Shared Skill for Claude
Platform-agnostic skills including skill creation templates and best practices. Use when creating new skills or improving existing ones.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill sharedThe instruction itself
6 sections, as written by the authorShared Skills
Platform-agnostic skills that work across iOS, macOS, and other Apple platforms. This category provides foundational tools for extending Claude Code's capabilities.
When This Skill Activates
Use this skill when the user:
- Wants to create a new Claude Code skill
- Asks about skill structure or organization
- Wants to improve or refactor existing skills
- Needs help with skill modularization
- Asks about skill best practices or templates
Available Modules
Read relevant module files based on the user's needs:
skill-creator/
Templates and guidance for creating well-structured Claude Code skills.
- Skill structure and organization patterns
- YAML front matter configuration
- Modularization strategies
- Templates for simple and complex skills
- Best practices and common pitfalls
How to Use
- Identify user's need from their question
- Read relevant module files from subdirectories
- Apply the guidance to their specific context
- Provide examples from existing skills when helpful
Example Workflow
User wants to create a new skill:
- Read
skill-creator/SKILL.mdfor the full creation process - Determine skill complexity (simple vs modularized)
- Guide through front matter, structure, and content
- Reference existing skills as examples
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Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
Replace with description of the skill and when Claude should use it.
Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies
This skill should be used when the user wants to "create a skill", "add a skill to plugin", "write a new skill", "improve skill description", "organize skill content", or needs guidance on skill structure, progressive disclosure, or skill development best practices for Claude Code plugins.
Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill.
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
How to use it
Take rshankras/shared from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
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.