Skill Creator
Create, edit, improve, or audit skills for SwarmClaw agents.
Install
npx skills add swarmclawai/swarmclaw --skill skill-creator -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- swarmclawai/swarmclaw703
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 4mo ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Lightabout 1,310 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Create, edit, improve, or audit skills for SwarmClaw agents. Use when creating a new skill from scratch or when asked to improve, review, audit, tidy up, or clean up an existing skill or SKILL.md file. Also use when editing or restructuring a skill directory. Triggers on phrases like "create a skill", "author a skill", "tidy up a skill", "improve this skill", "review the skill", "clean up the skill", "audit the skill".
Skill Creator
Guidance for creating effective skills that extend SwarmClaw agent capabilities.
About Skills
Skills are modular, self-contained packages that provide specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. They transform a general-purpose agent into a specialized one equipped with procedural knowledge that no model can fully possess.
What Skills Provide
- Specialized workflows, multi-step procedures for specific domains
- Tool integrations, instructions for working with specific file formats or APIs
- Domain expertise, company-specific knowledge, schemas, business logic
- Bundled resources, scripts, references, and assets for complex and repetitive tasks
Core Principles
Concise is Key
The context window is a shared resource. Only add context the agent doesn't already have. Challenge each piece of information: "Does the agent really need this explanation?" Prefer concise examples over verbose explanations.
Set Appropriate Degrees of Freedom
- High freedom (text instructions): Multiple valid approaches, context-dependent decisions
- Medium freedom (pseudocode/parameterized scripts): Preferred pattern exists, some variation OK
- Low freedom (specific scripts): Fragile operations, consistency critical, exact sequence required
Anatomy of a Skill
skill-name/
├── SKILL.md (required)
│ ├── YAML frontmatter (name + description, required)
│ └── Markdown instructions (required)
└── Bundled Resources (optional)
├── scripts/, Executable code (Python/Bash/etc.)
├── references/, Documentation loaded into context as needed
└── assets/, Files used in output (templates, icons, fonts)
Frontmatter
name: Skill name (hyphen-case, lowercase)description: Primary triggering mechanism. Include what the skill does AND when to use it. All "when to use" info goes here, not in the body.
