crafting-instructions
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Chooses the right FORMAT for instructions on Claude.ai — project instructions, a skill, or a standalone prompt — and gives the format-specific structure once chosen. Use when the question is which container an instruction belongs in ("should this be a skill or project instructions", "where do I put this", "how do I set up this project", "is this worth a skill"), or when someone has instructions and does not know how to package them. For the writing principles that apply inside any of the three formats, use writing-instructions. For building, testing and packaging a complete skill directory, use creating-skill.
Install
npx skills add oaustegard/claude-skills --skill crafting-instructions -a claude-code
Installs to .claude/skills/crafting-instructions/ · Each command fetches the skill straight from GitHub with the open skills CLI.
Byte-identical to the scanned commit, with the repository’s licence and a SOURCE.txt.
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Why 84
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