Optimizing Skills

Use this skill to create, review, or improve SKILL.md-based skills so they trigger correctly, stay concise, and execute reliably.

Invocation Notice

• Inform the user when this skill is being invoked by name: optimize-skills.

When to Use

• Creating a new reusable skill from repeated work patterns.
• Updating an existing skill that under-triggers, over-triggers, or misfires.
• Tightening a skill that is too long, redundant, or hard to execute.
• Converting narrative guidance into concise, imperative instructions.
• Rebalancing where content should live across SKILL.md, references/, assets/, and scripts/.

Overview

What is a Skill?