skill-generator

What problem does it solve?

Creating new Claude Skills with proper structure, effective descriptions, and adherence to best practices can be time-consuming and require familiarity with the skill definition. This skill automates the generation process, ensuring your new skills are well-formed, discoverable, and ready for use from the start.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Guided Skill Creation: Interactively asks targeted questions to understand the skill's purpose, concrete use cases, and natural language triggers, ensuring a highly effective SKILL.md.
• Best Practice Enforcement: Generates SKILL.md with concise, outcome-oriented descriptions, uses hyphen-case for names, and applies appropriate structural templates (workflow, task, reference, or capabilities-based).
• Resource Recommendation: Intelligently suggests optional scripts/, references/, and assets/ directories based on the skill's complexity and intended use, promoting organized development.
• Use Case: You want to create a new skill for "managing project TODO lists." This skill will guide you through defining its purpose, generate the SKILL.md file with the correct YAML frontmatter and structure, and even suggest relevant resources, saving you from manual setup and formatting.

Quick Start

SKILL.md template (keep it concise - aim for <200 lines):

---

name: [hyphen-case-name]

description: [What it does + when to use + trigger keywords]

---

# [Skill Title]

[1-2 sentence overview]

## [Main Section]

[Core instructions - keep focused]