Author Skill

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Security · Sub-category: security-misc

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Author a new Cody skill and ship it end-to-end. Writes skills/<name>/SKILL.md, commits on the secret-agent-skills-bank branch (Cody's own branch), and fast-forwards main to the same commit so the existing publish-gateway-bundle workflow rebundles skills/** and pulls them onto the gateway. No human review step. Use when the user asks Cody to create a new skill. Do NOT use to edit an existing skill.

What this skill does

Author Skill is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the security-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/author-skill/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user asks Cody to create a new skill. Do NOT use to edit an existing skill.

Who uses this skill

The Author Skill skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/author-skill
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/author-skill/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/author-skill/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/author-skill/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/author-skill/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\author-skill\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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