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Skill Content Authoring

A hybrid workflow skill for writing, completing, integrating, and improving SKILL.md files and agent definitions with enforced conventions and a lint step.

Dev & CodingIntermediate23114AI score 7/10Last updated: Apr 27, 2026

What it does

  • Routes authoring work into four explicit paths: write from scratch, integrate an external skill, complete an empty scaffold, or improve existing content.
  • Runs a triage check first — one-off conventions belong in CLAUDE.md, mechanical rules belong in scripts, not in a skill.
  • Enforces frontmatter rules: kebab-case name matching the directory, description starting with "Use when...", under 250 chars, triggering conditions only.
  • Builds a standard body: Overview with skill-type declaration, step-by-step process, a Common Mistakes table (3+ rows), and Inputs / Outputs / Integration wiring.
  • Manages token budget: extract 100+ line blocks to references/, keep the body compact, front-load critical instructions in the first ~5,000 tokens.
  • Closes with bundles-forge audit-skill lint and triages Critical / Warning / Info findings (falls back to a manual quality checklist).

Who it's for

  • Developers maintaining several Claude Code skills or plugin bundles who want consistent quality.
  • Teams adopting third-party skills that must be reshaped to house conventions.
  • Anyone whose skills "never trigger" or whose SKILL.md has grown too long for the context window.

Examples

  1. Hand it a skill inventory from a design doc: "draft all these SKILL.md files" → Path 1 writes frontmatter through Integration.
  2. Drop in a skill copied from GitHub: "adapt it to our conventions" → it reads 2-3 existing skills and realigns description style and sections (Path 2).
  3. Point it at scaffolded but empty directories: "fill these in" → Path 3 writes content, then runs bundles-forge audit-skill.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OdradekAI/bundles-forge/HEAD/skills/authoring/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.

If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/authoring folder from the GitHub repo OdradekAI/bundles-forge into my ~/.claude/skills/authoring/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/OdradekAI/bundles-forge.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r bundles-forge/skills/authoring ~/.claude/skills/

This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/OdradekAI/bundles-forge.git
  3. Make sure the skills folder exists: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the whole folder so the references/ guides come along: cp -r bundles-forge/skills/authoring ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify with ls ~/.claude/skills/authoring — you should see SKILL.md and references/.
  6. (Recommended) Install the bundles-forge CLI per the repo README so the audit step works; otherwise the skill reviews against references/quality-checklist.md manually.
  7. Restart Claude Code and try: "help me write a SKILL.md for a new skill".
View source on GitHubLicense: Apache-2.0