Templates fail in two familiar ways: the empty-headings ghost (## Background — helpfully blank) that guides nobody, and the forty-field bureaucratic form that takes longer than freeform writing did. A working template is extracted from documents the team already writes repeatedly, keeps only the sections that recur with purpose, and — the difference-maker — its placeholders are prompts ("One sentence: what changed since last update, and does the date still hold?") rather than labels ("Update:"). It ships with a filled example, because the example teaches what the skeleton can't.
Template Designer is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the scaffolders sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/template-designer/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when asked make a template from this doc, we write this same thing every week, standardize our status updates or briefs, or why does nobody use our templates. Produces the extracted template with prompting placeholders, the keep-it-light rules, the example-filled twin, and the adoption path.
The Template Designer 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 159,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/template-designer curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/template-designer/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/template-designer/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/template-designer/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/template-designer/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\template-designer\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/template-designer/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. Template Designer 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{template-designer-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {Template Designer [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/template-designer/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-07-24 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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