creating-skills
Create, validate, and iteratively improve agent skills that follow Anthropic's best practices. Use this skill whenever someone wants to create a new skill, improve an existing skill, write a SKILL.md, set up a skill directory structure, or needs guidance on skill authoring patterns. Also triggers when users mention "cu Published by microsoft in upgrade-agent-plugins.
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Writing, Includes SKILL.md, Reusable instructions
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What is creating-skills?
Create, validate, and iteratively improve agent skills that follow Anthropic's best practices. Use this skill whenever someone wants to create a new skill, improve an existing skill, write a SKILL.md, set up a skill directory structure, or needs guidance on skill authoring patterns. Also triggers when users mention "cu Published by microsoft in upgrade-agent-plugins. This profile combines repository metadata with install, compatibility, and usage signals so developers can quickly decide whether it fits their agent workflow before opening the source repository.
Automated repository signals based on public metadata such as recency, license, installation evidence, and adoption. These are not a security audit or endorsement. See how SkillIndex evaluates profiles.
Key capabilities
- Includes SKILL.md support
- Reusable instructions support
- Writing
- Writing use cases
Declared skill metadata
- Source file: plugins/upgrade-agent/upgrade/skills/generic/creating-skills/SKILL.md
These fields retain source and confidence evidence from the indexed SKILL.md.
Compatibility and setup
- Install or run with Copy skill directory
When to use creating-skills
- Use it for writing.
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Source
- Creator: microsoft
- Repository: microsoft/upgrade-agent-plugins
- Skill file: plugins/upgrade-agent/upgrade/skills/generic/creating-skills/SKILL.md
What it does
Create, validate, and iteratively improve agent skills that follow Anthropic's best practices. Use this skill whenever someone wants to create a new skill, improve an existing skill, write a SKILL.md, set up a skill directory structure, or needs guidance on skill authoring patterns. Also triggers when users mention "cu
Skill instructions
Creating Skills — Author, Validate, Improve This skill guides you through producing agent skills that follow Anthropic's official best practices. It enforces an iterative loop: draft → validate → improve → re-validate, until the skill meets all quality criteria. When to read additional files - First time authoring or need the full checklist? → Read references/quality-checklist.md - Need to validate an existing skill? → Read references/validation-rules.md - Run automated checks? → scripts/validateskill.ps1 (Windows) or scripts/validateskill.sh (Linux/macOS) - Want a blank starting point? → Read templates/SKILL-TEMPLATE.md - Need to understand the principles behind these rules? → Read references/anthropic-best-practices.md --- The Core Loop Every skill goes through this cycle. Your job is to figure out where the user is and help them progress. 0. Discover — scan for existing skills that overlap. 1. Capture intent — understand what the skill should do. 2. Draft — write SKILL.md + director
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Frequently asked questions
What is creating-skills?
creating-skills is a open-source AI agent skill with Copy skill directory. Create, validate, and iteratively improve agent skills that follow Anthropic's best practices.
Who is creating-skills best for?
creating-skills is best for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references, writing workflows.
How do I install creating-skills?
Install or run creating-skills using Copy skill directory. Check creating-skills for the latest setup command.
Is creating-skills actively maintained?
creating-skills may need a closer maintenance check before production use.
Project health auto-fetched from the source repository.
Maintain this resource?
Review this source-backed profile, send a correction with evidence, or link to it from your documentation. Claims verify your relationship to the project; profile facts still require source evidence and editorial review.
