Prompt to Skill
Extracts a recurring prompt from your chat history and scaffolds it as a new slash command.
Entry verified April 21, 2026
The short answer
The rule of three: if you’ve typed the same instructions three times, it’s a skill. This one catches that tripwire — you paste the repeated prompt, it scaffolds the SKILL.md with purpose, when-to-use, steps, and failure modes pre-filled from your prompt.
When to use it
You catch yourself retyping a block of instructions. Don’t let the fourth time happen.
Setup
- 1
Save as ~/.claude/commands/prompt-to-skill.md. Argument: a file path or pasted prompt block.
- 2
Skill reads the prompt, identifies the implied purpose / steps / output format, and generates a SKILL.md scaffold using the template in /claude-code-skills/build-your-own.
- 3
Outputs to ~/.claude/commands/<proposed-slug>.md — you edit before saving.
Example
You: /prompt-to-skill "Run git status, check branch, if dirty stage, then commit with conventional message..."
Claude: Detected pattern: commit workflow. Proposed slug: commit-helper (collision — already exists).
Proposed slug 2: commit-strict (variant).
Scaffolded ~/.claude/commands/commit-strict.md with frontmatter + 4-step body + failure-modes section.
Review before saving.Source & attribution
- Author
- Bryan Collins
- Licence
- MIT (author's own work)
- Type
- Original
Original pattern published under MIT — attribution preserved by convention, not licence requirement.
Caveats
The scaffold is a starting point, not a finished skill — always review the failure-modes section before trusting it with mutating actions (git push, deploy, delete).
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