OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring

OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by inkeep in open-knowledge.

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Install OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring

Copy OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring 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/inkeep/open-knowledge/tree/main/packages/server/assets/skills/write-skill ~/.claude/skills/write-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/inkeep/open-knowledge.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: packages/server/assets/skills/write-skill/SKILL.md in inkeep/open-knowledge
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/write-skill
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring does

OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring guides the creation of Agent Skills (SKILL.md files) by checking existing skills, resolving scope, and structuring progressive-disclosure instructions. Use it when writing a new skill for OpenKnowledge or an editor.

OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring comes from a repository tagged 2nd-brain, agent-skills, claude, codex and company-brain.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Writing an OpenKnowledge skill

You are helping the user author an Agent Skill — a SKILL.md file (plus optional references/ and scripts/) that teaches an AI agent how to do a recurring task. In OpenKnowledge a skill is a first-class, versioned, installable artifact: you author it with the write / edit skill verbs, then install it into the user's editors.

Skills earn their keep by being recognized at the right moment and followed faithfully. Most of the craft is in two places: a description that triggers reliably, and a body short and concrete enough that the agent actually does what it says. Work the stages below in order, but jump to where the user already is.

Stage 1 — Capture intent and classify the skill

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

Frequently asked about OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring

What else does inkeep publish alongside OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring?
OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from inkeep/open-knowledge, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Codebase Wiki, Consolidate Notes and Frame a Proposal. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring does, and is maintained by inkeep in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the inkeep/open-knowledge page.
How does OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring compare to other AI Engineering skills?
OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring ranks #607 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 OpenKnowledge Skill Authoring against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.