Claude Code Skills
researched 2026-05-25· 0 sources · 4 concepts · skill claude-code-skills
Reference for the Claude Code skills ecosystem — anatomy, authoring, discovery, distribution, management, composition, and optimization. Backed by references/claude-code-skills-context.md.
Claude Code Skills Expert
- Reference for the Claude Code skills ecosystem - anatomy, authoring, discovery, distribution, management, composition, and optimization. Backed by references/claude-code-skills-context.md. [source]
When NOT to use
- Plugin packaging, hook configuration, or agent definitions → use claude-code-plugins [source]
- Searching the prompts.chat registry to find and install an existing skill → use skill-lookup [source]
- Creating a brand-new skill interactively from a description → use skill-creator [source]
- Optimizing trigger accuracy, fixing over-triggering, or improving prose quality of an existing skill → use skill-optimizer [source]
Skill precedence (highest to lowest)
Security checklist
- Run uvx mcp-scan@latest --skills before installing unknown skills [source]
- 36.8% of scraped skills have security flaws (Snyk ToxicSkills, Feb 2026) [source]
- 13.4% contain critical vulnerabilities; 76 confirmed malicious payloads found [source]
- Prefer Anthropic Official or Agensi-vetted skills for production use [source]
Full reference
- For complete coverage of all frontmatter fields, token budget management, skillOverrides, CI/CD integration, and skill composition patterns, read references/claude-code-skills-context.md in this directory. [source]
Children
- Claude Code Plugins
- Skill Authoring Best Practices (frontier)
- Skill Discovery and Distribution (frontier)
- Skill Management and Composition (frontier)
Frontier under this node: Skill Authoring Best Practices, Skill Discovery and Distribution, Skill Management and Composition