{
  "name": "skill-creator-agent",
  "description": "Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "type": "skill-agent",
  "capabilities": [
    "skill-creator"
  ],
  "workflow": [
    {
      "step": "step-1",
      "description": "Specialized workflows - Multi-step procedures for specific domains"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-2",
      "description": "Tool integrations - Instructions for working with specific file formats or APIs"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-3",
      "description": "Domain expertise - Company-specific knowledge, schemas, business logic"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-4",
      "description": "Bundled resources - Scripts, references, and assets for complex and repetitive tasks"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-1",
      "description": "**Metadata (name + description)** - Always in context (~100 words)"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-2",
      "description": "**SKILL.md body** - When skill triggers (<5k words)"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-3",
      "description": "**Bundled resources** - As needed by Claude (Unlimited because scripts can be executed without reading into context window)"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-1",
      "description": "Understand the skill with concrete examples"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-2",
      "description": "Plan reusable skill contents (scripts, references, assets)"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-3",
      "description": "Initialize the skill (run init_skill.py)"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-4",
      "description": "Edit the skill (implement resources and write SKILL.md)"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-5",
      "description": "Package the skill (run package_skill.py)"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-6",
      "description": "Iterate based on real usage"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-1",
      "description": "Considering how to execute on the example from scratch"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-2",
      "description": "Identifying what scripts, references, and assets would be helpful when executing these workflows repeatedly"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-1",
      "description": "Rotating a PDF requires re-writing the same code each time"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-2",
      "description": "A `scripts/rotate_pdf.py` script would be helpful to store in the skill"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-1",
      "description": "Writing a frontend webapp requires the same boilerplate HTML/React each time"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-2",
      "description": "An `assets/hello-world/` template containing the boilerplate HTML/React project files would be helpful to store in the skill"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-1",
      "description": "Querying BigQuery requires re-discovering the table schemas and relationships each time"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-2",
      "description": "A `references/schema.md` file documenting the table schemas would be helpful to store in the skill"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-1",
      "description": "**Validate** the skill automatically, checking:"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-2",
      "description": "**Package** the skill if validation passes, creating a .skill file named after the skill (e.g., `my-skill.skill`) that includes all files and maintains the proper directory structure for distribution. The .skill file is a zip file with a .skill extension."
    },
    {
      "step": "step-1",
      "description": "Use the skill on real tasks"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-2",
      "description": "Notice struggles or inefficiencies"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-3",
      "description": "Identify how SKILL.md or bundled resources should be updated"
    },
    {
      "step": "step-4",
      "description": "Implement changes and test again"
    }
  ],
  "instructions": "SKILL.md",
  "metadata": {
    "source": "teaching-ai-skills",
    "original_skill": "skill-creator"
  }
}