Create Skill Version

POST/v1/skills/{skill_id}/versions

Path parameters

skill_id: string

Unique identifier for the skill.

The format and length of IDs may change over time.

Body (form-data)

files: array of string

Files to upload for the skill.

All files must be in the same top-level directory and must include a SKILL.md file at the root of that directory.

Returns

SkillVersion object{ id, created_at, description, 3 more }

id: string

Unique identifier for this Skill Version. The id addresses the version in paths and pins it in references.

created_at: string

ISO 8601 timestamp of when the skill was created.

formatdate-time

description: string

Description of the skill version.

This is extracted from the SKILL.md file in the skill upload.

name: string

The Skill's immutable kebab-case slug, set at creation from the first upload's SKILL.md frontmatter name (or its enclosing directory). Every later upload must resolve to the same value. Also the top-level directory of the Skill's mounted files and the base name of a downloaded archive.

skill_id: string

Unique identifier for the skill.

The format and length of IDs may change over time.

type: "skill_version"

Object type.

For Skill Versions, this is always "skill_version".

defaultskill_version

Create Skill Version

curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/skills/$SKILL_ID/versions \
    -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
    -H 'anthropic-version: 2023-06-01' \
    -H "X-Api-Key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" \
    -F files='["Example data"]'

{
  "id": "id",
  "created_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z",
  "description": "description",
  "name": "name",
  "skill_id": "skill_01JAbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw",
  "type": "skill_version"
}

Returns Examples

{
  "id": "id",
  "created_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z",
  "description": "description",
  "name": "name",
  "skill_id": "skill_01JAbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw",
  "type": "skill_version"
}