creating-skills
Create Effective AI Skills
AI skills can become difficult to discover, scan, and apply consistently. This guide provides structures, examples, optimization methods, and review checklists for effective skill authoring.
Install with my Agent
Copy this request to your Agent. It includes the canonical Skill page and manifest.
Review the Skillstore skill "creating-skills" from https://skillstore.io/skills/agentworkforce-creating-skills.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/agentworkforce-creating-skills/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.Your Agent should still show its plan and request any confirmation required by the security policy.
Agent-readable resources
Use these links when an AI agent, crawler, or script needs clean context instead of reading the full page.
Test it
Using "creating-skills". Create a skill for debugging flaky browser tests.
Expected outcome:
- A gerund-based name and a description with specific failure triggers.
- A concise workflow that replaces arbitrary delays with condition checks.
- One practical example, common mistakes, and verification steps.
Using "creating-skills". Review a skill description that only says it helps with testing.
Expected outcome:
The revised description identifies flaky tests, race conditions, and inconsistent results. It also states that the skill provides condition-based waiting patterns.
Using "creating-skills". Reduce a long skill with several reference sections.
Expected outcome:
The main guide keeps triggers, workflow, and frequent operations. Detailed references move into clearly named supporting files with direct links.
Security Audit
SafeAll 41 static findings are false positives caused by Markdown fences, inline code, a benign shell example, and ordinary instructional prose. SKILL.md contains no command execution, reconnaissance behavior, prompt injection, exfiltration intent, or other semantic security concern.
Risk Factors
⚙️ External commands (38)
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<iframe src="https://skillstore.io/embed/skills/agentworkforce-creating-skills.html" title="Skillstore Security Assessment" sandbox="allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox" loading="lazy" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" width="420" height="180"></iframe>Academic citations (APA · BibTeX · CFF)
APA citation
AgentWorkforce. (2026). creating-skills security audit report (audit version 9) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/agentworkforce-creating-skills/audits/9BibTeX citation
@techreport{agentworkforce-agentworkforce-creating-skills-2026,
author = {AgentWorkforce},
title = {creating-skills security audit report (audit version 9)},
institution = {Skillstore},
year = {2026},
number = {9},
url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/agentworkforce-creating-skills/audits/9},
note = {Author version unspecified}
}CITATION.cff
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this Skill, cite its author and this versioned security audit report."
title: "creating-skills security audit report (audit version 9)"
version: "unspecified"
type: report
authors:
- name: "AgentWorkforce"
date-released: "2026-07-23"
url: "https://skillstore.io/skills/agentworkforce-creating-skills/audits/9"
identifiers:
- type: other
value: "skillstore:agentworkforce-creating-skills:audit:9"
description: "Skillstore immutable audit report identifier"
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Skillstore Score
Why this score Evidence Confidence: HighWhat You Can Build
Create a First Skill
Build a focused skill with discoverable metadata, practical examples, and a clear review checklist.
Improve an Existing Skill
Review a skill for vague triggers, excessive detail, weak examples, and difficult navigation.
Standardize a Skill Library
Apply consistent naming, structure, cross-references, and quality checks across many skills.
Try These Prompts
Create a new skill for [topic]. Include valid frontmatter, an overview, usage triggers, one practical example, common mistakes, and a review checklist.
Review the attached SKILL.md for discovery, clarity, structure, and token efficiency. Return prioritized revisions with brief reasons.
Improve this skill description for search discovery. Preserve its scope, use third person, and include specific triggers, symptoms, technologies, and outcomes.
Refactor this complex skill using progressive disclosure. Separate essential guidance from heavy references, preserve practical examples, and add validation, error handling, and rollback checks.
Best Practices
- Use specific triggers, symptoms, technologies, and outcomes in the description.
- Prefer one complete practical example over several shallow examples.
- Test skills with realistic scenarios and remove guidance that does not improve results.
Avoid
- Do not create skills for one-time fixes or standard information documented elsewhere.
- Do not use vague names, first-person descriptions, or descriptions without usage triggers.
- Do not bury essential workflows in long narratives, deep references, or unnecessary language variants.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Developer Details
Author
AgentWorkforceLicense
MIT
Skillstore revision
r2
Version notice
The author did not declare a version.
Ref
31bc7611b504c197d3e993aef7943461c871616f
Maintenance freshness
7/26/2026
Usage
8 downloads · 288 views
File structure
📄 SKILL.md