skills-best-practices

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SKILL.md

Skills Best Practices

Comprehensive reference for building Agent Skills that follow Anthropic's official guidelines. Skills are folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources that teach Claude how to handle specific tasks. They follow the Agent Skills open standard.

Quick Start

A minimal skill is a directory with a SKILL.md file:

my-skill/
├── SKILL.md          # Required - instructions with YAML frontmatter
├── references/       # Optional - detailed docs loaded on demand
├── scripts/          # Optional - executable code
└── assets/           # Optional - templates, fonts, icons

Minimal SKILL.md:

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