skill-crafting

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Create, edit, and refine agent skills through co-development and eval loops. Use for ANY question about skills or request to create/modify them.

basecamp By basecamp schedule Updated 3/31/2026

name: skill-crafting description: | Create, edit, and refine agent skills through co-development and eval loops. Use for ANY question about skills or request to create/modify them. triggers:

Direct invocations

  • skill-crafting
  • /skill
  • /skill-crafting

Create

  • create a skill
  • create skill
  • new skill
  • write a skill
  • write skill
  • build a skill
  • build skill
  • craft a skill
  • make a skill
  • add a skill

Edit / update

  • edit skill
  • update skill
  • modify skill
  • change skill
  • improve skill
  • refine skill
  • fix skill

Skill types

  • agent skill
  • claude skill
  • plugin skill
  • ai skill

Development process

  • skill development
  • developing skills
  • skill design
  • skill structure
  • skill format
  • skill spec
  • skill specification

Questions and capability discovery

  • how do I create a skill
  • how do I write a skill
  • how do I make a skill
  • how do skills work
  • how does a skill work
  • what is a skill
  • what makes a good skill
  • can I create a skill
  • can I make a skill
  • should I create a skill
  • what should a skill contain
  • skill best practices
  • skill triggers
  • skill frontmatter

skill-crafting

Open @references/guide.md and follow it. Do not proceed without it.

Create effective agent skills through iterative co-development. The skill and its outputs improve together until outputs graduate to exemplars.

The guide contains:

  • The co-development flywheel
  • Bootstrapping without exemplars
  • Eval loop mechanics
  • Structure emergence
  • Maturity signals
Install via CLI
npx skills add https://github.com/basecamp/house-skills --skill skill-crafting
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