New: 98,000+ skills indexed from GitHub repos with 100+ stars · every skill safety-checkedBrowse top skillsTop skills
Esc to closeBrowse all skills
Submit a skillBrowse skills
Submit a skillBrowse skills

Agent skill

Skill Authoring

by pockebot in pockebot/openpocket

Refine draft skills into strict, reusable SKILL.md documents with stable triggers, preconditions, and failure branches.

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Skill Authoring

skills CLI
$ npx skills add pockebot/openpocket --skill skill-authoring -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install pockebot/openpocket skill-authoring --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pockebot/openpocket.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/skill-authoring .claude/skills/skill-authoring && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
skill-authoring
GitHub stars
847
Token cost
~369 tokens
SKILL.md length
157 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
23
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Refine draft skills into strict, reusable SKILL.md documents with stable triggers, preconditions, and failure branches.

  • Works in 4 steps: deterministic to execute → explicit about when to trigger → explicit about failure handling → …
  • Tasks that involve Skill authoring
  • SKILL.md covers Goal, Required Structure, Refinement Rules and Validation Gate
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Skill Authoring is an agent skill from pockebot/openpocket. Refine draft skills into strict, reusable SKILL.md documents with stable triggers, preconditions, and failure branches.

Its SKILL.md is about 370 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Skill authoring. The repository describes itself as: 🐹 An Intelligent Phone That Never Sleeps. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Skill authoring

Example prompts

  • “/skill-authoring”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. deterministic to execute
  2. explicit about when to trigger
  3. explicit about failure handling
  4. valid against strict skill validation rules

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d4dae3d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Skill Authoring loads about 369 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 34 tokens; SKILL.md has 157 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~34
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~369

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from pockebot/openpocket at commit d4dae3d, republished under its MIT licence (© pockebot). 157 words, ~369 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/skill-authoring/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
skill-authoring
description
Refine draft skills into strict, reusable SKILL.md documents with stable triggers, preconditions, and failure branches.

skill-authoring

Use this skill when converting a rough draft into a production-ready skill document.

Goal

Transform noisy step traces or draft markdown into a strict SKILL.md that is:

  1. deterministic to execute
  2. explicit about when to trigger
  3. explicit about failure handling
  4. valid against strict skill validation rules

Required Structure

  1. Frontmatter:
    • name (kebab-case, matches directory)
    • description (one concise sentence)
    • optional metadata JSON for triggers/requirements
  2. Body sections:
    • When To Use
    • Preconditions
    • Procedure
    • Failure Handling
    • Completion Criteria

Refinement Rules

  1. Replace fragile coordinates with semantic UI targets whenever possible.
  2. Keep each procedure step one atomic action.
  3. Add at least one fallback path for common blockers (auth wall, empty state, loading timeout).
  4. If personal data is required, add request_human_auth guidance before UI actions.
  5. Keep language concise and executable.

Validation Gate

Before promotion:

  1. Run strict skill validation.
  2. If validation fails, keep as draft and report issues.
  3. Promote only validated output.

© pockebot, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/skill-authoring of pockebot/openpocket.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d4dae3d

Compare with similar skills

Skill Authoring next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Skill Authoring compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
Skill Authoring this skillpockebot/openpocket847—~369Automated safety check: PassMIT
Skill CreatorAzure/azqr79589 repos~8.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Claude Code Skill Developer Guidediet103/claude-code-infrastructure-showcase10k11 repos~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Darwin Skill Optimizeralchaincyf/darwin-skill6.2k1 repos~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Claude Code Command Developmentanthropics/claude-plugins-official38k10 repos~4.8kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Claude Code Plugin Structureanthropics/claude-plugins-official38k10 repos~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

Similar skills

  • Skill Creator

    Azure/azqr

    Official

    Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance.

    795 GitHub starsUsed in 89 repos~8.2k tokens
    Agent WorkflowsAuto-check passed

  • Claude Code Skill Developer Guide

    diet103/claude-code-infrastructure-showcase

    A guide to creating and managing Claude Code skills with auto-activation: skill-rules.json triggers, hooks, enforcement levels, YAML frontmatter and progressive disclosure.

    10k GitHub starsUsed in 11 repos~3.5k tokens
    Agent WorkflowsAuto-check passed

  • Darwin Skill Optimizer

    alchaincyf/darwin-skill

    Scores SKILL.md files on a nine-dimension rubric, then improves them in a keep-or-revert loop with independent judge agents, test prompts, git history and human checkpoints.

