Skill Crafting

---
name: skill-crafting
description: |
  Create, edit, and refine agent skills through co-development and eval loops.
  Use for ANY question about skills or request to create/modify them.
triggers:
  # Direct invocations
  - skill-crafting
  - /skill
  - /skill-crafting
  # Create
  - create a skill
  - create skill
  - new skill
  - write a skill
  - write skill
  - build a skill
  - build skill
  - craft a skill
  - make a skill
  - add a skill
  # Edit / update
  - edit skill
  - update skill
  - modify skill
  - change skill
  - improve skill
  - refine skill
  - fix skill
  # Skill types
  - agent skill
  - claude skill
  - plugin skill
  - ai skill
  # Development process
  - skill development
  - developing skills
  - skill design
  - skill structure
  - skill format
  - skill spec
  - skill specification
  # Questions and capability discovery
  - how do I create a skill
  - how do I write a skill
  - how do I make a skill
  - how do skills work
  - how does a skill work
  - what is a skill
  - what makes a good skill
  - can I create a skill
  - can I make a skill
  - should I create a skill
  - what should a skill contain
  - skill best practices
  - skill triggers
  - skill frontmatter
---

# skill-crafting

Open `@references/guide.md` and follow it. Do not proceed without it.

Create effective agent skills through iterative co-development. The skill and its outputs improve together until outputs graduate to exemplars.

The guide contains:
- The co-development flywheel
- Bootstrapping without exemplars
- Eval loop mechanics
- Structure emergence
- Maturity signals