What problem does it solve? Building a new Codex skill from scratch requires knowing the SKILL.md frontmatter contract, naming rules, directory layout, and validation criteria. This Skill encodes that procedural knowledge and ships the scripts that scaffold and check skills, removing guesswork and malformed-output failures. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Skill scaffolding: Run init_skill.py to generate a complete skill directory with a templated SKILL.md, agents/openai.yaml UI metadata, and optional scripts/, references/, and assets/ folders. - Validation and UI metadata: Run quick_validate.py to check frontmatter format, required fields, and hyphen-case naming, and generate_openai_yaml.py to produce display names and short descriptions for skill lists. - Authoring guidance: Provides design principles for concise instructions, progressive disclosure, degrees of freedom, and forward-testing with subagents. - Use Case: When asked to build a new pdf-editor skill, use this Skill to initialize the folder, write a triggering description, add a rotation script, and validate the result before delivery. ## Quick Start Use the skill-creator skill to scaffold a new skill named pdf-editor with scripts and references resources, then validate it.
