Create Skill

Create Skill is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by maxritter in pilot-shell.

2K stars172 forkson maxritter/pilot-shellAdded 2026/08/18+11% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/17

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Install Create Skill

Copy Create Skill 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/maxritter/pilot-shell/tree/main/docs/docusaurus/docs/workflows ~/.claude/skills/workflows

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/maxritter/pilot-shell.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: docs/docusaurus/docs/workflows/create-skill.md in maxritter/pilot-shell
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/workflows
Collection: One of 2 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Create Skill does

Create Skill builds reusable skills for Claude Code and Codex from any topic, exploring the codebase and drafting SKILL.md interactively.

Create Skill is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Create Skill comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-assistant, ai-coding, ai-coding-tools and ai-engineering.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/create-skill

Build a reusable skill from any topic.

Provide a topic or workflow description, and /create-skill explores the codebase, gathers relevant patterns, and builds a well-structured skill interactively with you. If no topic is given, it evaluates the current session for extractable knowledge.

# Claude Code
claude
> /create-skill
> /create-skill "Vue 3 test migration pattern"
> /create-skill "How we set up MFE local development"

# Codex CLI
codex
> $create-skill
> $create-skill "Vue 3 test migration pattern"
> $create-skill "How we set up MFE local development"

What /create-skill Does

6 phases:

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

Commands Create Skill provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/create-skill

Frequently asked about Create Skill

What else does maxritter publish alongside Create Skill?
Create Skill is one of 2 skills that DirSkills catalogs from maxritter/pilot-shell, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Claude Config Library. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Create Skill does, and is maintained by maxritter in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the maxritter/pilot-shell page.
How does Create Skill compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Create Skill ranks #871 by stars among the 2451 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 Create Skill against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.