Creating Skills

by microsoft

Creating Skills is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in FluidFramework.

4.9K stars583 forkson microsoft/FluidFrameworkAdded 2026/07/19Repository updated 2026/08/06

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Install Creating Skills

Copy Creating 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/microsoft/FluidFramework/tree/main/.agency/plugins/nori/skills/creating-skills ~/.claude/skills/creating-skills

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/microsoft/FluidFramework.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .agency/plugins/nori/skills/creating-skills/SKILL.md in microsoft/FluidFramework
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/creating-skills
Collection: One of 31 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Creating Skills does

Guides through the process of creating custom skills for agent profiles, covering requirements gathering, directory structure, writing SKILL.md, and bundling scripts. Use when building reusable, persistent agent instructions.

Creating Skills is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Creating Skills comes from a repository tagged collaboration, crdt, datastructure, distributed and fluid.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Gather skill requirements from me
Select target profile
Create skill directory structure
Write SKILL.md with proper frontmatter
(Optional) Write and bundle scripts
Instruct the user to run /nori-switch-profile to switch profiles.

Overview

This skill guides you through creating custom skills that persist across sessions. Skills are stored in profile directories and can include markdown instructions, checklists, and optional bundled scripts.

Writing Skills

Every skill must start with a required checklist block:

<required>
*CRITICAL* Add the following steps to your Todo list using TodoWrite:
1. <step 1>
2. <step 2>
...
</required>

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

Commands Creating Skills provides

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

/nori-switch-profile

Frequently asked about Creating Skills

What else does microsoft publish alongside Creating Skills?
Creating Skills is one of 31 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/FluidFramework, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Changes Review, Brainstorming and Building UI/UX. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Creating Skills does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/FluidFramework page.
How does Creating Skills compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Creating Skills ranks #507 by stars among the 3670 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 Skills against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.