Struggling to build a Claude skills.md file?

Claude has a built in tool that does it for you!

The other week, I sat down to create a prompt that would help me create a skills.md

In my investigation and poking around, I found that Claude themselves BUILT a skills.md to help users.

So no need to create a prompt to help you do this!

Here is how to find it and use it:

1) Inside Claude, on the far left, is a menu.

Third item down is "Customize".

Click "Customize"

2) Customize Menu Opens.

You have two options as seen below:

Click "Skills"

3) This open up a list of pre-defined skills.

at the top of the list is skill-creator

4) For learning purposes, click the "greater than" sign, to open up the sub-list of items. This will show you everything the folks at Claude have built to include within this skill.

You don't have to dig into ANY of these files. I am showing you this just to demonstrate everything Claude built to accomplish this task.

5) Below is the description of the skill-creator skill

6) To use the skill creator. Do the following:

in the text box type: /skill-creator

The forward slash (/) lets Claude know that a command is coming.

What follows the forward slash is the name of the skill that should be run.

After you type /skill-creator; follow that with instructions on the kind of skill you want to create.

In this example, I attached a text file with a prompt I use. So my instructions for the skill-creator is to turn that prompt into a skill.

7) Claude then does a couple of things. First, its reads the skill-creator skill.md file. It gathers those instructions. Then it read your instructions and proceeds to build the skill.

8) When Claude completes building, the following will appear:

The name of your skill will appear where I have blacked-out the name of mine.

You are given two options:

• Download
• Copy to your skills

9) I highly recommend you download the skill for backup/safe keeping.

10) When you click the "Copy to your skills" button, Claude will save your skill to the skills section of your account:

Your skill will appear in the My Skills heading of the Skills menu

11) To run your new skill:

In the Claude text box, type forward slash (/) and then the name of your skill

/your-skill-name