Designing Workflow Skills
Skill Verified ActiveGuides the design and structuring of workflow-based Claude Code skills with multi-step phases, decision trees, subagent delegation, and progressive disclosure. Use when creating skills that involve sequential pipelines, routing patterns, safety gates, task tracking, phased execution, or any multi-step workflow. Also applies when reviewing or refactoring existing workflow skills for quality.
Empowers developers to build well-structured, reliable, and maintainable workflow-based Claude Code skills by providing clear design patterns and best practices.
Features
- Guides workflow skill design and structuring
- Defines essential principles for reliable execution
- Provides pattern selection based on workflow complexity
- Details structural anatomy and file organization
- Catalogs common anti-patterns with fixes
Use Cases
- Designing new skills with multi-step workflows
- Structuring skills for routing, safety gates, or task tracking
- Reviewing and refactoring existing workflow skills
- Deciding how to split content between SKILL.md, references/, and workflows/
Non-Goals
- Writing the actual domain content of a skill
- Plugin configuration or development
- Non-skill Claude Code development
- Providing specific domain expertise (focus is on structure)
Trust
- info:Issues Attention13 issues opened, 4 closed in the last 90 days (closure rate < 25%), indicating slower response to issues.
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add trailofbits/skills/plugin install workflow-skill-design@trailofbitsQuality Score
VerifiedTrust Signals
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