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Writing CLI Skills

joshuadavidthomas/writing-cli-skills

Use when authoring an agent skill that wraps a command-line tool — covers hands-on tool exploration, required vs. recommended sections, installation/usage structure, trigger-rich descriptions, task-grouped commands, progressive disclosure, and a pre-publish checklist. Triggers for CLI / command-line / terminal / shell-command tools and binary wrappers; for review, run the Checklist section.

2k tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
2
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
37
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/joshuadavidthomas/agent-skills --skill writing-cli-skills

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take joshuadavidthomas/writing-cli-skills from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.