Creating Agent Skills

Creating Agent Skills is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by AgentWorkforce in relay.

801 stars64 forkson AgentWorkforce/relayAdded 2026/08/23+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/22

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Install Creating Agent Skills

Copy Creating Agent Skills 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/AgentWorkforce/relay/tree/main/.agents/skills/creating-agent-skills-skill ~/.claude/skills/creating-agent-skills-skill

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/AgentWorkforce/relay.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/creating-agent-skills-skill/SKILL.md in AgentWorkforce/relay
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/creating-agent-skills-skill
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Creating Agent Skills does

Creating Agent Skills explains the SKILL.md format for portable agent capabilities across Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot, and Amp. Use it when authoring skills with the required frontmatter, directory structure, and validation rules.

Creating Agent Skills is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Creating Agent Skills comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-collaboration, agent-communication, agent-skills and agentic-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Tool	Location
Codex CLI	`.agents/skills/{skill-name}/SKILL.md`
GitHub Copilot	`.github/skills/{skill-name}/SKILL.md`
Amp	`.agents/skills/{skill-name}/SKILL.md`

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

Frequently asked about Creating Agent Skills

What else does AgentWorkforce publish alongside Creating Agent Skills?
Creating Agent Skills is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from AgentWorkforce/relay, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Relay, Agent Relay and Animation Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Creating Agent Skills does, and is maintained by AgentWorkforce in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the AgentWorkforce/relay page.
How does Creating Agent Skills compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Creating Agent Skills ranks #1606 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 Creating Agent Skills against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.