A meta-skill for authoring steering workflows — the phased playbooks under steering/workflows/ that an agent reads top to bottom to conduct a structured engagement (design review, upgrade, cost review, and the like). This skill teaches you how to write one. It is not itself a workflow — don't follow it to review a cluster or upgrade anything.
Steering Workflow Creator is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the tools-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/steering-workflow-creator/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when the user asks to create a steering workflow, add a workflow to apex, standardize steering, write a new workflow for EKS / RDS / Lambda / IAM / any AWS service, or build a phased playbook that plugs into a service hub. Covers the convention (frontmatter, header block, required sections), tool routing (knowledge vs.
The Steering Workflow Creator Claude Code skill is built for developers, power users, and teams automating repetitive workflows and improving developer experience. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 174,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/steering-workflow-creator curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/steering-workflow-creator/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/steering-workflow-creator/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/steering-workflow-creator/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/steering-workflow-creator/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\steering-workflow-creator\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/steering-workflow-creator/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. Steering Workflow Creator is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Dev Tools 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{steering-workflow-creator-2026,
author = {aws-samples},
title = {Steering Workflow Creator [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/steering-workflow-creator/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-02 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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