Guides the creation, optimization, and validation of specialized skills for the FTC Claude Marketplace.
The FTC Skill Builder is a meta-utility designed to help FIRST Tech Challenge teams develop high-quality, standardized skills for Claude Code and other AI coding agents. It provides comprehensive scaffolding, directory structures, and design patterns tailored specifically for robotics development, including hardware integration, library documentation, and autonomous pathing frameworks. By enforcing strict schemas for metadata and trigger-based descriptions, it ensures that custom skills for components like REV Hubs, Pinpoint odometry, or Pedro Pathing activate reliably and perform efficiently within token limits.
Key Features
012 GitHub stars
02Best practices for progressive disclosure and document linking
03Standardized scaffolding for new FTC skills and plugin structures
04Template patterns for FTC-specific hardware, libraries, and game logic
05Validation of plugin.json and marketplace.json schemas
06Specific guidance for writing effective skill activation triggers
Use Cases
01Scaffolding a new knowledge pack for custom robot hardware components
02Validating a plugin's structure before submitting a pull request to the community marketplace
03Improving the reliability of AI agent responses during complex autonomous programming tasks
