The FormsByAir form-authoring skill teaches Claude how FormsByAir forms are built — the XSD schema, annotations, tags, integration maps, templates and the platform’s rules — so it can create and change forms with you. It also carries our form-design conventions, so a form Claude builds looks like one of yours: repeaters where a paper form had numbered copies, conditional questions instead of “if yes” wording, the right question types, required fields, third-party requests for parts completed by someone else.

It works alongside the connector, which signs in with your FormsByAir login and lets Claude list, download, upload and deploy forms.

Download the latest skill: formsbyair-form-authoring.zip

Install

Claude Desktop and claude.ai: download the zip, then open Customize (Settings on the web) → Skills → Add skill and choose the file. To update, remove the older FormsByAir Form Authoring skill first, then add the new zip. Start a new conversation afterwards.

Claude Code (terminal, or the Code tab in Claude Desktop): ask Claude to install it — the connector’s check_skill tool hands it the exact command — or run one of these yourself. The skill is picked up immediately.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && curl -sSL https://docs.formsbyair.com/skill/formsbyair-form-authoring.zip -o /tmp/fba-skill.zip && unzip -oq /tmp/fba-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills && rm /tmp/fba-skill.zip

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force "$HOME\.claude\skills" | Out-Null; Invoke-WebRequest https://docs.formsbyair.com/skill/formsbyair-form-authoring.zip -OutFile "$env:TEMP\fba-skill.zip"; Expand-Archive "$env:TEMP\fba-skill.zip" -DestinationPath "$HOME\.claude\skills" -Force; Remove-Item "$env:TEMP\fba-skill.zip"

Keeping it current

The skill is versioned by date, shown at the bottom of its instructions (for example 2026.9.10). The connector knows the latest published version and tells Claude whenever the one it’s using is older, so you’ll be prompted to update rather than having to remember. New versions are published with each documentation update that affects form authoring.