Generate Claude Code skills from any documentation URL

Ahnii! Claude Code skills are markdown playbooks that teach Claude how to approach specific types of work. Writing them by hand works, but it's slow. The Firecrawl plugin includes a skill-gen command that scrapes a documentation URL and generates a complete skill file from it. This post covers how to install the plugin, generate your first skill, and refine it into something worth keeping. Prerequisites Claude Code installed and working A documentation URL you want to turn into a skill Install the Firecrawl Plugin /install-plugin firecrawl The plugin adds several tools. The one you want is skill-gen . Generate a Skill Point skill-gen at any documentation URL. For example, to generate a skill for Taskfile : /firecrawl:skill-gen https://taskfile.dev/usage/ Firecrawl scrapes the page, extracts the key concepts, and writes a complete SKILL.md with frontmatter, usage guidelines, common patterns, and anti-patterns. The output lands in ~/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md . What You Get The