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skill-creator

@anthropics/skill-creator
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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.

Installation

$skills install @anthropics/skill-creator
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Details

Pathskills/skill-creator/SKILL.md
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Scoped Name@anthropics/skill-creator

Usage

After installing, this skill will be available to your AI coding assistant.

Verify installation:

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