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Template Skill

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Basic template for creating new Claude skills with proper structure and metadata. Includes pre-configured YAML frontmatt

by Anthropic
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What Template Skill does

Basic template for creating new Claude skills with proper structure and metadata. Includes pre-configured YAML frontmatter with required name and description fields, placeholder markdown content area for instructions, and example structure for organizing skill documentation. Use this as a clean starting point when building custom skills from scratch, ensuring proper formatting and metadata compliance from the beginning. Ideal for rapid skill prototyping and maintaining consistency across your skill library.

How to install Template Skill

1. Install with the skills CLI

npx skills add --agent claude-code

2. Or install it manually

Download the skill folder and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects, or .claude/skills/ to scope it to one repo. Restart Claude Code so it picks up the new skill.

Anthropic's agentic coding CLI, and the reference implementation of Agent Skills. Drop a skill folder into ~/.claude/skills and Claude Code loads it automatically whenever a task matches the skill's description. Claude Code docs

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