New Skill Checklist

New Skill Checklist is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by agent-sh in agentsys.

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Install New Skill Checklist

Copy New Skill Checklist 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/agent-sh/agentsys/tree/main/checklists ~/.claude/skills/checklists

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/agent-sh/agentsys.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: checklists/new-skill.md in agent-sh/agentsys
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/checklists
Collection: One of 2 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What New Skill Checklist does

New Skill Checklist explains how to add a new skill with the required directory, metadata, and agent tool settings. Use it when creating or validating a skill file, plugin skill directory, or compliance checklist.

New Skill Checklist is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. New Skill Checklist comes from a repository tagged agent, ai, anthropic, automation and autonomous-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Directory name MUST match skill name - The parent directory name MUST equal the name field in SKILL.md frontmatter
- Directory: skills/my-skill/SKILL.md → name: my-skill
- NOT: skills/something-else/SKILL.md → name: my-skill (INVALID)
name field - REQUIRED
- Max 64 characters
- Lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only
- Pattern: ^[a-z0-9-]{1,64}$

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

Commands New Skill Checklist provides

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

/enhance

Frequently asked about New Skill Checklist

What else does agent-sh publish alongside New Skill Checklist?
New Skill Checklist is one of 2 skills that DirSkills catalogs from agent-sh/agentsys, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Maintain Cross-Platform Architecture. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way New Skill Checklist does, and is maintained by agent-sh in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the agent-sh/agentsys page.
How does New Skill Checklist compare to other Automation skills?
New Skill Checklist ranks #856 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 New Skill Checklist against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.