Skills

Skills are focused, reusable capabilities that Claude Code can invoke for specific tasks. Unlike agents (which define a persistent persona), skills are task-specific — like "generate a migration" or "review a pull request."

Create a skill

Create skills through the dashboard or by importing local files.

Dashboard:

1. Go to Resources > New Resource > Skill
2. Set the name, slug, and description
3. Write the skill prompt
4. Click Create

Local file: Create a markdown file in .claude/skills/:

---
name: db-migration
description: Generate database migrations with proper rollback support
---

Generate a Rails database migration for the requested change.

## Requirements

- Always include a reversible `change` method
- Add appropriate indexes for foreign keys
- Use `null: false` for required columns
- Add comments explaining non-obvious column choices

Then import it:

crewkit resources import

Skill file format

Skills use the same format as agents — markdown with optional YAML frontmatter:

---
name: review-pr
description: Review pull request for code quality and standards
---

Review the pull request changes for:
- Code quality and readability
- Test coverage
- Security concerns
- Performance implications

The description field is used for discovery — Claude Code shows it when listing available skills.

Using skills

Skills are synced to .claude/skills/ and available as slash commands in Claude Code. Invoke them by name:

/skill db-migration Add a tags column to the posts table

Skill tiers

Like agents, skills can exist at platform, organization, or project level. See Inheritance for details.

Next steps

• Rules
• Commands
• Inheritance