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Claude Code Skills Explained: What They Are and How to Write One

Terminal-style card showing a real Claude Code skill file, .claude/skills/hook/SKILL.md, with its name and description loading at startup and 68 skills in the repo
The top of one skill file from my repo, /hook, counted by script on October 27, 2026. The description is shortened.

What Claude Code skills are, where they live, a real SKILL.md in full, and three lessons from my tests on descriptions, templates and skipped steps.