Creating Skills

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

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

What Creating Skills does

Creating Skills helps you write new Claude Code skills or improve existing ones with clear structure, discoverability, and examples. Use it when a technique needs to be reusable, scannable, and easy for Claude to find and apply.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Creating Skills

Overview

Skills are reference guides for proven techniques, patterns, or tools. Write them to help future Claude instances quickly find and apply effective approaches.

Skills must be discoverable (Claude can find them), scannable (quick to evaluate), and actionable (clear examples).

Core principle: Default assumption is Claude is already very smart. Only add context Claude doesn't already have.

When to Use

Create a skill when:

Technique wasn't intuitively obvious
Pattern applies broadly across projects
You'd reference this again
Others would benefit

Don't create for:

One-off solutions specific to single project
Standard practices well-documented elsewhere
Project conventions (put those in .claude/CLAUDE.md)

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

Frequently asked about Creating Skills

What else does AgentWorkforce publish alongside Creating Skills?
Creating 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 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 Skills compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Creating Skills ranks #1610 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 Skills against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.