Skill Creator: Turn Your Workflows Into Reusable Skills

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Skill Creator

Summary

You have a workflow you repeat every week. Reports, code reviews, data cleanup. You want Claude to do it your way, every time. But creating a skill sounds technical.

Instead, answer a few questions. Claude walks you through what your skill should do, then generates a working SKILL.md file you can use immediately.

Stop explaining the same process to Claude over and over. Start teaching it once and reusing that knowledge forever.

Answer questions, get a skill

Claude asks what you're trying to accomplish. You describe your workflow in plain English. It generates the SKILL.md file with proper formatting.

Capture your exact process

The Q&A covers triggers, steps, outputs, and edge cases. Your skill reflects how you actually work, not some generic template.

Share with your team

Export your skill and hand it to colleagues. Everyone gets the same quality output because they're using your exact process.

Pros

  • Turn any repeatable workflow into a reusable skill
  • No coding or YAML knowledge required
  • Guided Q&A captures your exact process and preferences
  • Share skills with teammates for consistent quality
  • Modify and iterate on skills as your workflow evolves
  • Official Anthropic skill with best practices built in

Cons

  • Skills work best for structured, repeatable workflows with clear inputs and outputs
  • Complex multi-tool integrations may need manual SKILL.md editing
  • Generated skills reflect what you describe—unclear requirements produce unclear skills

How to Use Skill Creator Skill

Skill command:
1

Install the Skill

Install via the plugin marketplace, or download the skill file directly. Skills auto-activate when relevant—no manual invocation needed.

Option 1: Plugin Marketplace
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
Option 2: Direct Download
curl -o .claude/skills/skill-creator.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/main/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md
2

Start the Creator

Ask Claude to help you create a new skill. It will walk you through everything step by step.

Example Prompt
Help me create a new skill for my weekly status report workflow.
3

Describe What You Want

Answer Claude's questions about your workflow. What triggers it? What steps are involved? What does good output look like? Be specific about your preferences.

Example Prompt
I want a skill that reviews pull requests. It should check for security issues, missing tests, and code style. Output should be a markdown checklist with pass/fail for each item.
4

Review the Generated Skill

Claude shows you the complete SKILL.md file. Check that the instructions match your mental model. Ask for adjustments if something's off.

Example Prompt
Can you add a section about checking for hardcoded secrets? That's important for our security review.
5

Save and Use Your Skill

Export the skill to your .claude/skills folder. Now you can invoke it anytime with a slash command.

Example Prompt
/pr-review Check this PR against our standards

Example Prompts

Real-world scenarios showing how to use Skill Creator effectively

Scenario: Automate your weekly report

Your Prompt

/skill-creator I write a weekly status report every Friday. I need to summarize completed tasks from our project board, highlight blockers, and list next week's priorities. Output should be formatted for Slack.

Expected Outcome

Claude asks clarifying questions about your report format, then generates a skill that pulls the right info and formats it for Slack. Run it every Friday in 30 seconds.

Scenario: Standardize code reviews

Your Prompt

/skill-creator Our team reviews PRs inconsistently. I want a skill that checks for: test coverage, error handling, security issues, and documentation. It should output a checklist we can paste into GitHub.

Expected Outcome

Claude builds a PR review skill with your exact criteria. Every team member gets the same thorough review process.

Scenario: Create a data cleaning workflow

Your Prompt

/skill-creator I clean customer data exports every month. Remove duplicates, standardize phone numbers, validate emails, flag incomplete records. Output a cleaned CSV plus a summary of issues found.

Expected Outcome

Claude generates a data cleaning skill tailored to your specific rules. What used to take an hour now takes a minute.

Scenario: Build a meeting prep assistant

Your Prompt

/skill-creator Before client calls, I need to review their recent support tickets, check their usage metrics, and list any outstanding issues. Output should be bullet points I can scan in 2 minutes.

Expected Outcome

Claude creates a meeting prep skill that gathers exactly the context you need. Walk into every call prepared.

Scenario: Document your onboarding process

Your Prompt

/skill-creator New engineers ask the same questions. I want a skill that explains our repo structure, coding standards, PR process, and deployment workflow. Make it conversational so they can ask follow-ups.

Expected Outcome

Claude builds an onboarding skill that captures your institutional knowledge. New hires get consistent, thorough answers.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. The skill creator handles all formatting. You describe your workflow in plain English, and Claude generates the properly structured SKILL.md file. You can review and tweak the output, but no technical knowledge is required.
Skills are persistent and shareable. A prompt disappears after your conversation. A skill lives in your .claude folder, can be invoked with a slash command, and can be shared with your entire team. Skills also include metadata that helps Claude understand context and constraints.
Yes. Skills are just Markdown files. Open the SKILL.md file in any editor, make changes, and save. Or run the skill creator again and describe what you want different—it can modify existing skills.
Copy the SKILL.md file to a shared location—your team repo, a Dropbox folder, Slack. Teammates put it in their .claude/skills folder and can immediately use it. Everyone runs the same workflow.
Look for workflows you repeat at least weekly, have clear steps, and produce consistent outputs. Status reports, code reviews, data cleaning, meeting prep, documentation templates—anything where you find yourself saying "I always do it this way."
Yes. You can create skills that orchestrate other skills. For example, a "release prep" skill might invoke your PR review skill, changelog generator, and deployment checklist in sequence.

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