enhance-skill-by-derailment

Installation
SKILL.md

Enhance Skill by Derailment

Improve a skill by making a subagent use it on a real task, reading the execution trace for friction, and fixing the skill text where it broke.

When to use

Use this skill if you are:

  • testing whether a SKILL.md actually holds up when an agent uses it ("test my skill", "is this skill any good", "does this skill work")
  • hardening an existing skill before publishing it or relying on it
  • diagnosing why an agent keeps drifting, guessing, or stalling on a skill that "should" work
  • running a derailment / friction-trace pass on a draft skill
  • post-edit verifying that a fix to a skill actually closed the friction it was meant to close
  • deciding which lines, examples, or routing cues in a skill are load-bearing vs dead weight

Do NOT use this skill if you are:

  • creating a new skill from scratch — use synthesize-skills
  • rewriting a one-off task prompt for an agent (not a skill) — that is out of scope for this pack
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Mar 25, 2026