// Scaffold new Agent Skills with best-practice structure and frontmatter. Use when the user wants to create a new skill, bootstrap a skill directory, or generate SKILL.md boilerplate following the Agent Skills spec.
| name | skill-template |
| description | Scaffold new Agent Skills with best-practice structure and frontmatter. Use when the user wants to create a new skill, bootstrap a skill directory, or generate SKILL.md boilerplate following the Agent Skills spec. |
| license | MIT |
| compatibility | Node.js 22+ |
| metadata | {"author":"skillscraft","version":"1.0","category":"tooling"} |
| allowed-tools | Bash Read Write |
Activate when the user wants to:
node scripts/scaffold.js --name <skill-name> --desc "<description>" [--dirs scripts,references,assets,tests]
If the user is unsure what they need, ask these questions in order:
description fieldscripts/ with a starter scriptreferences/ with a templateassets/tests/scenarios.jsonallowed-toolscompatibilityAfter scaffolding, always validate:
skill validate <output-dir>/SKILL.md
skill lint <output-dir>/SKILL.md
Fix any issues before the user starts editing.
Skill names must:
^[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?$Valid: code-review, test-gen, my-skill-v2
Invalid: Code-Review, -bad-start, has_underscores, UPPERCASE
<skill-name>/
SKILL.md # Always created
scripts/ # If --dirs includes scripts
run.sh # Starter bash script
references/ # If --dirs includes references
GUIDE.md # Template reference doc
assets/ # If --dirs includes assets
.gitkeep # Placeholder
tests/ # If --dirs includes tests
scenarios.json # Empty test scenarios array
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