ChristopherKahler

Skillsmith — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

End-to-end Claude Code framework — orchestrates projects, workspace health, behavioral rules, ideation, audits, and skill creation from a single installer.

How to install Skillsmith

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open ChristopherKahler/skillsmith and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Skillsmith does

End-to-end Claude Code framework — orchestrates projects, workspace health, behavioral rules, ideation, audits, and skill creation from a single installer.

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README

Skillsmith

**Build consistent Claude Code skills using standardized syntax and guided workflows.**

[![Claude Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Claude%20Code-compatible-8b5cf6?style=flat-square)](https://claude.ai/code) [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue?style=flat-square)](LICENSE)

What Skillsmith Does
Commands
The Problem
How It Works
Architecture
Syntax Specs
Ecosystem
Install

What's New in v1.0

BASE v2 integration — scaffolded skills auto-register in the knowledge graph
Attribution & provenance — every generated file carries skillsmith_version, skillsmith_source, and a Chris AI Systems footer
PAUL v1.4 alignment — paul.toml manifest, updated ecosystem refs
Anti-theft protection — provenance baked into frontmatter and every generated file

What Skillsmith Does

Claude Code skills are markdown files that give Claude a persona, routing logic, and domain knowledge. They're powerful — but there's no standard for how to write them. Every skill looks different. Entry points mix routing with process logic. Tasks miss required sections. Templates use inconsistent placeholders. When you share a skill, someone else has to reverse-engineer your conventions.

Skillsmith fixes this. It's a meta-skill — a skill that builds other skills — with four workflows:

Discover — Guided interview that captures every design decision and produces a structured skill spec
Scaffold — Takes a skill spec and generates a compliant directory with all files following syntax standards
Distill — Transforms raw source material (books, courses, transcripts) into structured framework chunks ready for skill consumption
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