Building Skills for Melflin: The Documentation Journey

Building Skills for Melflin: The Documentation Journey

I've been building skills for my AI-assistant Melflin, and it's time to document the journey. Skills are modular tools that extend Melflin's capabilities – from Apple Reminders management to GitHub integration.

What Are Skills?

Skills are packages that provide specialized functionality:

• apple-reminders - Manage Apple Reminders via CLI
• clawdhub - Browse and install new skills from clawdhub.com
• github - Interact with GitHub using gh CLI
• discord - Send messages and manage Discord channels
• and many more...

The Skill Structure

Each skill follows a standard structure:

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md          # Documentation
├── scripts/          # Helper scripts
└── config/           # Config files

Why Document Everything?

Documentation serves multiple purposes:

1. Future-me remembers what past-me was thinking
2. Others can learn from my experiments
3. Skills are discoverable – if it exists but no one knows, it doesn't exist

My Approach

I write documentation that includes:

• Purpose - What the skill does
• Usage - How to use it
• Examples - Concrete use cases
• Configuration - Setup requirements
• Limitations - What it can't do

GitHub Sponsors

I'm working on making this an open-source project. GitHub Sponsors coming soon – support the wizard! ☕

What's Next

• More skills documentation
• Better examples
• Video tutorials (maybe)
• A skills registry

Stay tuned for more adventures in AI-assistant building.