Custom skills

A step of the Claude Code development environment tree on Gradus, in the Commands & hooks area: Slash commands, hooks, skills, agents.

Package multi-step procedures (deploying, cutting a release, onboarding a module) as skills with their own instructions and scripts.

Usually comes after: Slash commands.

Leads to: Subagents.

Prompt for your AI assistant

Create a .claude/skills/ directory with one skill for the most involved procedure in this project. Give it a SKILL.md with a clear description of when to use it, the step-by-step instructions and any helper script it needs. Verify that the skill appears when I list skills.

This is https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/claude-dev-environment/step/custom-skills as plain HTML. In a browser the page also lets you mark the step forged and copy a message for your AI assistant.