Writing Skills

When to use

• Creating a new skill
• Editing an existing skill
• Skill needs to resist rationalization under pressure

Skip when

• Writing pure reference skill (API docs) → no rules to test
• Skill has no compliance costs → no rationalization risk

Related

Complementary: ring:testing-skills-with-subagents

Writing skills IS TDD applied to process documentation.

Same Iron Law: No skill without failing test first.
Same cycle: RED (baseline) → GREEN (write skill) → REFACTOR (close loopholes).