Quick Start Guide

Quick Start Guide

Get started with Claude Code Skills Marketplace in less than 2 minutes!

For Skill Creators

Want to create your own skills? Start here!

Step 1: Install skill-creator

# Add the marketplace
claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills

# Marketplace name: daymade-skills (from marketplace.json)
# Install skill-creator
claude plugin install skill-creator@daymade-skills

Step 2: Initialize Your First Skill

# Create a new skill from template
skill-creator/scripts/init_skill.py my-first-skill --path ~/my-skills

This generates:

~/my-skills/my-first-skill/
├── SKILL.md                  # Main skill file
├── scripts/                  # Executable code
│   └── example_script.py
├── references/               # Documentation
│   └── example_reference.md
└── assets/                   # Templates/resources
    └── example_asset.txt

Step 3: Customize Your Skill

Edit `~/my-skills/my-first-skill

Code Examples

README.md

# Skill Demonstrations

This directory contains automated demonstrations of each skill using [VHS (Video Home System)](https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs) by Charmbracelet.

VHS allows you to write terminal recordings as code, making demos reproducible, version-controllable, and typo-free.

## 📁 Demo Structure

demos/ ├── skill-creator/ │ ├── init-skill.tape # Initialize a new skill │ ├── validate-skill.tape # Validate skill quality │ └── package-skill.tape # Package for distribution ├── github-ops/ │ └── create-pr.tape # Create pull requests ├── markdown-tools/ │ └── convert-docs.tape # Convert documents └── generate_all_demos.sh # Generate all GIFs

## 🎬 Generating Demos

### Prerequisites

Install VHS:

**macOS:**
```bash
brew install vhs

Linux (with Go):

go install github.com/charmbracelet/vhs@latest

Or download from: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/releases

Generate All Demos

### generate_all_demos.sh

#!/bin/bash set -e

echo "================================================" echo "Generating Claude Code Skills Demo GIFs" echo "================================================" echo ""

Colors for output

GREEN='\033[0;32m' YELLOW='\033[1;33m' RED='\033[0;31m' NC='\033[0m' # No Color

Check if VHS is installed

if ! command -v vhs &> /dev/null; then echo -e "${RED}Error: VHS is not installed!${NC}" echo "" echo "Install VHS to generate demo GIFs:" echo "" echo "macOS:" echo " brew install vhs" echo "" echo "Linux (with Go):" echo " go install github.com/charmbracelet/vhs@latest" echo "" echo "Or download from: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/releases" echo "" exit 1 fi

echo -e "${GREEN}✓ VHS found${NC}" echo ""

Find all .tape files

TAPE_FILES=$(find demos -name "*.tape" -type f | sort) TOTAL=$(echo "$TAPE_FILES" | wc -l | tr -d ' ') CURRENT=0

echo "Found $TOTAL demo tape files" echo ""

Generate each demo

for tape_fi

### index.html