Skills Best Practices | Agent Skills Atlas

About this skill

Build high-quality Agent Skills for Claude following official Anthropic best practices. Covers SKILL.md structure, frontmatter, description writing, progressive disclosure, testing, patterns, troubleshooting, and distribution across all surfaces (Claude.ai, Claude Code, API, Agent SDK). Use when creating new skills, reviewing skill quality, debugging skill triggering, structuring skill directories, writing skill descriptions, or improving existing skills. Triggers on "build a skill", "create a skill", "skill structure", "SKILL.md", "skill best practices", "skill not triggering", "skill quality".

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About this listing

Category: Engineering
Reported license: Not specified
Listing language (estimated): English
Review status: Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility: Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.