Skill Authoring Guide

This skill provides guidance for writing Agent Skills that comply with the agentskills.io specification.

When to Use

• Creating a new skill for this repository
• Reviewing a skill PR for compliance
• Checking if an existing skill follows best practices
• Understanding token budgets and progressive disclosure

Constraints

• name: 1-64 chars, lowercase + hyphens, match directory
• description: 1-1024 chars, explain WHAT and WHEN
• SKILL.md: <500 tokens (soft), <5000 (hard)
• references/*.md: <1000 tokens each

Structure