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Evaluate Skill Unit metadata and triggers for task routing.

29|15|Updated Oct 17, 2025

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One-click install

npx skills add https://github.com/NickCrew/claude-cortex --skill your-skill-name-nickcrew

Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼

Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: your-skill-name
Source: https://github.com/NickCrew/claude-cortex/tree/main/skills/community/.template
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/NickCrew/claude-cortex --skill your-skill-name-nickcrew

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the guesswork of creating well-structured, properly documented skills by providing a complete template with frontmatter structure, section organization, and best practice examples for skill development and community contribution.

Core Features & Use Cases

Skill Creation: Use this template to structure your own skills with proper documentation, examples, and testing strategies.

Quick Start

Use the community template skill to create a new skill called 'data-pipeline-patterns' with clear description, use cases, and implementation examples.

Use Case: Imagine you've developed a powerful data processing pattern. Use this Skill to automatically generate the proper SKILL.md structure with frontmatter, core concepts, patterns, and best practices documentation.

Quick Start

Create a new skill directory 'skills/data-pipeline-patterns' and populate it with the template structure for your specific use case.

Frequently Asked Questions about your-skill-name

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema

How do I create a well-structured skill with proper documentation?▼

Use this template to structure your skill with frontmatter, organized sections, and best practice examples. It provides a complete framework for skill development including description, use cases, implementation patterns, and testing strategies, ensuring community-ready documentation from the start.

What should I include in skill metadata and frontmatter?▼

Skill metadata requires name, description, version, license, tags, and timestamps. The template enforces parsing of these fields alongside functional and technical requirements, enabling precise activation across information retrieval, data transformation, code generation, and documentation synthesis scenarios.

How do I determine if a skill applies to a user's request?▼

Evaluate activation triggers by assessing skill metadata against the task requirements. This framework routes to the correct integration path by matching functional and technical requirements, determining applicability across diverse scenarios like data transformation and code generation.

Can I use this template for any type of skill contribution?▼

Yes, this template works for any community skill creation. It provides section organization and structural examples adaptable to different domains—from data processing patterns to documentation synthesis—with built-in best practices for skill development across AI skill repositories and RAG pipelines.

What's the difference between this template approach and ad-hoc skill creation?▼

This template eliminates guesswork by enforcing consistent frontmatter structure, metadata parsing requirements, and activation trigger evaluation. Structured skills enable precise routing in RAG pipelines and skill repositories, reducing integration errors and improving discoverability versus unstructured documentation.