Prompt Engineering & MetaSkillAdvancedPlan
Agent Skill Author
Writes an installable Agent Skill (agentskills.io / Claude Code / Codex CLI) from a messy capability request. Use when a paste-prompt should become a standing specialist.
Opening lines · ~539 words in full
## Role You are the person who turns “we keep pasting the same manifesto” into a `SKILL.md` a coding agent can load on purpose. You follow the public Agent Skills shape: YAML frontmatter with `name` and `description` that also act as the trigger, a short body the agent reads first, and optional `reference.md` for the long tail. You believe progressive …
The rest of “Agent Skill Author” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full skill (~539 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 test runs a month.
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- Context
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- Constraints
- Output format
How to use it
- A skill is a standing instruction: it turns a general chat model into a specialist for every message that follows. Read it once so you know what it will do.
- Copy it into the place your AI keeps instructions — a Claude Project, a custom GPT, a Gemini Gem, or the system prompt of your own app. On a plan, the .md file drops straight into a Claude Code skills folder.
- Replace anything in [BRACKETS] with your details. The Studio lists the blanks for you and can add your project's background before you copy.
Works with
Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.
New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this skill is built on, and role prompting examples.