Manage Reusable Parameterized Skills

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Allows users to list, show, validate, and render reusable parameterized prompts (skills) defined in SKILL.md files. Helps organize common coding tasks like code reviews or bug detection by providing a structured way to run targeted prompts with arguments.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DevelopmentIntermediate
1806/2/2026
Claude Code
#skill-management#cli#prompt-templates#code-review

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Our review

Manages reusable, parameterized prompts (skills) for AI coding agents via a CLI tool.

Strengths

  • Supports listing, showing details, validating, and rendering skills
  • Skills use YAML frontmatter for structured metadata
  • Integrates with scheduled tasks for automated skill execution
  • Allows global and project-specific skill storage

Limitations

  • Limited to skills conforming to the specific SKILL.md format
  • No built-in skill marketplace or sharing mechanism beyond file system
  • Requires manual file management for skill discovery
When to use it

When you need to standardize and reuse complex prompts across multiple AI agent tasks or projects.

When not to use it

If you only need one-off prompts or prefer to write prompts directly without a formal system.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score92/100

The SKILL.md is purely documentation describing a skill management CLI. It contains no executable code or dangerous instructions; it only explains command usage and format.

No concerns found

Examples

List all skills
List all available skills using the skill manager.
Show skill details
Show the details of the 'review' skill.
Render a skill with arguments
Render the 'review' skill with arguments 'Check authentication code'.

skill

Manage skills - reusable, parameterized prompts.

Usage

codegeass skill [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Commands

::: mkdocs-click :module: codegeass.cli.commands.skill :command: skill :prog_name: codegeass skill :depth: 1

Examples

List Skills

# List all available skills
codegeass skill list

# List with details
codegeass skill list --verbose

Show Skill Details

codegeass skill show review

Validate a Skill

# Validate SKILL.md format
codegeass skill validate .claude/skills/review/SKILL.md

# Validate all skills
codegeass skill validate --all

Render a Skill

Preview the rendered prompt with arguments:

codegeass skill render review "Check authentication code"

Skill Format

Skills use YAML frontmatter in SKILL.md files:

---
name: review
description: Review code for issues
context: fork
agent: Explore
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob
---

# Code Review

$ARGUMENTS

Focus on:
- Code quality
- Potential bugs
- Security issues

Frontmatter Fields

| Field | Required | Description | |-------|----------|-------------| | name | Yes | Skill identifier | | description | Yes | What the skill does | | context | No | Execution context | | agent | No | Agent type | | allowed-tools | No | Permitted tools |

Skill Locations

Skills are searched in:

  1. .claude/skills/ in the current project
  2. ~/.claude/skills/ for global skills

Using Skills with Tasks

# Create a task that uses a skill
codegeass task create \
  --name review-task \
  --schedule "0 9 * * *" \
  --mode skill \
  --skill review \
  --skill-args "Review the API module"
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