Can skills be shared with a team?

Yes, by placing skills in the .claude/skills/ directory within your project root, they can be committed to version control and shared with your team.

What is progressive disclosure in Claude Skills?

It is a 3-level system that allows Claude to scale to hundreds of skills by only loading metadata initially and loading deep instructions only when a skill is triggered.

What is a Claude Code Skill?

A Claude Code Skill is a specialized capability that provides domain-specific guidance and implementation patterns to help Claude perform tasks more effectively.

Where are personal skills stored?

Personal skills are stored in the ~/.claude/skills/ directory and are available across all your projects on the local machine.

What are the required fields for a skill?

Every skill requires a name (maximum 64 characters) and a description (maximum 1024 characters) within the YAML frontmatter of the SKILL.md file.

Claude Code Skill Builder

Name: Claude Code Skill Builder
Author: zellycloud

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Productivity & Workflow

Generates production-ready Claude Code Skills with standardized YAML frontmatter and progressive disclosure architecture.

Skill Builder is a specialized utility designed to streamline the creation and management of custom Claude Code Skills. It guides users through the specific requirements of the Claude Skills specification, including the mandatory 2-field YAML frontmatter, strict directory hierarchies, and the performance-optimized 3-level progressive disclosure system. Whether you are building personal productivity tools or team-wide project scaffolds, this skill ensures your extensions are autonomously discoverable and context-efficient for high-performance AI interactions.

Key Features

01Guided directory setup for personal and project-scoped skill locations

02Implements performance-optimized 3-level progressive disclosure architecture

03Automated generation of SKILL.md files with compliant YAML frontmatter

04Templates for scripts, resources, and advanced documentation organization

05Best-practice validation for skill names and trigger-based descriptions

060 GitHub stars

Use Cases

01Standardizing team-wide coding patterns through shared project-specific skills

02Creating custom automation workflows for specific development tasks

03Building high-performance skills that minimize AI context window usage

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add zellycloud/zyflow skill-builder

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

Download Skill