skill-creator

Creating a Claude skill involves generating a SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter containing required metadata like name and description, then organizing supporting resources in scripts/, references/, and assets/ directories. The skill-creator automates this scaffolding, enforcing hyphen-case naming and validating metadata to ensure compliance with skill packaging standards.

SKILL.md is the blueprint for a Claude skill, containing frontmatter metadata and structured instructions that reference bundled resources. Proper structure ensures skills are portable, discoverable, and executable; it specifies how Claude accesses scripts and references, making the skill reusable across contexts.

Yes. The skill-creator handles both new skill creation and updates to existing SKILL.md files, regenerating metadata and instruction sections while preserving your custom resource references and validating naming conventions and description formatting.

Packaging a skill involves organizing your SKILL.md, scripts, references, and assets into a directory structure, then compressing it into a zip file. The skill-creator guides this layout and naming validation, ensuring your packaged skill meets distribution standards.

Claude skills require hyphen-case naming (e.g., my-skill-name) and descriptions must not contain angle brackets. The skill-creator enforces these constraints during metadata generation, preventing invalid characters and formatting that would break skill execution.

No. The skill-creator generates placeholder scripts, references, and assets directories as part of scaffolding, establishing the resource layout required for a valid skill structure. You populate these with your actual content.