name: wiki-skillpack description: >- How to build a Skillpack — one Adom Wiki repo that bundles a main skill plus many sub-skills, installed together by a single adompkg install, with the slug suffix -skillpack so the class is recognizable. Covers the bundle layout (root SKILL.md + skills//SKILL.md), an install.sh that lists every skill, the package.json files[] whitelist, frontmatter conventions, and the skill-map table. Read BEFORE creating a new skill set so you never make a repo per skill. Trigger words: make a skillpack, super skill, bundle skills, one repo many skills, skill bundle, do not make a repo per skill, skillpack suffix, author a skill set, SKILL.md bundle, install.sh skills, wiki skill package.

Parent skill: adom-wiki-skillpack

Building a Skillpack (super-skill bundle)

A Skillpack is one wiki repo / one installable package that carries a main skill plus many sub-skills, all deployed by a single adompkg install. Use it when one author owns all the skills and they version together — see wiki-repo-styles for Skillpack-vs-Family.

The mistake to never make: do not create one wiki page per small skill. A skill as small as a tooltip spec is a file in a bundle, not its own repo. A page per skill clutters the namespace, fragments install, and duplicates metadata. If you catch yourself looping POST /pages for many small skills, stop — you want one Skillpack with many files under skills/.

The -skillpack suffix convention

A Skillpack's slug ends in -skillpack (e.g. adom-wiki-skillpack) so the class is instantly recognizable in the wiki grid and in ~/.claude/skills/. The prior example adom-ui-design predates the convention and is grandfathered; new super-skill bundles should adopt the suffix.

The bundle layout

my-thing-skillpack/            (one wiki repo, one adompkg package)
  SKILL.md                     # the main skill — REQUIRED at repo root by the registry
  README.md                    # rendered on the Overview tab; includes the skill-map table
  page.json                    # title, brief, hero, visibility
  package.json                 # version, files[] lists EVERY skill file, scripts.install/uninstall
  install.sh                   # copies the main skill AND every sub-skill to ~/.claude/skills/<name>/
  uninstall.sh                 # removes them all
  screenshots/hero.png
  skills/
    sub-a/SKILL.md             # each sub-skill: its own folder + SKILL.md
    sub-b/SKILL.md

adompkg install my-thing-skillpack then drops the main skill plus every sub-skill onto the container as separate, independently-loadable skill files.

install.sh lists every skill explicitly

The publish linter rejects an install.sh that misses any bundled sub-skill, so list each one — do not rely on a glob.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
DEST="$HOME/.claude/skills"
install_skill() { mkdir -p "$DEST/$1"; cp "$2" "$DEST/$1/SKILL.md"; }
install_skill my-thing-skillpack SKILL.md
install_skill sub-a              skills/sub-a/SKILL.md
install_skill sub-b              skills/sub-b/SKILL.md
echo "OK: Installed my-thing-skillpack plus 2 bundled skills to $DEST/."

uninstall.sh removes the same set. package.json files[] must list SKILL.md, README.md, page.json, install.sh, uninstall.sh, every skills/<sub>/SKILL.md, and any screenshots/*, plus scripts.install/scripts.uninstall.

Sub-skill naming & frontmatter

  • Name sub-skills to avoid clobbering generic names in the shared ~/.claude/skills/ dir — prefix them with the pack's domain (this pack uses wiki-*: wiki-api, wiki-hero). The folder name = the name: frontmatter.
  • First body line of each sub-skill: Parent skill: **<pack-slug>**.
  • Only name + description are pre-loaded, so the description must carry enough signal to be picked, ending with a generous list of quoted trigger phrases. Keep each body to one job; if a skill grows past one purpose, split it into another file in the same bundle.

The skill-map table

The main SKILL.md and the README.md should each carry a skill-map table (Skill | what it's for) so both the AI and humans can see the whole set and route to the right sub-skill. This is the navigational backbone of a Skillpack.

Publishing

Publish the whole package via the standard workflow (wiki-api / wiki-publish-safely): create the page once, adompkg publish the tarball, push all files to git with a complete page.json LAST, then verify in pup that adompkg install deploys every skill. The live reference for this whole pattern is adom-ui-design (and this pack itself).