Skill Authoring

Skill Authoring is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by runkids in skillshare.

2.6K stars157 forkson runkids/skillshareAdded 2026/08/18+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/10

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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/runkids/skillshare/tree/main/website/blog ~/.claude/skills/blog

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/runkids/skillshare.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: website/blog/2026-02-26-write-your-first-skill.md in runkids/skillshare
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/blog
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Skill Authoring does

Skill Authoring walks through creating a SKILL.md file from scratch, auditing it, testing it, and sharing it with a team. Use it when you need to write custom instructions for AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Skills are just Markdown files with frontmatter. If you can write a README, you can write a skill. Here's how to create one from scratch, audit it, and share it.

What Is a Skill?

A skill is a SKILL.md file inside a named directory. It contains instructions that AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) load as context when working on your code.

my-skill/
└── SKILL.md

That's the minimum. The SKILL.md file has two parts: frontmatter (metadata) and body (the actual instructions).

Step 1: Scaffold with `skillshare new`

skillshare new my-code-review

This creates ~/.config/skillshare/skills/my-code-review/SKILL.md with a template:

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

Frequently asked about Skill Authoring

What else does runkids publish alongside Skill Authoring?
Skill Authoring is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from runkids/skillshare, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Changelog Generator, Clean and Implement Feature. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Skill Authoring does, and is maintained by runkids in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the runkids/skillshare page.
How does Skill Authoring compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Skill Authoring ranks #784 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.