Skill Creator
Design and author DeepTutor skills (SKILL.md packages).
Install
npx skills add HKUDS/DeepTutor --skill skill-creator -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- HKUDS/DeepTutor53.6k
- Category
- Design
- Updated
- 4d ago
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context cost
- Lightabout 790 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Design and author DeepTutor skills (SKILL.md packages). Use when the user wants to create a new skill, improve an existing skill, or asks how skills work.
Skill Creator
Guidance for authoring effective DeepTutor skills.
What a skill is
A skill is a self-contained capability package: a SKILL.md playbook plus
optional references/ files. The system prompt only carries each skill's
name + description; the model fetches the full body with the read_skill
tool when a task matches. Skills teach procedural knowledge, workflows,
domain expertise, format conventions, that no model fully possesses.
Behaviour/voice presets (tone, teaching style) are NOT skills, those are personas, managed separately.
Anatomy
my-skill/
├── SKILL.md (required: frontmatter + instructions)
└── references/ (optional: docs loaded on demand via read_skill)
Frontmatter schema:
---
name: my-skill # lowercase, digits, hyphens; max 64 chars
description: One line stating WHAT it does and WHEN to use it.
tags: [tool] # optional, user-facing organisation
always: false # optional: eager-inject into every turn
requires: # optional availability gates
bins: [git] # host CLI binaries
env: [GITHUB_TOKEN] # environment variables
sandbox: shell # needs the shell execution sandbox
---
