Where are personal Claude skills stored?

Personal skills are stored in the ~/.claude/skills/ directory, making them available across all your local projects.

Can I share Claude Skills with my development team?

Yes, by placing skills in the .claude/skills/ directory at the project root and committing them to your git repository.

What is the benefit of progressive disclosure in Claude Skills?

It allows Claude to scale to hundreds of skills without hitting context limits by only loading metadata initially and fetching detailed instructions only when a skill is triggered.

What are the mandatory fields for a Claude Skill?

Every skill must have a SKILL.md file with a YAML frontmatter containing a 'name' (max 64 chars) and a 'description' (max 1024 chars).

Claude Skill Builder

Name: Claude Skill Builder
Author: while-basic

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Developer Tools

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

Skill Builder is a specialized utility designed to streamline the creation and organization of custom Claude Code Skills. It guides developers through building autonomous capabilities that Claude can discover and execute across CLI, web, and API interfaces. By enforcing the 3-level progressive disclosure system and standardized directory layouts, it ensures that custom skills are both context-efficient and easy to maintain, whether they are used for personal productivity or shared across development teams via version control.

Key Features

01Automated YAML frontmatter generation for skill discovery

02Implementation of 3-level progressive disclosure architecture

03Standardized directory scaffolding for personal and project skills

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05Template generation for multi-level documentation and resources

06Validation of required metadata and trigger-based descriptions

Use Cases

01Scaffolding new automation workflows for personal developer productivity

02Creating team-shared project skills for standardized repository operations

03Optimizing existing prompts into high-performance Claude Skills

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add while-basic/c-flow skill-builder

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

Download Skill