries each skill's name + description; the model fetches the full body with the read_skill tool when a task matches. Skills teach procedural knowledge — workflows, domain expertise, format conventions — that no model fully possesses.

Behaviour/voice presets (tone, teaching style) are NOT skills — those are personas, managed separately.

Anatomy