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How to Create a Reusable 'Meta-Skill' for Generating Claude Skills with Cursor

Learn the author's preferred method for building a powerful 'meta-skill' inside the Cursor editor. This workflow uses Anthropic's official documentation to create a reusable agent that can quickly generate new, well-structured Claude Skills on demand.

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How to Create a Reusable 'Meta-Skill' for Generating Claude Skills with Cursor

Tools Used

Cursor

AI-first code editor

Claude

Anthropic AI assistant

Claude Code

Claude for coding tasks

Step-by-Step Guide

1

Set Up Your Workspace

Create a new, empty folder on your computer to serve as a repository for all your skills (e.g., claude-skills). Open this folder directly in the Cursor editor.

2

Initiate Skill Creation in Cursor

Start a new chat with Cursor's built-in AI assistant. The goal is to ask it to build a skill that can, in turn, build other skills.

Pro Tip: Having a dedicated folder for all your skills keeps your workspace organized and makes it easy for tools like Claude Code to discover them.
3

Prompt with Official Documentation

Provide the AI with the official Anthropic Skills Documentation as context to ensure the output is accurate. Use a clear prompt asking it to create the 'meta-skill'.

Prompt:
Create me a agent/skill for creating Claude skills. Here are the docs: https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/skills-overview
4

Review the Generated Skill

Cursor will generate a new folder (e.g., create_skill) containing a SKILL.md instruction file, templates, and even a Python validation script. Review these files to understand the structure of a well-formed skill.

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