skillforge

Create well-formed Skills quickly and consistently.

Workflow

1. Restate the spec

   • What problem does the skill solve?
   • Who/what will use it (Codex, Claude Code, humans)?
   • What inputs does it take and what outputs does it produce?
   • What is explicitly out of scope?

2. Pick the skill type

   • operational: narrowly-scoped, repeatable procedure (preferred default).
   • meta: orchestration / governance / decision-making.
   • composed: "manager" skills that chain other skills together.

3. Name the skill

   • kebab-case, short, verb-led if possible.
   • One responsibility per skill.

4. Create the skill folder

   • Recommended (project skills): skills/<type>/<name>/
   • Optional (kit skills): forgeloop/skills/<type>/<name>/ only when you are changing the kit itself
   • Required: SKILL.md
   • Optional: scripts/, references/, assets/

5. Write SKILL.md

   • Frontmatter: name + description only.
   • The description is the trigger surface: include what it does + when to use it.
   • Body: concise steps + crisp examples; link large details into references/.

6. Sync skills into your agents

   • After adding/updating skills, run:
     • ./forgeloop/bin/sync-skills.sh (Claude Code mirror + optional Codex install)

Minimal SKILL.md skeleton

---
name: your-skill-name
description: "What it does. Use when … (include triggers)."
---

# Your Skill Name

## Inputs
- …

## Outputs
- …

## Steps
1. …

## Examples
- …

Guardrails

• Prefer small, reversible changes.
• Do not "over-forge": only create a new skill when it will be reused or it meaningfully reduces future context.