Guide for creating effective Agent Skills in Claude Code. This skill should be used when users want to create a new Skill (or update an existing Skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations. Use when working specifically with Claude Code's Skills system.
How to install claude-code-skills?
emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/claude-code-skills
$npx -y skills add emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins --skill claude-code-skillsInstalls into the current project.
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Run `npx skills use "https://github.com/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins" --skill "emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/claude-code-skills"` and follow the generated skill instructions now. Read its complete output, redirecting it to a temporary file first if necessary. Resolve relative paths from the supporting-files directory it provides.
Use the skills in "https://github.com/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.
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