skill-creator
Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
Why use this skill?
Learn how to build custom OpenClaw skills. Create modular, context-aware instructions and workflows to specialize Claude for your specific domain and tasks.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ljglover/skill-creator-0-1-0What This Skill Does
The skill-creator is the foundational tool for expanding OpenClaw AI's capabilities. It acts as a comprehensive framework that helps users design, structure, and implement custom skills. By following the standardized OpenClaw pattern—centered around the SKILL.md file—this skill ensures that your custom instructions, workflows, and tool integrations are modular, efficient, and context-aware. It enforces best practices like token economy, proper degrees of freedom, and directory structure, allowing you to transform a general-purpose model into a domain-specific expert.
Installation
To integrate this utility, run the following command in your terminal:
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ljglover/skill-creator-0-1-0
Use Cases
- Domain Expertise Encoding: Use this to bundle specific company style guides, proprietary coding patterns, or internal product schemas into a reusable skill.
- Complex Workflow Automation: Create multi-step procedures where Claude needs to follow rigid sequences, such as CI/CD deployment steps or specific data processing pipelines.
- Standardizing Agent Behavior: If your team uses Claude for repeated tasks, create a skill to ensure everyone receives consistent, high-quality, and compliant output.
- Tool Orchestration: Wrap external API interactions or script execution flows into a single, easy-to-invoke command.
Example Prompts
- "I want to build a skill for writing technical documentation that follows our company's specific style guide. How should I structure the SKILL.md and what assets should I include?"
- "Help me refine the degrees of freedom for this SQL query generator skill. I want to balance flexibility for complex joins while keeping the syntax consistent."
- "Review my draft SKILL.md for a project management tool. Is there too much redundant information that might waste tokens?"
Tips & Limitations
- Token Economy: Always ask, "Does Claude already know this?" If the information is standard knowledge, don't include it in your skill.
- Degrees of Freedom: Match the restriction level to the risk. If an operation is fragile, use low-freedom scripts; if the task is creative, use high-freedom text prompts.
- Hierarchy: Keep documentation modular. If a skill becomes too large, consider breaking it into multiple, smaller, interconnected skills to keep the context window clear.
Metadata
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{
"plugins": {
"official-ljglover-skill-creator-0-1-0": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}