prompt-best-practises

Structure Claude Code prompts using standardized frontmatter, XML-tagged instruction blocks, and defined role templates. This ensures consistency across skill authoring and produces a discovery-friendly metadata artifact.

Best practices for Claude Code skills involve using standardized naming conventions and frontmatter. Applying structured guidance and XML tagging ensures templates are valid and easily discoverable by the Skill loader.

XML tags in Claude Code prompt authoring work by encapsulating instruction blocks, few-shot examples, and safety patterns. This tagging convention separates role assignments from output formatting to maintain prompt consistency.

Yes, you can validate existing skill templates across teams. The framework provides structured guidance for reviewing and refining prompts, ensuring all team-authored skills conform to safe instruction patterns and frontmatter standards.

Yes, the skill authoring guide supports few-shot examples. It captures example structures and applies them across the workflow, integrating few-shot prompts directly into the XML-tagged instruction blocks for Claude Code.

You need standardized frontmatter for Claude Code skills when producing a structured metadata artifact. This artifact must be consumed by the Skill loader and validated against the frontmatter to ensure proper discovery and execution.