
Skill Development
If you're building skills for Claude Code, this is meta but practical. It walks you through the structure and purpose of skills themselves: how they work as modular onboarding guides, what makes them effective, and how to package specialized workflows, tool integrations, and domain expertise. Originally from the official anthropics/claude-code repository and maintained by davila7, it's essentially documentation turned into a skill. Use it when you're creating your own skills and need a reference for best practices and anatomy. It won't write skills for you, but it gives Claude the context to help you structure them properly.
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- last updated
- Aug 21, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill 'Skill Development' --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
Files
Skill Creator
A skill for creating new skills and iteratively improving them.
At a high level, the process of creating a skill goes like this:
- Decide what you want the skill to do and roughly how it should do it
- Write a draft of the skill
- Create a few test prompts and run claude-with-access-to-the-skill on them
- Help the user evaluate the results both qualitatively and quantitatively
- While the runs happen in the background, draft some quantitative evals if there aren't any (if there are some, you can either use as is or modify if you feel something needs to change about them). Then explain them to the user (or if they already existed, explain the ones that already exist)
- Use the
eval-viewer/generate_review.pyscript to show the user the results for them to look at, and also let them look at the quantitative metrics
- Rewrite the skill based on feedback from the user's evaluation of the results (and also if there are any glaring flaws that become apparent from the quantitative benchmarks)
- Repeat until you're satisfied
- Expand the test set and try again at larger scale
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Details
- Repository
- github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates
- First seen
- Jun 3, 2026
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