Skill Authoring

TDD for agent instructions. Test, write, shorten.

What Are You Doing?

Use the right reference file for your task:

• extracting-from-sessions.md — Saving knowledge from a work session into a new skill.
• generating-from-docs.md — Creating a new skill by crawling documentation websites.
• skill-lifecycle.md — Updating, deprecating, or archiving an existing skill.
• tool-design.md — Designing tool interfaces and APIs for agents.
• skill-template.md — Copy-paste template for new skills.
• format-spec.md — Frontmatter fields, directory patterns, naming rules, external tool conventions, and content organization.
• platform-guide.md — What each agent platform discovers, loads, and ignores, plus dual-harness compatibility patterns.

Note: Skill reference files must be resilient to context compaction. If an agent summarizes this routing table, ensure the distinct purpose of each file remains clear.

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