/create-shortcut - Local Skill Factory

Create real local skills (.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md) that show up as /commands in autocomplete.

Usage

/create-shortcut                              # list local skills
/create-shortcut list                         # same, with numbers
/create-shortcut list --mine                  # only stamped skills (installer: create-shortcut)
/create-shortcut list --untagged              # only skills with no installer: field
/create-shortcut create deploy "Run tests then deploy"
/create-shortcut delete deploy                # delete by name
/create-shortcut delete 3                     # delete by number
/create-shortcut --cleanup                    # interactive bulk-archive of --mine skills
/create-shortcut --cleanup --auto             # auto-archive anything stamped + unused 30d+

How It Works

Creates a SKILL.md in .claude/skills/<name>/ (project-local) or ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ (global with --global).

The skill immediately appears in / autocomplete after creation.

Mode 1: List (default)

Scan both local and global skills directories:

LOCAL_DIR=".claude/skills"
GLOBAL_DIR="$HOME/.claude/skills"

For each directory, list skill folders and show:

⚡ Local Skills (.claude/skills/)

   1. deploy              Run tests then deploy to prod
   2. lint-fix            Fix all linting errors
   3. db-migrate          Run database migrations

⚡ Global Skills (~/.claude/skills/)

   4. trace (v3.4.8)      [core] Find projects, code...
   5. recap (v3.4.8)      [core] Session orientation...
   ...

Delete local: /create-shortcut delete <name or number>

Mark core (arra-oracle-skills-cli installed) skills with [core]. Mark stamped skills (with installer: create-shortcut in frontmatter) with [mine] plus a relative-age hint (e.g. 2d ago). Local skills with no installer: field have no tag (origin unknown).

Filter flags

/create-shortcut list                # default — all local + global, marks [core] / [mine]
/create-shortcut list --mine         # only skills with `installer: create-shortcut`
/create-shortcut list --untagged     # only skills with NO `installer:` field (origin unknown)

For --mine and --untagged, the listing additionally shows:

• created_at age (e.g. "2 days ago", "3 weeks ago") — pulled from the frontmatter created_at: field for --mine; absent for --untagged.
• Approximate usage count — derived by greping the command name across ~/.claude/projects/*/*.jsonl session files (read-only, no stored counter — counts stay computed, not persisted).

Example --mine output:

⚡ Your skills (installer: create-shortcut)

   1. deploy              [mine] 2d ago      · used 7×    Run tests then deploy
   2. read-and-deep-...   [mine] 1d ago      · used 1×    Read a target and deep-analyse...
   3. resonance           [mine] 3w ago      · used 24×   Capture a resonance moment...

Bulk-archive: /create-shortcut --cleanup

Implementation hint: parse each SKILL.md frontmatter (top YAML block between --- lines) and check for the installer: key. --mine keeps only installer: create-shortcut; --untagged keeps only entries with no installer: key at all. Core skills (installer: arra-oracle-skills-cli ...) are excluded from both filtered views.

Mode 2: Create

/create-shortcut create <name> [description]

If description not provided, ask:

What should /<name> do?

Then create the skill:

SKILL_DIR=".claude/skills/<name>"
mkdir -p "$SKILL_DIR"

Write SKILL.md with a provenance stamp in the frontmatter (so the skill can later be filtered via --mine and bulk-cleaned via --cleanup):

---
name: <name>
description: <description>
installer: create-shortcut
created_at: <ISO 8601 timestamp with timezone, e.g. 2026-05-14T04:15:00+07:00>
created_session: <first 8 chars of $CLAUDE_SESSION_ID, optional but nice>
---

# /<name>

<description>

## Step 0: Init

Chain date with the first real command — never call date alone (saves 1 tool call):

\```bash
date "+🕐 %H:%M %Z (%A %d %B %Y)" && <first-real-command-here>
\```

## Instructions

<Ask user what the skill should do, or generate from description>

---

ARGUMENTS: $ARGUMENTS

Generating the stamp values:

# created_at — ISO 8601 with local timezone offset
CREATED_AT="$(date -Iseconds 2>/dev/null || date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)"

# created_session — first 8 chars of session id (skip silently if unset)
CREATED_SESSION="${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID:0:8}"

These three fields (installer, created_at, created_session) are always written for new skills created via this mode. They are the audit trail — without them, a skill created here is indistinguishable from one created by hand.

After creating, confirm:

✅ Created /<name>

  📁 .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
  📝 <description>

  Try it: /<name>

With --global flag

/create-shortcut create deploy "Deploy to prod" --global

Creates in ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills/.

Mode 3: Delete

/create-shortcut delete <name or number>

1. Find the skill (by name or list number)
2. Show its content
3. Ask confirmation: "Delete /<name>? (yes/no)"
4. If yes:
   • Move to trash (Nothing is Deleted): mv .claude/skills/<name> .claude/skills/.trash/<name>_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)
   • Create .trash/ if needed: mkdir -p .claude/skills/.trash
   • Confirm: "Archived: /<name> → .claude/skills/.trash/"
5. If no: "Kept: /<name>"

Only delete local skills. Never delete global/core skills — warn instead:

⚠️ <name> is a core skill (installed by arra-oracle-skills-cli).
   Use 'arra-oracle-skills uninstall -s <name>' to remove it.

