Skill Authoring

by nimadorostkar

Skill Authoring is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by nimadorostkar in Claude-Skills-collection.

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Install Skill Authoring

Copy 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/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection/tree/main/skills/agent-tooling/skill-authoring ~/.claude/skills/skill-authoring

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/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/agent-tooling/skill-authoring/SKILL.md in nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/skill-authoring
Collection: One of 50 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Skill Authoring does

A guide for creating skills that trigger reliably and change an AI agent's behavior. Use when writing or debugging a skill, focusing on scoping, description writing, and progressive disclosure.

Skill Authoring is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Skill Authoring comes from a repository tagged ai, claude, claude-skills and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Write a skill that loads at the right time and materially changes the agent's behavior when it does. A skill that never triggers is dead weight; a skill that triggers constantly is a system prompt with extra steps.

When to Use

Creating a new skill.
A skill that does not activate when it should, or activates when it should not.
Converting a recurring prompt into a reusable capability.
Reviewing a skill before publishing it.

Capabilities

Scoping: what belongs in a skill and what does not.
Description writing, which is what determines triggering.
Structuring the body for an agent to act on.
Progressive disclosure through supporting files.
Testing that the skill triggers on real requests.

Inputs

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

Frequently asked about Skill Authoring

What else does nimadorostkar publish alongside Skill Authoring?
Skill Authoring is one of 50 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Design, Agent Design and Agent Instructions. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Skill Authoring does, and is maintained by nimadorostkar in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection page.
How does Skill Authoring compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Skill Authoring ranks #3603 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 Skill Authoring against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.