# Custom skills

A step of the [Claude Code development environment](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/claude-dev-environment) tree on Gradus, in the Commands & hooks area: Slash commands, hooks, skills, agents.

Page: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/claude-dev-environment/step/custom-skills

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

Usually comes after: [Slash commands](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/claude-dev-environment/step/slash-commands).

Leads to: [Subagents](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/claude-dev-environment/step/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.
```

Every step of the tree: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/claude-dev-environment/llms.txt