Write Skill

This skill helps you author high-signal, maintainable Skills that reliably improve agent performance.

It is intentionally procedural where the platform has hard constraints (frontmatter validity, invocation controls, safety) and guiding where multiple viable design strategies exist (structure, tone, degree of strictness).

A skill you write should be usable by a different agent (or a human) with no prior context—it should stand on its own.

Workflow overview

Follow the detailed steps below. In practice, the shortest correct path is:

1. Step 0: Identify request type (Create / Refactor / Harden / Integrate / Update).
2. Step 2: Capture intent + define "done."
3. Steps 3–5: Choose invocation/safety, execution model, and structure.
4. Steps 6–8: Draft frontmatter, SKILL.md body, and supporting files (progressive disclosure).
5. Step 10: Validate and deliver (folder tree + full contents; minimal assumptions).