Skill Authoring

Skill Authoring is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by TencentCloudBase in CloudBase-AI-Toolkit.

1.1K stars134 forkson TencentCloudBase/CloudBase-AI-ToolkitAdded 2026/08/21Repository updated 2026/08/21

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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/TencentCloudBase/CloudBase-AI-Toolkit/tree/main/skills/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/TencentCloudBase/CloudBase-AI-Toolkit.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/skill-authoring/SKILL.md in TencentCloudBase/CloudBase-AI-Toolkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/skill-authoring
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Skill Authoring does

Skill Authoring helps create, refine, and evaluate reusable agent skills in SKILL.md format. Use it when designing triggers, structuring behavior, reviewing overlap, or testing whether a skill should trigger correctly.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Skill Authoring

Create and refine reusable agent skills with better trigger quality, cleaner structure, stronger behavioral guidance, and more reliable evaluation.

When to use this skill

Use this skill when you need to:

Create a new SKILL.md
Improve an existing skill's name or description
Review whether a skill is too broad, too narrow, or poorly structured
Audit a local skill collection such as config/source/skills for redundancy, trigger overlap, or weak boundaries
Split a large skill into SKILL.md plus references/, assets/, or scripts/
Design evaluation prompts and review whether a skill triggers and behaves correctly

Repo-managed CloudBase skill review

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

Frequently asked about Skill Authoring

What else does TencentCloudBase publish alongside Skill Authoring?
Skill Authoring is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from TencentCloudBase/CloudBase-AI-Toolkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Model Web, API Contract Review and Add Skill. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Skill Authoring does, and is maintained by TencentCloudBase in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the TencentCloudBase/CloudBase-AI-Toolkit page.
How does Skill Authoring compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Skill Authoring ranks #1310 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.