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Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: ai-tooling  ·  Last updated:
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Drafts a non-binding healthcare values/instruction letter for a designated health care agent to guide substituted-judgment decisions during incapacity. Use when a client needs a bedside document that harmonizes with a health care power of attorney, healthcare proxy, or advance directive and captures quality-of-life thresholds, treatment preferences, and conflict guidance. Trigger on requests for "instruction letter," "health care agent letter," "values letter," "legacy letter," "healthcare proxy," or "DPOA health care.

About this skill (catalog notes)

Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter includes at least one code block. The SKILL.md runs to about 771 words, in the catalog's typical mid-range.

License
Apache-2.0
Original author
CaseMark
Indexed lastmod
Catalog position
General · ai-tooling
Indexed related skills
10

How Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter fits the catalog

Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter sits in the General category under the ai-tooling sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

From the source SKILL.md

Drafts a scenario-based, non-binding values letter in the client's voice to empower the health care agent and reduce ambiguity at the bedside. Output supplements—never replaces—operative legal directives.

What this skill does

Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the ai-tooling sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/healthcare-agent-instruction-letter/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when a client needs a bedside document that harmonizes with a health care power of attorney, healthcare proxy, or advance directive and captures quality-of-life thresholds, treatment preferences, and conflict guidance. Trigger on requests for "instruction letter," "health care agent letter," "values letter," "legacy letter," "healthcare proxy," or "DPOA health care.

Who uses this skill

The Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 92,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/healthcare-agent-instruction-letter
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/healthcare-agent-instruction-letter/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/healthcare-agent-instruction-letter/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/healthcare-agent-instruction-letter/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

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

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/healthcare-agent-instruction-letter/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter skill do?
Drafts a non-binding healthcare values/instruction letter for a designated health care agent to guide substituted-judgment decisions during incapacity. Use when a client needs a bedside document that harmonizes with a health care power of attorney, healthcare proxy, or advance directive and captures quality-of-life thresholds, treatment preferences, and conflict guidance. Trigger on requests for "instruction letter," "health care agent letter," "values letter," "legacy letter," "healthcare proxy," or "DPOA health care.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter skill?
Use Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter when your Claude Code task falls under the General category — specifically in the ai tooling area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/general/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

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CaseMark. (2026). Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/healthcare-agent-instruction-letter/
BibTeX
@misc{healthcare-agent-instruction-letter-2026,
  author    = {CaseMark},
  title     = {Healthcare Agent Instruction Letter [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/healthcare-agent-instruction-letter/}
}

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