create-skill

Scaffolding a new agent skill directory is automated by generating the complete folder skeleton, including starter SKILL.md frontmatter, evals/evals.json, and references/, after a brief discovery interview captures your skill's name and goal.

A standards-compliant agent skill skeleton includes the SKILL.md file with frontmatter, an evals directory containing evals.json, and a references folder containing acceptance-criteria.md and supporting documentation to guide development.

You do not need to manually write SKILL.md frontmatter because the scaffolding process automatically generates it based on your answers during a lightweight discovery interview about your skill's name, goal, and trigger phrases.

Yes, you can generate evals.json and acceptance criteria for agent skill testing because the scaffolding process creates placeholder evals.json and references/acceptance-criteria.md specifically to support and structure your testing workflow.

The best way to set up references and templates for a new skill is using an automated scaffolding tool, which establishes the required references directory and initial documentation structure to ensure standards compliance from the start.

Before scaffolding an agent skill directory, you need to provide the skill name, core goal, and trigger phrases during a lightweight discovery interview, which the tool then uses to populate the generated SKILL.md and directory structure.