Skills
Skill Development
by Anthropic
Create and organise skills for Claude Code plugins: structure, descriptions that trigger well, and progressive disclosure.
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About Skill Development
Anthropic's skill development guide from the plugin-dev plugin in the Claude Code repository. It explains what skills are for, how to structure a skill folder, how to write a description that makes the skill load at the right time, how to split content for progressive disclosure, and how to bundle scripts and references.
Best for
Developers building Claude Code plugins and skills
Use cases
- Write a new skill for a Claude Code plugin
- Improve a skill description so it triggers reliably
- Reorganise a long skill into a short core file and references
Notes
Why it matters
A skill that never loads is wasted, and a skill that loads too much costs context. This guide covers both, from the team that defined the format.
Source
- Skill file: plugins/plugin-dev/skills/skill-development/SKILL.md in anthropics/claude-code.
- Repository: 153,272 GitHub stars, no licence file in the repository. Checked 24 Oct 2026 through the GitHub API.
- Last change to the skill: 17 Nov 2025.
- This page was written from the skill's own SKILL.md. It is not an Enterprise DNA source review and the skill has not been installed or tested by us.
Pros
- From Anthropic's own Claude Code repository
- Covers progressive disclosure and descriptions
- Concise and practical
Cons
- Specific to Claude Code plugins
- Licence terms are in the repository, not a standard open-source licence
Key facts
What we have checked
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Health and security
Is Skill Development looked after, and what do its setup files show
Security check static checks
100 out of 100
- Note No dependency list or install command was found in the skill, so there were no packages to look up on OSV.
Sources
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