Guides users through creating effective Agent Skills. Use when you want to create, write, or author a new skill, or asks about skill structure, best practices, or SKILL.md format.
b4d91bfCreating skills Skills are markdown (plus optional scripts) that teach the agent a focused workflow. Keep SKILL.md short —the context window is shared with chat, code, and other skills. Where skills live | Location | When to use | | | | | | Default for n8n: team shared, versioned, agent neutral source. | | | Claude specific override, or a generated symlink to . | | | OpenCode specific override only. Shared skills stay in . | | | Personal skill for Claude Code across all projects. | | | Personal…
Full body not shown for this license – view the source on GitHub →Copy a source-pinned command for your client. You run it yourself.
Destination: .claude/skills/create-skill · pinned to the source commit
git clone https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n.git
cd n8n
git checkout b4d91bfe8a293106815b308a841e210562002735
mkdir -p ".claude/skills/create-skill"
cp -r ".agents/skills/create-skill" ".claude/skills/create-skill"Review the source before running. This copies files into your project; it is not a one-click install and does not verify runtime safety.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y gitnpm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-codegit clone https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n.git
cd n8n
git checkout b4d91bfe8a293106815b308a841e210562002735
mkdir -p ".claude/skills/create-skill"
cp -r ".agents/skills/create-skill" ".claude/skills/create-skill"Destination: .claude/skills/create-skill
Scanner static-checks@0.1.0 · commit b4d91bfe8a29. Static checks cannot prove runtime safety – review the source and the exact diff before installing. How checks work.
References parent-directory traversal, which can escape a target directory.
Evidence: ../· fingerprint fa08499e14d0113b