skill-authoring
Design, improve, and evaluate reusable agent skills with high-quality SKILL.md files, precise trigger descriptions, progressive disclosure, and testable behavior. This skill should be used when users ask to create a new skill, rewrite or review an existing skill, audit a skill collection such as `config/source/skills` for redundancy or overlap, improve skill trigger quality, organize skill references, or evaluate whether a skill should trigger and behave correctly.
npx skills add TencentCloudBase/CloudBase-AI-Toolkit --skill skill-authoring --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Skill Authoring Create and refine reusable agent skills with better trigger quality, cleaner structure, stronger behavioral guidance, and more reliable evaluation. ## When to use this skill Use this skill when you need to: - Create a new `SKILL.md` - Improve an existing skill's `name` or `description` - Review whether a skill is too broad, too narrow, or poorly structured - Audit a local skill collection such as `config/source/skills` for redundancy, trigger overlap, or weak boundaries - Split a large skill into `SKILL.md` plus `references/`, `assets/`, or `scripts/` - Design evaluation prompts and review whether a skill triggers and behaves correctly ## Repo-managed CloudBase skill review When the task targets `config/source/skills`, apply these guardrails in addition to the normal skill-authoring workflow: This section is the repo-managed CloudBase skill review baseline for this repository. - Keep frontmatter complete and normalized, including `version` - Keep examples inside the skill's declared platform and scope - Keep shared operational rules in one canonical source instead of copying large blocks across neighboring skills - If the skill claims a rule is mandatory, show tha
- When to use this skill
- Repo-managed CloudBase skill review
- How to use this skill (for a coding agent)
- Routing
- Quick workflow
- Minimum self-check
What does the skill-authoring skill do?
Design, improve, and evaluate reusable agent skills with high-quality SKILL.md files, precise trigger descriptions, progressive disclosure, and testable behavior. This skill should be used when users ask to create a new skill, rewrite or review an existing skill, audit a skill collection such as `config/source/skills` for redundancy or overlap, improve skill trigger quality, organize skill references, or evaluate whether a skill should trigger and behave correctly.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add TencentCloudBase/CloudBase-AI-Toolkit --skill skill-authoring --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From TencentCloudBase/CloudBase-AI-Toolkit, a repository with 1,066 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.