Skill Creator

This is meta tooling for building skills themselves. It walks you through the directory structure (user vs project scope, precedence rules), the anatomy of SKILL.md with its frontmatter and body, and when to use bundled resources like scripts, references, and assets. The core philosophy is progressive disclosure: keep metadata lean since it's always loaded, put essential instructions in SKILL.md (under 500 lines), and split detailed docs into reference files. Useful if you're creating skills regularly and want to understand the design patterns, though honestly most of this you'd pick up from reading a few existing skills. The emphasis on token efficiency and avoiding context bloat is the most practical takeaway.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add langchain-ai/deepagents --skill skill-creator --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Skill Creator

Skill Location for Deep Agents Code

Deep Agents Code loads skills from five sources, listed here from lowest to highest precedence:

#	Directory	Scope	Notes
0	`<package>/built_in_skills/`	Built-in	Ships with Deep Agents Code
1	`$DEEPAGENTS_HOME/<agent>/skills/`	User (deepagents alias)	Default for `dcode skills create`
2	`~/.agents/skills/`	User	Shared across agent tools
3	`.deepagents/skills/`	Project (deepagents alias)	Default for `dcode skills create --project`
4	`.agents/skills/`	Project	Shared across agent tools

<agent> is the agent configuration name (default: agent). When two directories contain a skill with the same name, the higher-precedence version wins — project skills override user skills, and any user or project skill overrides built-in skills.

Example directory layout:

$DEEPAGENTS_HOME/agent/skills/     # user skills (lowest precedence)
├── skill-name-1/
│   └── SKILL.md
└── ...

<project-root>/.deepagents/skills/   # project skills (higher precedence)
├── skill-name-2/
│   └── SKILL.md
└── ...