Skill Authoring

by HezaoHezao

Skill Authoring is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by HezaoHezao in poirot.

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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/HezaoHezao/poirot/tree/master/poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/core/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/HezaoHezao/poirot.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/core/skill-authoring/SKILL.md in HezaoHezao/poirot
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/skill-authoring
Collection: One of 37 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Skill Authoring does

Guides the authoring of SKILL.md files for Poirot skills, covering required frontmatter, description standards, size limits, writing principles, and peer-matched structure. Use when creating or editing builtin or user-local skills.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Authoring Poirot Skills

Overview

A SKILL.md can live in two places:

Builtin (in-repo): poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/<category>/<name>/SKILL.md — committed, shipped with the package. Use write_file + git add.
User-local: skills/<name>/SKILL.md — personal, gitignored. Created via /skill install <path> or by writing directly.

This skill covers authoring for both, with emphasis on builtin skills.

When to Use

User asks you to add a skill "in this repo / commit"
You're committing a reusable workflow that should ship with Poirot
You're editing an existing skill under builtin_skills/

Required Frontmatter

Source of truth: poirot/backend/agents/skill/parser.py::parse_skill_file. Hard requirements:

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

Commands Skill Authoring provides

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

/skill

Frequently asked about Skill Authoring

What else does HezaoHezao publish alongside Skill Authoring?
Skill Authoring is one of 37 skills that DirSkills catalogs from HezaoHezao/poirot, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Academic Paper Review, ArXiv Research and Architecture Diagram. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Skill Authoring does, and is maintained by HezaoHezao in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the HezaoHezao/poirot page.
How does Skill Authoring compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Skill Authoring ranks #2229 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 Skill Authoring against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.