Claude Skills — Mechanical Design Engineer

A collection of custom skills for Claude.ai that transform the assistant into an expert mechanical design engineer with 20+ years of experience.

Repository structure

skills-claude/
├── README.md
├── compress-skills.sh          # Script to generate .zip packages
└── <skill-name>/
    ├── SKILL.md                # Main instructions (YAML frontmatter + markdown)
    ├── reference/              # Technical reference documentation
    │   └── *.md
    └── scripts/                # Executable helper scripts
        └── *.py / *.sh

Prerequisites

• unzip — required by decompress-skills.sh to extract .skill archives

  sudo apt install unzip   # Debian/Ubuntu/WSL
  brew install unzip       # macOS
  

• Python 3 + PyYAML — required by skill scripts

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

How to install skills on Claude.ai

1. Generate .zip files

chmod +x compress-skills.sh
./compress-skills.sh

The .zip files are created in the dist/ folder.

2. Upload to Claude.ai

1. Go to claude.ai → Settings
2. Section Features → Skills
3. Click Upload skill and upload each .zip file from dist/
4. Repeat for every skill

3. Use the skills

Invoke skills with a slash command in chat:

/<skill-name> [problem description]

Skill format (Anthropic spec)

The SKILL.md file contains:

• YAML frontmatter with name, description, user-invocable
• Markdown instructions that define Claude's behaviour

---
name: skill-name
description: What this skill does and when to invoke it
user-invocable: true
argument-hint: [optional argument]
---

# Skill Title

[Detailed instructions in markdown]

References

• ANTHROPIC-SKILLS-DOCS.md — full reference extracted from official docs (structure, frontmatter, best practices, API)
• Anthropic Skills Documentation
• Agent Skills API
• Skill Authoring Best Practices