Skills

Skills management lets you create, edit, and organize Claude Code skills — reusable automation modules that extend Claude’s capabilities with custom slash commands and behaviors.

What Are Skills?

Claude Code skills are reusable command definitions stored as directories with a SKILL.md file. When a skill is registered, Claude can invoke it as a slash command (e.g., /my-skill). Skills can define custom instructions, specify which model to use, restrict available tools, and include context from other files.

Creating a Skill

1. Open the skills management panel from the sidebar.
2. Click New Skill.
3. Fill in the skill configuration:
   • Name — The skill’s identifier (becomes the slash command name)
   • Description — What the skill does (shown in Claude’s skill list)
   • Version — Semantic version string
   • Model — Preferred Claude model
   • Allowed Tools — Tools the skill can access
   • User Invocable — Whether users can trigger it manually (default: yes)
   • Argument Hint — Help text for the skill’s arguments
   • Content — The skill’s instructions in markdown
4. Choose the scope: Global or Project.
5. Click Save.

Scoping

Skills live in .claude/skills/ directories:

• Global (~/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md) — Available in every project
• Project (<project>/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md) — Available only in that project

Move skills between scopes using the Move action.

Advanced Configuration

Skills support several advanced options:

Storage Format

Each skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter:

---
name: deploy
description: Deploy the current project to production
version: 1.0.0
user-invocable: true
model: sonnet
allowed-tools: Bash, Read
---

You are a deployment assistant. When invoked, perform these steps...