# Skill Creator

Create, edit, evaluate, and optimize skills, including benchmarking and description...

- Repository: https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio (53164 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: AGPL-3.0
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio --skill skill-creator -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio --skill skill-creator -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio --skill skill-creator -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio --skill skill-creator -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Create, edit, evaluate, and optimize skills, including benchmarking and description tuning for better triggering.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

## Cherry Studio workflow (READ FIRST, overrides packaging / install steps below)

You are running inside Cherry Studio. Skills live in a managed registry that Cherry
keeps in sync with the filesystem automatically, there is **no** install or register
tool to call, and you should **ignore** any `package_skill.py` / `.skill` packaging
steps mentioned later in this file (they apply to Claude Code / Claude.ai, not here).

**To create a new skill, write it straight into Cherry's managed skills directory:**

1. Resolve the directory once by running `echo "$CHERRY_STUDIO_SKILLS_DIR"` in Bash.
   That folder is Cherry's managed skill library.
2. Create `$CHERRY_STUDIO_SKILLS_DIR/<skill-folder-name>/` and write `SKILL.md` plus any
   supporting files (`scripts/`, `references/`, `assets/`) into it with your normal file
   tools.
3. That's it. Cherry's skill sync detects the new directory, registers it in the catalog,
   and lists it in the app, no register step. You can re-edit the files in place at any
   time and the changes are picked up on the next sync.

Use a lowercase, hyphenated `<skill-folder-name>` (e.g. `my-cool-skill`). The `name:`
field inside your `SKILL.md` frontmatter must match the folder name and use only
lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens (e.g. `name: my-cool-skill` with folder
`my-cool-skill`), per the Agent Skills spec, it is not a free-form display name.

Eval / test workspaces (`<skill-name>-workspace/`, `iteration-*/`, etc.) from the
evaluation loop described below must be created **outside** that skills directory, e.g. as a sibling under the user's workspace, so they don't get bundled into the
skill. The evaluation loop itself still applies; only the packaging and install
mechanics change.

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# 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:

The rest: https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/blob/HEAD/resources/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md