This skill guides you through a multi-step analysis chain to generate a comprehensive instructions file (e.g., copilot-instructions.md) by analyzing the structure, patterns, and intent of a codebase. The resulting file helps AI tools operate more effectively within the project by providing clear architectural context, domain understanding, and stylistic guidelines.
Instruction Generation is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the architecture sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/instruction-generation/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when asked to analyze a codebase, generate copilot instructions, create an onboarding document, or teach an AI about a project. Runs a 6-step prompt chain covering tech stack, file categorization, architecture, domain analysis, style guides, and instruction building.
The Instruction Generation Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 158,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/instruction-generation curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/instruction-generation/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/instruction-generation/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/instruction-generation/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/instruction-generation/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\instruction-generation\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/instruction-generation/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.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. Instruction Generation is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{instruction-generation-2026,
author = {bitovi},
title = {Instruction Generation [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/instruction-generation/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-07-23 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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