skill-creator

Overview

skill-creator is the built-in meta-skill for designing, scaffolding, validating, and packaging new skills.

It is the canonical reference in this repository for how skills should be structured.

Repo path

skills/skill-creator/
├── SKILL.md
├── scripts/
│   ├── init_skill.py
│   ├── package_skill.py
│   └── quick_validate.py
├── references/
│   ├── workflows.md
│   └── output-patterns.md
└── LICENSE.txt

When to use it

• create a new skill
• improve an existing skill
• decide what belongs in SKILL.md, scripts/, references/, and assets/
• validate and package a distributable .skill file

Core workflow it teaches

1. Understand the target use case.
2. Plan reusable scripts, references, and assets.
3. Initialize a skill scaffold.
4. Implement and refine the bundled resources.
5. Write or tighten SKILL.md.
6. Validate and package the final skill.

Important resources

Resource	Purpose
scripts/init_skill.py	Creates a new skill scaffold
scripts/package_skill.py	Packages a skill into a distributable artifact
scripts/quick_validate.py	Validates skill structure and quality quickly
references/workflows.md	Guidance for multi-step skill workflow design
references/output-patterns.md	Guidance for output formats and quality patterns

Why it matters

This built-in skill defines the best-practice model for authoring both custom skills and future built-in skills in DB-GPT.