skills/smithery.ai/Building Agent Skills

Building Agent Skills

Installation
SKILL.md

Overview

This skill enables the creation of Agent Skills following established best practices and patterns. It provides a structured workflow for gathering requirements, determining appropriate complexity (archetype), planning structure, generating artifacts, and validating the resulting skill.

The skill supports three archetypes:

  • Simple: Single SKILL.md with inline instructions
  • Moderate: SKILL.md with separate reference files
  • Complex: Full Phase/Stage/Step hierarchy with schemas and scripts

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Building Agent Skills from smithery.ai