skill-authoring
skill-authoring is an agent skill published by contentful, listed under building agents. It lives in the contentful/skills repository, which has 39 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
This tool allows you to create, modify, review, and fix Agent Skills in the contentful/skills repository. It requires no specific credentials.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads contentful/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add contentful/skills
Maintenance
Create, modify, review, and fix Agent Skills in the contentful/skills repository. Use when creating a new skill from scratch, editing an existing SKILL.md or package.json, reviewing skill structure for correctness, fixing skill formatting or naming issues, or looking up skill conventions. Also triggers on "create a skill", "add a skill", "skill template", "review this skill", "fix skill structure", "SKILL.md format", "naming convention", "how do I make a skill", "how do skills work", "what is an Agent Skill", "skill description", "write a description", "improve description", "skill frontmatter", "skill-kit", "build a skill", "validate skill", "check my skill". Not for general development or non-skill work.
skill-authoring compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| skill-authoring (this page) | contentful | Create, modify, review, and fix Agent Skills in the contentful/skills repository. Use when creating a new ski… | 39 | 2026-10-23 |
| claude-handoff | mattpocock | Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately. | 303,549 | 2026-10-22 |
| context-engineering | addyosmani | Optimizes agent context setup. Use when starting a new session, when agent output quality degrades, when swit… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| using-agent-skills | addyosmani | Discovers and invokes agent skills. Use when starting a session, or when you need to decide which skill or wo… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| agent-platform-inference | Connects to and performs inference with Google Cloud Agent Platform GenAI models, including First-Party Gemin… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 | |
| agent-platform-skill-registry | Interact with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Skill Registry to create and search for available skills.… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 | |
| gemini-agents-api | Manages custom Agent resources on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Use when the user wants to programmatical… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about skill-authoring
- What does skill-authoring do?
- This tool allows you to create, modify, review, and fix Agent Skills in the contentful/skills repository. It requires no specific credentials.
- How do I install skill-authoring?
- Run npx skills add contentful/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes skill-authoring?
- contentful.
- Is skill-authoring maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 39 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-23. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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