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How to write a SKILL.md description that actually triggers

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You wrote a skill, put the folder in the right place, started a new session, asked for exactly the thing the skill does, and the agent ignored it. This is the most common complaint about Agent Skills, and the cause is almost always the same line: the description in the frontmatter. This guide expla…

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  1. 2026-10-29 06:04 · DEV Community — AI
    How to write a SKILL.md description that actually triggers

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