Agent Skill Authoring

Agent Skill Authoring is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by matlab in agent-skills-playground.

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Install Agent Skill Authoring

Copy Agent Skill Authoring into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/matlab/agent-skills-playground/tree/main/demos/engineering-an-agent-skill/skills/agent-skill-author ~/.claude/skills/agent-skill-author

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/matlab/agent-skills-playground.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: demos/engineering-an-agent-skill/skills/agent-skill-author/SKILL.md in matlab/agent-skills-playground
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/agent-skill-author
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3475 skills

What Agent Skill Authoring does

Agent Skill Authoring helps you design, scope, and refine a SKILL.md using an empirical, test-first process. Use it when building a new skill or fixing an existing one that fails in consistent, subtle ways.

Agent Skill Authoring is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Agent Skill Authoring comes from a repository tagged agent-skill, agent-skills, agentic-ai, agents and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Authoring an Agent Skill

You are helping a user author or improve an Agent Skill. Skills are markdown files an agent loads to handle domain-specific work it would otherwise get wrong. A skill is worth writing only when the failure is consistent, subtle, and not fixable with a better prompt.

Follow the five-stage process below. Do not skip stages.

Stage 1: Probe for real failures

Before designing anything, find out what the agent actually gets wrong.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Agent Skill Authoring

What else does matlab publish alongside Agent Skill Authoring?
Agent Skill Authoring is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from matlab/agent-skills-playground, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Embedded AI Deployment, MATLAB AI Policy and MATLAB AI Tutor Setup Guide. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Agent Skill Authoring does, and is maintained by matlab in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the matlab/agent-skills-playground page.
How does Agent Skill Authoring compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Agent Skill Authoring ranks #3170 by stars among the 3475 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Agent Skill Authoring against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.