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Will Claude Code call your skill on its own? 38 runs, one skill, seven ways to describe it

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We gave Claude Code one commit-message skill, changed only how it was described, and ran a small set of requests against it 38 times in headless mode. "Helps with git stuff." was called 0 times in 6 runs; a specific description, the same vague line plus a when_to_use field, and a file with no front…

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  1. 2026-09-20 02:17 · DEV Community — AI
    Will Claude Code call your skill on its own? 38 runs, one skill, seven ways to describe it

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