Step-by-step guide for creating your own Claude Skills, from deciding whether a skill is the right tool to writing the SKILL.md file, structuring reference material, and making it trigger reliably. Use when you want to package a workflow, framework, or repeated task into a reusable Skill, when an existing skill is not triggering or not loading the right context, when you are auditing a skill…
Install
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill skill-creation-walkthroughnpx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill skill-creation-walkthrough -a claude-code -gnpx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill skill-creation-walkthrough -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills.git --path skills/skill-creation-walkthroughgh skill install rampstackco/claude-skills skill-creation-walkthroughgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills /tmp/rampstackco__claude-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/rampstackco__claude-skills/skills/skill-creation-walkthrough ~/.claude/skills/skill-creation-walkthrough # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/rampstackco__claude-skills/skills/skill-creation-walkthrough ~/.agents/skills/skill-creation-walkthrough # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode