Skill Developer Guide

Purpose

Comprehensive guide for creating and managing skills in Claude Code with auto-activation system, following Anthropic's official best practices including the 500-line rule and progressive disclosure pattern.

When to Use This Skill

Automatically activates when you mention:

• Creating or adding skills
• Modifying skill triggers or rules
• Understanding how skill activation works
• Debugging skill activation issues
• Working with skill-rules.json
• Hook system mechanics
• Claude Code best practices
• Progressive disclosure
• YAML frontmatter
• 500-line rule