skill-chain

A free agent skill that turns a repeated, multi-step workflow into a skill chain: a set of small skills that run in order, where each step's output feeds the next. Instead of asking AI to do a whole job in one giant prompt, you break it into steps you can review, swap, and rerun.

Built by Kyle Chalmers (KC AI Labs). I teach practical AI for people who run businesses on YouTube: @kylechalmersdataai.

What it does

Point it at a workflow you repeat and it walks you through the design, then scaffolds the skill files for you:

• Checks whether the workflow is even worth chaining (you repeat it, its steps feed each other, it varies each time, you want to review along the way).
• Breaks it into steps, and notes what each one produces and where you would review.
• Writes a one-page pipeline guide and stubs out a SKILL.md for each step.

You end with a map and a folder of skill stubs ready to fill in.

What a "skill" is

A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md inside: a name, a description full of the phrases you would say to trigger it, and a workflow the agent follows. Your agent loads it on demand. That is all this repo is: one well-written SKILL.md.

Install

Claude Code, copy the folder (simplest)

git clone https://github.com/kyle-chalmers/skill-chain.git
cp -r skill-chain/skills/skill-chain ~/.claude/skills/

Then start Claude Code and say: design a skill chain for <your workflow>.

Claude Code, as a plugin (one command)

This repo is also a Claude Code plugin marketplace. From inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add kyle-chalmers/skill-chain
/plugin install skill-chain@skill-chain

Updates then come with /plugin update. The manifests are at .claude-plugin/; the skill lives at skills/skill-chain/.

Other AI agents

The skill is a plain SKILL.md with only name and description in the frontmatter, so it works with any agent that loads skills from a folder. Drop skills/skill-chain/ wherever your agent looks for skills.

Use it

Once installed, describe a workflow you repeat:

design a skill chain for how I handle a new inbound lead:
intake the lead, research the company, decide if they're a fit,
draft a tailored intro email, and queue them in my CRM

It will interview you, lay out the steps and handoffs, mark where you would review, and scaffold the files.

License

MIT. Use it, fork it, ship it. See LICENSE.