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A starter template for creating new Claude Skills with best practices and example structure
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Maintains versions of skills, prompts, or documents. Provides version tagging, release management, changelogs, and rollback capabilities. Tracks changes to SKILL.md files, scripts, and resources using git-based version control with semantic versioning.
Maintains versions of skills, prompts, or documents. Provides version tagging, release management, changelogs, and rollback capabilities. Tracks changes to SKILL.md files, scripts, and resources using git-based version control with semantic versioning.
Retrieves and analyzes content from user-provided URLs or search results using the WebFetch tool. Manages domain filtering and max_uses limits to prevent data exfiltration. Use when users provide URLs to fetch, when analyzing web pages, or when following up on search results.
Process and analyze PDF documents including text extraction, table extraction, chart analysis, and visual content understanding. Use when working with PDFs, extracting structured data, generating summaries, or converting PDFs to other formats (markdown, JSON, CSV).
Analyzes and processes images using Claude's vision capabilities. Supports OCR, image classification, diagram comparison, chart analysis, visual Q&A, and more. Use when users need to understand, extract, or analyze visual content.
Condenses long documents, conversation logs, or transcripts into concise summaries. Supports retrieval from memory/files, multiple output formats (bullet points, paragraphs, executive summary), and customizable detail levels. Use when the user needs to quickly understand large amounts of text content.
| name | template-skill |
| description | A starter template for creating new Claude Skills with best practices and example structure |
This is a starter template for building your own Claude Skills. Use this as a foundation for creating custom tools that extend Claude's capabilities.
This skill demonstrates the proper structure and format for Claude Skills, including:
Use this skill as a reference when:
template-skill/
├── SKILL.md # Main skill definition (this file)
├── scripts/
│ ├── helper.py # Python helper script
│ └── utilities.sh # Bash utilities
├── references/
│ └── best-practices.md # Supporting documentation
└── assets/
├── templates/ # Template files
└── examples/ # Example data
When you activate this skill, Claude will:
scripts/ directory when appropriatereferences/ directory for detailed informationassets/ directory to structure outputsWhen you want to use this skill, simply activate it and describe your task:
Activate the template-skill and help me create a new custom skill for handling batch data processing.
Use the template-skill to generate a skill that integrates with our internal API and follows our team's coding standards.
Based on the template-skill structure, help me create a skill that automates our documentation workflow.
This skill includes the following helper files:
For questions about creating skills or issues with this template:
references/best-practices.mdscripts/ directory