create-agent-skills

Create reusable AI skills by structuring them with XML-based prompts, mandatory frontmatter, intake routing, and explicit success criteria. Design modular components using optional scripts, references, and assets directories, then validate the skill structure against the router pattern to ensure consistency and shareability across workflows.

Design modular skills using router-based SKILL.md structures with dedicated workflows, references, and templates. Enforce XML formatting with frontmatter sections, establish clear routing logic, and include dependency checks and testing patterns to ensure your skill is maintainable, testable, and reusable across automation workflows.

Yes. Build custom AI skills that automate domain-specific tasks by defining clear objectives, processes, and success criteria in structured XML prompts. Your skills can integrate with external tools, provide consistent outputs, and reduce manual effort by packaging workflow logic into reusable, shareable units Claude can execute reliably.

Audit existing skills by validating their SKILL.md structure against router patterns, checking XML formatting, reviewing dependency declarations, and confirming testing patterns are satisfied. Upgrade by progressively enhancing workflows, references, and templates while maintaining the mandatory frontmatter and success criteria structure.

Skills require XML-based structure with mandatory frontmatter, intake sections, routing logic, and explicit success criteria. Include non-markdown bodies, dependency checks, testing patterns, and optional scripts or references directories to create skills that Claude can understand, route correctly, and execute as cohesive automation units.

No prerequisite workflows are required. Begin by defining your skill's objective, process, and success criteria using the XML structure and router pattern. Start with a simple skill like automating unit test generation, validate the structure, then progressively build more complex, domain-specific skills as you develop proficiency.