What problem does it solve?
Reduce friction and inconsistency when creating, organizing, and validating Claude Code plugin skills by providing a clear, repeatable authoring process and checklist that ensures discoverability and efficient context loading.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Authoring guidance: Define SKILL.md frontmatter with exact name and third-person trigger description, and write the body in imperative form.
- Progressive disclosure & organization: Recommend moving large or detailed content to references/, place deterministic utilities in scripts/, and store output templates in assets/.
- Validation and testing: Provide a checklist for structure, trigger phrases, style, referenced resources, and testing workflows to verify the skill triggers and functions as intended.
- Use Case: When adding a new "hook-development" skill to a plugin, follow the process to create SKILL.md, reference patterns in references/, add test utilities in scripts/, and run validation to ensure correct triggers and progressive disclosure.
Quick Start
Create a new skill directory under skills/, add SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter including name and a third-person description with exact trigger phrases, write the body in imperative form, and place detailed documentation in references/.