    6.2k GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~4.7k tokens
    Agent WorkflowsAuto-check passed

  • Claude Code Command Development

    anthropics/claude-plugins-official

    Official

    Explains how to write Claude Code slash commands: Markdown files with YAML frontmatter, arguments, file references, bash context and interactive prompts.

    38k GitHub starsUsed in 10 repos~4.8k tokens
    Agent WorkflowsAuto-check passed

  • Claude Code Plugin Structure

    anthropics/claude-plugins-official

    Official

    Explains the directory layout, plugin.json manifest and component organization of a Claude Code plugin, including auto-discovery and portable paths.

    38k GitHub starsUsed in 10 repos~3.4k tokens
    Agent WorkflowsAuto-check passed

  • Skill Release Gate

    rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch

    Evaluates an Agent Skill bundle before release for structure, trigger quality, artifact improvement, script correctness, safety, installed-tree integrity and host portability.

    66k GitHub stars~1k tokensUpdated today
    Agent WorkflowsAuto-check passed

More from pockebot/openpocket

All 23 skills in this repo

  • Capcut Edit

    pockebot/openpocket

    Edit videos and beautify photos in CapCut on mobile. An agent skill from pockebot/openpocket.

    847 GitHub stars~1.3k tokensUpdated 3 mo ago
    Auto-check passed

  • Clash Of Clans Play

    pockebot/openpocket

    Play Clash of Clans on mobile with autonomous tactical decisions.

    847 GitHub stars~1.5k tokensUpdated 3 mo ago
    Auto-check passed

  • Duolingo Play

    pockebot/openpocket

    Help users complete Duolingo language lessons. An agent skill from pockebot/openpocket.

    847 GitHub stars~1.1k tokensUpdated 3 mo ago
    Auto-check passed

  • Human Auth Biometric

    pockebot/openpocket

    Handle biometric authentication delegation (fingerprint, face recognition) when the Agent Phone lacks biometric hardware.

    847 GitHub stars~506 tokensUpdated 3 mo ago
    Auto-check passed

  • Human Auth Camera

    pockebot/openpocket

    Handle camera photo capture delegation from Human Phone. An agent skill from pockebot/openpocket.

    847 GitHub stars~569 tokensUpdated 3 mo ago
    Auto-check passed

  • Human Auth Contacts Data

    pockebot/openpocket

    Handle contacts, calendar, files, and notification data delegation from Human Phone.

    847 GitHub stars~669 tokensUpdated 3 mo ago
    Auto-check passed

Categories

Questions about Skill Authoring

What does Skill Authoring do?

Refine draft skills into strict, reusable SKILL.md documents with stable triggers, preconditions, and failure branches. Skill Authoring is an agent skill from pockebot/openpocket.md documents with stable triggers, preconditions, and failure branches.

When should I use Skill Authoring?

Skill Authoring fits situations like: tasks that involve Skill authoring.

How do I install Skill Authoring in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add pockebot/openpocket --skill skill-authoring -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/skill-authoring in pockebot/openpocket) into .claude/skills/skill-authoring in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Skill Authoring in Codex?

Run `npx skills add pockebot/openpocket --skill skill-authoring -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/skill-authoring in pockebot/openpocket) into .agents/skills/skill-authoring in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Skill Authoring in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add pockebot/openpocket --skill skill-authoring -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/skill-authoring, .gemini/skills/skill-authoring, .github/skills/skill-authoring and .opencode/skills/skill-authoring in your project.

What does Skill Authoring need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Skill Authoring is instructions for the agent only.

Does Skill Authoring access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Skill Authoring safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Skill Authoring use?

Skill Authoring is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Skill Authoring use?

About 369 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Skill Authoring?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Skill Authoring: Skill Creator (Azure/azqr, 795 stars), Claude Code Skill Developer Guide (diet103/claude-code-infrastructure-showcase, 10k stars), Darwin Skill Optimizer (alchaincyf/darwin-skill, 6.2k stars) and Claude Code Command Development (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 38k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Skill Authoring?

pockebot (a GitHub organization) maintains it in pockebot/openpocket, which has 847 GitHub stars. The repository holds 23 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 9, 2026.

Source: pockebot/openpocket on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.