Mode 4: Auto-Create (catch unknown commands)

When the agent encounters an unknown /slash-command (e.g. "Unknown skill: resonance", "skill not found: push-further", or any unrecognized /command), this skill activates automatically.

Flow

1. Parse the command name from the error or user input (e.g. /resonance → resonance)
2. Infer intent from the command name + current conversation context
   • /resonance → "capture a resonance moment to ψ/memory/resonance/"
   • /push-further → "challenge the current approach, suggest improvements"
   • /deploy-staging → "deploy the project to staging environment"
3. Execute immediately — do what the user intended, don't block on skill creation
4. Offer to save: after executing, ask:

   Save as /command for next time? (yes/no)

5. If yes → create a minimal SKILL.md stub using Mode 2 (create), pre-filled with:
   • Name from the command
   • Description inferred from what was just executed
   • Instructions based on the action taken
   • Provenance stamp — same as Mode 2: installer: create-shortcut, created_at: (ISO 8601 + tz), created_session: (first 8 chars of $CLAUDE_SESSION_ID). Auto-created skills must be stamped too — that's how --cleanup later finds them.
6. If no → done, one-shot execution only

Intent Inference Rules

• Treat the command name as a natural language hint: split on -, read as phrase
• Use conversation context (last few messages) to disambiguate
• If intent is truly ambiguous, ask ONE clarifying question before executing
• Never refuse — always attempt something reasonable

Example

User: /resonance
Agent: [sees "Unknown skill: resonance"]
→ Infers: "capture a resonance moment"
→ Creates ψ/memory/resonance/<timestamp>.md with context
→ "Save as /resonance for next time? (yes/no)"
→ User: "yes"
→ Creates .claude/skills/resonance/SKILL.md
→ "/resonance is now a real command"

Key Principle

"You think it, you slash it, it exists."

Skills create themselves from usage. The user never hits a dead end.

Mode 5: Cleanup (interactive bulk archive)

/create-shortcut --cleanup

Bulk-archive skills you created via /create-shortcut (anything stamped with installer: create-shortcut). Six months of accumulated one-shot skills, gone in one gesture — without touching [core] skills or hand-made externals.

Flow

1. Scan both .claude/skills/ (local) and ~/.claude/skills/ (global). Read each SKILL.md frontmatter and keep only entries with installer: create-shortcut.
2. Enrich each candidate with:
   • Age — relative form of created_at (e.g. "2 days ago", "3 weeks ago"). If created_at is missing, show "age unknown".
   • Last invoked — grep the command name (e.g. /deploy) across ~/.claude/projects/*/*.jsonl and report days since the most recent match (e.g. "used 4d ago", "never used").
   • Description — first non-empty line of the description: field, truncated to ~60 chars.
3. Multi-select picker using @clack/prompts multiselect (same library + style as the existing skill picker elsewhere in the CLI). Each row:

   ◯ deploy            [local]  2d ago    used 4d ago    Build, test, deploy to prod
   ◯ resonance-lite    [global] 3w ago    never used     Capture small resonance moments
   ◯ pr-review         [local]  6mo ago   used 5mo ago   Review the current PR with checklist

   Pre-checked rows: anything never used OR last-used >30 days ago. User can toggle freely before confirming.
4. Archive selected skills to .trash/<name>_<unix-timestamp> in their respective skills directory (Nothing-is-Deleted, same convention as Mode 3):

   TS="$(date +%s)"
   mkdir -p "$(dirname "$SKILL")/.trash"
   mv "$SKILL" "$(dirname "$SKILL")/.trash/<name>_${TS}"

5. Print summary:

   ✅ Archived 7 skills.
   
      Recover any of them via:
        mv .claude/skills/.trash/<name>_<ts> .claude/skills/<name>

If nothing matches the scan (no stamped skills found), print:

No skills with `installer: create-shortcut` found.
Tip: only skills created after the provenance-stamp release show up here.
Older user skills can be retroactively migrated with `--migrate` (future).

Flag: --cleanup --auto

/create-shortcut --cleanup --auto

Skips the interactive picker and archives everything matching the auto-prune rule:

• installer: create-shortcut (stamped by us), AND
• created_at is older than 30 days, AND
• last invocation is older than 30 days (or never invoked).

Default behavior is OFF — you must opt in with --auto. Designed for power users who trust the heuristic and want a one-keystroke sweep. Still archives to .trash/ (recoverable, never destroyed).

Boundaries

• Never touches skills with installer: arra-oracle-skills-cli ... (those are [core]; use arra-oracle-skills uninstall instead).
• Never touches skills with no installer: field (those are [untagged] — origin unknown, not safe to assume the user made them via this skill).
• Always moves to .trash/, never deletes outright. Recovery is a single mv away. Nothing is Deleted.

Examples

/create-shortcut create deploy "Build, test, and deploy to Cloudflare Workers"
/create-shortcut create db-seed "Reset and seed the development database"
/create-shortcut create pr-review "Review the current PR with checklist"
/create-shortcut create morning "Run standup + check inbox + show schedule"

ARGUMENTS: $ARGUMENTS