> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://www.christiandussol.dev/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://www.christiandussol.dev/ai-native/skills-series/part-2-building-a-real-skill-kyverno-policy-generator.md).

# Part 2: Building a real Skill: kyverno-policy-generator

## Generate: a Skill produces production-ready code

The second part documents the construction of a working Skill from zero. The `kyverno-policy-generator` takes a natural-language intent and produces a tested, validated Kyverno ClusterPolicy with the right match blocks, validation rules, and failure actions.

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### What the article covers

* Step-by-step construction following Anthropic's official Skills guide
* The six principles I extracted from that guide and applied
* `SKILL.md` frontmatter design, invocation triggers, exclusions
* The validation scripts that turn a Skill from a prompt template into reliable infrastructure
* Why packaging expertise beats copy-pasting prompts

### Read

* **Medium article**: [I built a Claude Code Skill for Kubernetes Governance. Here’s what I learned.](https://medium.com/@christian.dussol/i-built-a-claude-code-skill-for-kyverno-heres-what-i-learned-5dad32c2fbab)
* **GitHub**: [github.com/christian-dussol-cloud-native/kyverno/tree/main/skills](https://github.com/christian-dussol-cloud-native/kyverno/tree/main/skills)