ClaudSkills / General / ai-tooling

Writing Claude Md Files

Quality score: 70/100  ·  Category: General  ·  Sub-category: ai-tooling
ai:claude
Use when creating or updating CLAUDE.md files for projects or subdirectories - covers top-level vs domain-level organization, capturing architectural intent and contracts, and mandatory freshness dates

What this skill does

Writing Claude Md Files is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the ai-tooling sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/writing-claude-md-files/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when creating or updating CLAUDE.

Who uses this skill

The Writing Claude Md Files skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. 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/writing-claude-md-files
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/writing-claude-md-files/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/writing-claude-md-files/SKILL.md

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

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/writing-claude-md-files/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\writing-claude-md-files\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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