customaize-agent:create-skill

Installation
SKILL.md

Create Skill Command

This command provides guidance for creating effective skills.

Overview

Writing skills IS Test-Driven Development applied to process documentation.

Personal skills live in agent-specific directories (~/.claude/skills for Claude Code, ~/.codex/skills for Codex)

You write test cases (pressure scenarios with subagents), watch them fail (baseline behavior), write the skill (documentation), watch tests pass (agents comply), and refactor (close loopholes).

Core principle: If you didn't watch an agent fail without the skill, you don't know if the skill teaches the right thing.

REQUIRED BACKGROUND: You MUST understand Test-Driven Development before using this skill. That skill defines the fundamental RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle. This skill adapts TDD to documentation.

Official guidance: The Anthropic's official skill authoring best practices provided at the /customaize-agent:apply-anthropic-skill-best-practices command, they enhance customize-agent:prompt-engineering skill. Use skill and the document, as they not copy but add to each other. These document provides additional patterns and guidelines that complement the TDD-focused approach in this skill.

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