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The core approach to improving the distinctiveness of Skill descriptions is to write not 'what this Skill is' but 'when to use it'; Anthropic officially emphasizes that the description should include trigger scenarios.
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65%
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Medium-term (~90 days)
Relevance
7/20/2026
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Valid until: 10/18/2026(expired)
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UnverifiedAnthropic officially emphasizes that the description of a Skill should include trigger scenarios, not just a functional introduction.82% similarVerifiedImproving the distinctiveness of Skill descriptions can increase the hit rate; the writing approach should shift from 'what this Skill is' to 'when to use it.'80% similarUnverifiedThe definition description of each Skill is injected into the context upon activation; even if that Skill is not used in the current task, its description text still occupies token space79% similarUnverifiedTheo believes that the description field of a skill should not fundamentally be called a description but rather a trigger, whose purpose is to attract the right agent to invoke it in the right task.76% similarUnverifiedThe technical essence of a Skill is a combination of tool use and prompt engineering, taking the form of predefined structured prompt templates or custom scripts.74% similar
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