template-skill

An agent skill by anthropics, from anthropics/skills. Tags: anthropic, developer-tools, documents.

What it does

Replace with description of the skill and when Claude should use it.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill template-skill

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills
cp -r skills/template ~/.claude/skills/template-skill

Safety box score

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Source

Repository

anthropics/skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

template/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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