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Skill Creator

CATEGORY: DEVELOPMENTAUTHOR: @AnthropicUPDATED: Jan 19, 2026

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Comprehensive guide for creating effective Claude skills. Covers core principles including concise context usage, appropriate degrees of freedom, and progressive disclosure design. Explains skill anatomy with SKILL.md frontmatter/body structure and bundled resources (scripts, references, assets). Provides 6-step creation process: understanding with examples, planning contents, initializing, editing, packaging, and iterating.

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skillsdevelopmenttoolsworkflow

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