---
name: Create Skill
slug: create-skill-4
category: AI Engineering
description: Create Skill is used when adding, updating, splitting, or reviewing reusable orchestrator skills for repeated procedures. It also covers controlled self-improvement of the orchestrator by moving durable behaviors into skills.
github: "https://github.com/prassanna-ravishankar/repowire/tree/main/daemon-go/cli/assets/orchestrator/.agents/skills/create-skill"
language: Go
stars: 260
forks: 34
install: "npx degit https://github.com/prassanna-ravishankar/repowire/tree/main/daemon-go/cli/assets/orchestrator/.agents/skills/create-skill ~/.claude/skills/create-skill"
installs_to: ~/.claude/skills/create-skill
source_path: daemon-go/cli/assets/orchestrator/.agents/skills/create-skill/SKILL.md
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category_size: 2631
collection_url: "https://dirskills.com/collections/prassanna-ravishankar/repowire"
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last_synced: 2026-09-02T05:20:18.598Z
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---

# Create Skill

Create Skill is used when adding, updating, splitting, or reviewing reusable orchestrator skills for repeated procedures. It also covers controlled self-improvement of the orchestrator by moving durable behaviors into skills.

**Install:**

```bash
npx degit https://github.com/prassanna-ravishankar/repowire/tree/main/daemon-go/cli/assets/orchestrator/.agents/skills/create-skill ~/.claude/skills/create-skill
```

## README

# Create Skill

Use a skill when a procedure is reusable, conditional, and too detailed for always-loaded `AGENTS.md`.

Do not add a skill for one-off status, a current project decision, a private user workflow, or a rule that belongs in `comms.md`, `projects.md`, memory, or a project-local agent file.

## Shape

Create `./.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` with required frontmatter:

```markdown
---
name: <name>
description: Use when ...
---

# <Title>
```

The description is the trigger surface. Make it concrete enough that an agent can load the skill only when relevant.

## Self-improvement loop

1. Identify the repeated failure or repeated procedure.
2. Decide whether the fix belongs in a skill, memory, board/process, docs, or code.
3. Add or update the smallest skill text that would change future behavior.
4. Keep examples generic unless the skill is explicitly local-only.
5. Validate install/update behavior if the skill is part of a shipped template.

## General versus local

Ship general mechanics: delegation, review cycles, durable jobs, handover, worktree isolation, cleanup.

Keep local-only: project-specific routing, named personal channels, account assumptions, private credentials, customer-specific policy, or personal release authority.

If a skill starts mixing both, split it: product-general guidance in the shipped skill, user-specific preferences in local memory or local-only skills.