Practical guides for building, distributing, and operating Claude Code skills. Everything here is hand-written reference material — no AI-generated filler. Tutorials cover the SKILL.md spec, design patterns from the catalog's top-scoring skills, and how Claude Code skills relate to neighbouring concepts like MCP servers and Claude API tools.
Step-by-step walkthrough — from ~/.claude/skills/<slug>/SKILL.md location to YAML frontmatter, anti-trigger discipline, and packaging for distribution. Includes a copy-pasteable starter template.
Complete reference for every YAML frontmatter field Claude Code recognizes — name, description, model, tags, allowed-tools, user-invokable, category, plus the optional metadata fields the registry indexes.
When to write a skill, when to write an MCP server, when both. Architecture trade-offs, deployment differences, and a decision tree for picking the right primitive for your use case.
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