Writing Hive Skills

Writing Hive Skills is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by aden-hive in hive.

10.9K stars5.7K forkson aden-hive/hiveAdded 2026/08/15Repository updated 2026/08/13

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Install Writing Hive Skills

Copy Writing Hive Skills 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/aden-hive/hive/tree/main/core/framework/skills/_default_skills/writing-hive-skills ~/.claude/skills/writing-hive-skills

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/aden-hive/hive.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: core/framework/skills/_default_skills/writing-hive-skills/SKILL.md in aden-hive/hive
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/writing-hive-skills
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Writing Hive Skills does

Writing Hive Skills scaffolds a new Agent Skill for a Hive agent that conforms to the Agent Skills specification (SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter, optional scripts/references/assets directories). Use when the user asks to create, scaffold, add, or package a new skill for a Hive agent.

Writing Hive Skills is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Writing Hive Skills comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-framework, agent-skills, anthropic and automation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Operational Protocol: Writing Hive Skills

Hive agents discover skills by scanning several roots, in precedence order:

<project>/.hive/skills/ — project, Hive-specific
<project>/.agents/skills/ — project, cross-client
~/.hive/skills/ — user, Hive-specific
~/.agents/skills/ — user, cross-client
Framework defaults shipped in core/framework/skills/_default_skills/

Each skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md. At startup, only the frontmatter name + description of every skill is loaded; the body is loaded only when the agent activates the skill. Design for that.

Choosing where to put a new skill

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

Frequently asked about Writing Hive Skills

What else does aden-hive publish alongside Writing Hive Skills?
Writing Hive Skills is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from aden-hive/hive, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Background Job Control, Browser Edge Cases and Chart Creation Foundations. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Writing Hive Skills does, and is maintained by aden-hive in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the aden-hive/hive page.
How does Writing Hive Skills compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Writing Hive Skills ranks #379 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 Writing Hive Skills against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.