skills-guide

Knowledge bank for building Claude Code skills -- skill anatomy, SKILL.md authoring, frontmatter fields, progressive disclosure, design patterns, distribution, and troubleshooting. Triggers on: build a skill, create a skill, write a skill, SKILL.md, skill frontmatter, what goes in SKILL.md, skill not loading, my skill isn't working, skill not triggering, get started with skills, how do skills work, skill structure, skill folder, skill description, skill name, allowed-tools, disable-model-invocation, user-invocable, argument-hint, context fork, skill subagent, progressive disclosure, reference files, bundled resources, skill patterns, distribute skill, share skill, publish skill, install skill, personal skill, project skill, plugin skill, enterprise skill, skill-creator, skill conventions, skill best practices, what is a skill, local vs project skill, skill testing, skill debugging.

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Repository: nathanvale/side-quest-plugins
Last source activity: February 27, 2026 at 03:57
Detected SKILL.md language: English
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Grizzled 1920s city editor who runs every newsroom assignment in character. Greets the user as "Chief", confirms the angle in punchy newspaper slang, then orchestrates the right agents for the job. Currently handles investigation assignments (topic research across Reddit, X, and the web). Use when user asks "what are people saying about X", "best X recommendations", "what's the buzz around X", "X vs Y", "research X", "look into X", "find out about X", "has anyone tried X", "what's the latest on X", or any topic research query.

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design-guide

Dashboard and UI design knowledge bank with Tailwind CSS v4 patterns, dark-mode color systems, component anatomy, and 2026 design trends. Use when building dashboards, monitoring UIs, admin panels, or any Tailwind dark-mode interface. Triggers on: "dashboard", "dark mode", "design tokens", "metric cards", "status badges", "Tailwind patterns", "color palette", "design system", "observability UI", "monitoring dashboard", "event feed", "real-time UI", "virtual scrolling", "skeleton screen", "loading state", "shadcn-vue", "Vue dashboard", "WebSocket performance", "animation dashboard", "accessibility", "WCAG", "color blind", "screen reader", "aria-live", "focus management", "reduced motion", "DataTable", "Unovis charts", "shadcn theming", "Tailwind v4 migration", "chart library", "Unovis", "ApexCharts", "ECharts", "sparkline", "data visualization", "dashboard layout", "resizable panels", "Splitpanes", "Gridstack", "collapsible sidebar", "container queries", "CSS Grid dashboard", "drag to rearrange", "responsive d

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Knowledge bank for Claude Code hooks - event lifecycle, hook types, configuration, community patterns, best practices, and troubleshooting. Triggers on: claude code hooks, hook events, PreToolUse, PostToolUse, SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, hook configuration, settings.json hooks, auto-format hook, command hook, prompt hook, agent hook, hook not working, hook debug, PermissionRequest, SubagentStart, SubagentStop, Stop hook, PreCompact, SessionEnd.

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name	skills-guide
description	Knowledge bank for building Claude Code skills -- skill anatomy, SKILL.md authoring, frontmatter fields, progressive disclosure, design patterns, distribution, and troubleshooting. Triggers on: build a skill, create a skill, write a skill, SKILL.md, skill frontmatter, what goes in SKILL.md, skill not loading, my skill isn't working, skill not triggering, get started with skills, how do skills work, skill structure, skill folder, skill description, skill name, allowed-tools, disable-model-invocation, user-invocable, argument-hint, context fork, skill subagent, progressive disclosure, reference files, bundled resources, skill patterns, distribute skill, share skill, publish skill, install skill, personal skill, project skill, plugin skill, enterprise skill, skill-creator, skill conventions, skill best practices, what is a skill, local vs project skill, skill testing, skill debugging.
allowed-tools	Read, Glob, Grep

Claude Code Skills Guide -- Knowledge Bank

Authoritative guidance for building Claude Code skills, extracted from Anthropic's official documentation. This skill covers skill anatomy, authoring, design patterns, distribution, and troubleshooting.

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This skill draws from:

Anthropic's "Complete Guide to Building Skills for Claude" (Jan 2026)
Official Claude Code documentation at code.claude.com/docs/en/skills
Agent Skills open standard at agentskills.io

Reference files are the primary source. Community intel is opt-in via /newsroom:investigate -- see Community Perspective below.

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This skill does NOT maintain a community intel cache. Instead, it can hand off to /newsroom:investigate for live community signal when the user wants inspiration or real-world examples.

Intent	Trigger Signals	Reference File
Getting Started	get started, what is a skill, how do skills work, first skill, simplest skill, new to skills, skill basics	fundamentals.md
Skill Structure	SKILL.md, frontmatter, folder structure, anatomy, progressive disclosure, reference files, bundled resources, scripts directory, what goes in	fundamentals.md
Authoring	write a skill, create a skill, build a skill, skill description, skill name, naming rules, writing guidelines, degrees of freedom, how to write, content strategy	authoring.md
Design Patterns	pattern, advanced, dynamic context, subagent, context fork, code execution, visual output, multiple frameworks, domain-specific, conditional	patterns.md
Distribution	share, distribute, publish, install, personal vs project, where to put, plugin skill, enterprise, managed settings, local skill, monorepo, GitHub hosting, installation guide, API skills, positioning, open standard	distribution.md
Testing	test skill, smoke test, validate skill, triggering test, does it trigger, iteration, undertriggering, overtriggering, skill-creator review	testing.md
Troubleshooting	not loading, not triggering, isn't working, broken, debug, error, triggers too often, too many skills, context budget, skill not found	troubleshooting.md
MCP Builders	MCP server, MCP skill, connector, integration, skill on top of MCP, MCP workflow, MCP enhancement, tool access	mcp-builders.md

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Claude Code Skills Guide -- Knowledge Bank

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Claude Code Skills Guide -- Knowledge Bank

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Step 2: Read Reference Files

Step 3: Synthesize Answer

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Examples

Example 1: Getting Started

Example 2: Frontmatter Question

Example 3: Troubleshooting

Example 4: Community Perspective

Example 5: Cross-Skill Boundary

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Claude Code Skills Guide -- Knowledge Bank

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Community Perspective (Opt-In)

Claude Code Skills Guide -- Knowledge Bank

Source Authority

Community Perspective (Opt-In)

Step 1: Classify the Question

Step 2: Read Reference Files

Step 3: Synthesize Answer

Response Structure

For Getting Started Questions

For Structure/Frontmatter Questions

For Authoring Questions

For Pattern Questions

For Distribution Questions

For Troubleshooting Questions

Response Guidelines

Examples

Example 1: Getting Started

Example 2: Frontmatter Question

Example 3: Troubleshooting

Example 4: Community Perspective

Example 5: Cross-Skill Boundary