---
title: "Skills"
description: "Skills teach Claude Code a workflow once and reuse it in every session. Learn command skills, reference skills, skill composition and how to write your own."
canonical: "https://orchestkit.dev/docs/skills"
---

# Skills

Skills teach Claude Code a workflow once and reuse it in every session. Learn command skills, reference skills, skill composition and how to write your own.

import { Card, Cards } from 'fumadocs-ui/components/card';

Skills package a workflow as Markdown plus frontmatter. User-invocable ones surface as slash commands; the rest load on demand when their triggers match.

<Cards>
  <Card
    title="Overview"
    description="What a skill is and how Claude Code loads one."
    href="/docs/skills/overview"
  />
  <Card
    title="Command skills"
    description="User-invocable skills that surface as slash commands."
    href="/docs/skills/command-skills"
  />
  <Card
    title="Reference skills"
    description="Pattern libraries loaded on demand rather than invoked."
    href="/docs/skills/reference-skills"
  />
  <Card
    title="Skill composition"
    description="Chaining skills so one workflow feeds the next."
    href="/docs/skills/skill-composition"
  />
  <Card
    title="Writing skills"
    description="Authoring standards, frontmatter, and the size budget."
    href="/docs/skills/writing-skills"
  />
  <Card
    title="Dependency graph"
    description="Which skills depend on which, visualized."
    href="/docs/skills/dependency-graph"
  />
</Cards>