Skill

Skill Creator

anthropics/skills

Making skills, not using them: package a workflow you keep repeating into a skill, then test whether it actually fires when it should.

Situations it fits

Every release, you paste the same 14-step checklist into Claude and walk it through your team's deploy ritual. You're tired of pasting.

Skill Creator. A repeatable procedure you keep re-teaching is exactly what a skill is: packaged instructions that load when relevant. skill-creator builds, tests, and tunes that package. No external service is involved, so MCP is the tempting wrong answer.

Your team's PR reviews keep missing the same things. You want Claude to run YOUR checklist - auth checks, error paths, naming rules - on every review, automatically.

Skill Creator. A house checklist Claude should follow every time is packaged knowledge - a skill. skill-creator also tests that it triggers reliably. GitHub access might already exist; what's missing is your team's WAY of reviewing, and that's what skills encode.

You have walked three different teammates through the same four-step release checklist this month. You would rather Claude just knew it.

Skill Creator. A procedure you keep re-teaching is the textbook case for packaging it as a skill, which is skill-creator. academy-guide answers questions ABOUT using Claude rather than extending it, claude-api is for code that calls Claude, and discernment-nudge is not something anyone asks for.

You’ve extracted a repetitive workflow and want to package it so other teams can trigger it; after packaging, implement a caller that invokes the packaged action and validates behavior under real model settings.

Skill Creator. Create the packaged skill first so there’s a stable interface to call. Building the caller before the skill exists forces you to mock or hard-code behavior and then rewrite the caller once the actual interface is available, which wastes development and test effort.

8 scenarios in the bank answer to Skill Creator. The rest are in the game.

Skills it gets confused with

These share a family with Skill Creator, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.

Knowing what Skill Creator does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.

Today's session

Skill Creator is part of anthropics/skills. Licence: Apache-2.0. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.