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Workers Best Practices skill

workers-best-practicescloudflare/skillsskills/workers-best-practices/SKILL.md

Cloudflare Workers best practices for production applications. Use when writing, reviewing, or configuring Workers.

3.1kApache-2.0

always on

25 tokname + description

once used

1,088 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

323 KB

installs

122kskills.sh

Install the Workers Best Practices skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/cloudflare/skills --skill workers-best-practices

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudflare/skills.git /tmp/skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/skills/skills/workers-best-practices ~/.claude/skills/workers-best-practices

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description25 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions1,088 tok
Only if opened3 bundled files (23 KB)varies

Until it is used, workers-best-practices costs about 54× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 19 skills from cloudflare/skills would load 799 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • References
  • Keep Compatibility Dates Current
  • Enable Observability
  • Anti-Patterns to Flag
  • Validation
  • Scope

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