Create New Skills

Create a new Claude Code skill by defining its purpose, writing Instructions and Examples in a SKILL.md file, and following Anthropic's design principles. The skill creation workflow guides you through scaffolding, validation, and versioning to extend Claude's capabilities for your specific domain or organizational context.

Skills require frontmatter metadata (name up to 64 characters, description up to 1024 characters) and a SKILL.md file containing Instructions and Examples sections. This standardized structure ensures consistency, enables progressive disclosure of features, and supports optional resources for comprehensive skill documentation.

Yes, skill creation lets you build domain-specific agents tailored to your team's workflows and organizational knowledge. You can design skills for specialized tasks—like code review or meeting note summarization—that apply your best practices and save time across repeated processes.

Follow Anthropic's recommended design principles during skill authoring: define clear use cases, structure instructions and examples systematically, enforce frontmatter constraints, and validate your skill through stepwise testing before sharing it with others.

The skill creation workflow guides you through authoring and sharing without requiring deep technical expertise. It scaffolds the process, validates your skill against best practices, and provides a versioning system so you can refine and distribute your skill progressively.