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skill-creation-walkthrough
Step-by-step guide for creating your own Claude Skills, from deciding whether a skill is the right tool to writing the SKILL.md file, structuring reference material, and making it trigger reliably. Use when you want to package a workflow, framework, or repeated task into a reusable Skill, when an existing skill is not triggering or not loading the right context, when you are auditing a skill that is underperforming, or when you want to publish a skill for others. Also triggers when someone asks "how do I make a skill" or "what makes a good skill". Useful for individuals, teams, and anyone publishing skills publicly.
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A walkthrough for designing, writing, and maintaining your own Claude Skills. Covers when a skill is the right shape for your problem, how to write a description that actually triggers, how to structure SKILL.md and references, and how to test and iterate.
## When to use
- You catch yourself writing the same prompt or instructions repeatedly.
- You want to package a workflow or framework for reuse.
- An existing skill of yours is not triggering when it should.
- You are publishing skills for others to use.
- You want to teach Claude a domain-specific way of working.
- You are reviewing a skill someone wrote and need a quality bar.
## When NOT to use
- For one-off prompts (just write the prompt).