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Agent skill

Creating Skills

by NangoHQ in NangoHQ/nango

A skill your agent uses when creating new agent skills or improving existing ones - ensures skills are discoverable, scannable, and effective through proper structure, discovery optimization, and…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedBackend & APIs

Install Creating Skills

skills CLI
$ npx skills add NangoHQ/nango --skill creating-skills -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install NangoHQ/nango creating-skills --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/NangoHQ/nango.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/creating-skills-skill .claude/skills/creating-skills && 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
creating-skills
GitHub stars
13k
Used in
3 other repos
Token cost
~3.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,130 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
9
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when creating new agent skills or improving existing ones - ensures skills are discoverable, scannable, and effective through proper structure, discovery optimization, and…

  • Works in 4 steps: Clear sequential steps: Break complex… → Feedback loops: Build in… → Error handling: What to check when… → …
  • Creating new agent skills
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to Use, Required Structure and Degrees of Freedom, plus 9 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Creating Skills is an agent skill from NangoHQ/nango. Use when creating new agent skills or improving existing ones - ensures skills are discoverable, scannable, and effective through proper structure, discovery optimization, and real examples

Its SKILL.md is about 3.5k 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 Backend & APIs. The repository describes itself as: Connect your agents & product to 1,000 APIs.

When your agent uses it

  • Creating new agent skills
  • Improving existing ones - ensures skills are discoverable
  • Effective through proper structure
  • Discovery optimization

Example prompts

  • “/creating-skills”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

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

  1. Clear sequential steps: Break complex tasks into numbered operations
  2. Feedback loops: Build in verification/validation steps
  3. Error handling: What to check when things go wrong
  4. Checklists: For processes with many steps or easy-to-miss details

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b07eb10. 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 (its code samples are markdown, yaml, typescript and bash).

    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

Creating Skills loads about 3.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,130 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~51
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.5k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,130 words (~3,459 tokens).

“Skills are reference guides for proven techniques, patterns, or tools. Write them to help future agents quickly find and apply effective approaches.”

— opening of SKILL.md by NangoHQ, Custom licence
name
creating-skills
tags
meta

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/creating-skills-skill of NangoHQ/nango.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b07eb10

Used in 3 other repositories

We found 3 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 3 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in NangoHQ/nango, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Firecrawl Build Onboardingfirecrawl/firecrawl190k1 repos~1.4kAutomated safety check: NotesISC
Obsidian BasesAtmosphere/atmosphere3.8k22 repos~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Categories

Questions about Creating Skills

What does Creating Skills do?

A skill your agent uses when creating new agent skills or improving existing ones - ensures skills are discoverable, scannable, and effective through proper structure, discovery optimization, and…. Creating Skills is an agent skill from NangoHQ/nango.

When should I use Creating Skills?

Creating Skills fits situations like: creating new agent skills; improving existing ones - ensures skills are discoverable; effective through proper structure; discovery optimization.

How do I install Creating Skills in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Creating Skills in Codex?

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

Can I use Creating Skills 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 NangoHQ/nango --skill creating-skills -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/creating-skills, .gemini/skills/creating-skills, .github/skills/creating-skills and .opencode/skills/creating-skills in your project.

What does Creating Skills need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Creating Skills is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Creating Skills 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 Creating Skills 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 Creating Skills use?

Creating Skills has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Creating Skills use?

About 3.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 14k 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 Creating Skills?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Creating Skills: Configuring Horizon (coollabsio/coolify, 63k stars), Nestjs Best Practices (rolling-scopes/rsschool-app, 10k stars), Sub2API Admin (Wei-Shaw/sub2api, 44k stars) and Firecrawl Build Onboarding (firecrawl/firecrawl, 190k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Creating Skills?

NangoHQ (a GitHub organization) maintains it in NangoHQ/nango, which has 12,575 GitHub stars. The repository holds 9 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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