skill-creator
Shares rank 20 of 23 agent skills by recommenders
Recommended for generating new agent skills, including subagent tests of whether a skill helps. Critics say it micromanages models and works best as a scaffold for simple skills.
Recommended for generating new agent skills, including subagent tests of whether a skill helps. Critics say it micromanages models and works best as a scaffold for simple skills.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Used to install and build other skills
“install the official `skill-creator`; 2) use that with the above link to create `claude-md-improver`”
Comment from 15 May 2026 in “How Claude Code works in large codebases” “For any of these, install the `/plugin` skill-creator.”
Comment from 29 Mar 2026 in “Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Needs rework beyond simple skills
“a decent jumping off point. It is easy enough to start with, but unless the skill is really simple I found it best to consider it a scaffold”
Comment from 7 May 2026 in “Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs” Micromanages models, worse for many
“it micromanages, which is in fact worse for 5+ models than just leaving the instructions out and crossing your fingers.”
Comment from 27 Sep 2026 in “I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB”
Other agent skills people recommend
The four most recommended other agent skills, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superpowers | 138 | 72 | 66% | 12 | 4 mo7 owners | — |
| Claude Skills | 59 | 26 | 69% | 11 | — | Approved |
| grill-me skill by Matt Pocock | 39 | 2 | 95% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Get Shit Done | 31 | 32 | 49% | 7 | — | — |
| skill-creatorThis page | 8 | 1 | 89% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it micromanages, which is in fact worse for 5+ models than just leaving the instructions out and crossing your fingers.”
“install the official `skill-creator`; 2) use that with the above link to create `claude-md-improver`”
“Wouldn't this be faster with an agent skill that has code?”
“a decent jumping off point. It is easy enough to start with, but unless the skill is really simple I found it best to consider it a scaffold”
“it's pretty neat. It creates ~6 subagents with and without the skill and judges if they differ in performance.”
“For any of these, install the `/plugin` skill-creator.”
“I use a skill that gets activated when creating a skill to help guide this approach”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.