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feat: enhance skill-development description with stronger triggers#7

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@sjnims sjnims commented Dec 7, 2025

Summary

Enhance the skill-development skill description with stronger trigger phrases to improve Claude's ability to recognize when this skill should be activated.

Problem

Fixes #3

The skill-development skill had only 5 trigger phrases, making it the weakest description among the 7 plugin-dev skills. As a meta-skill teaching description best practices, it should exemplify those practices.

Solution

Added 8 new trigger phrases following the gold-standard pattern from hook-development:

New trigger phrases:

  • "SKILL.md format" - file reference
  • "skill frontmatter" - technical term
  • "skill triggers" - technical term
  • "trigger phrases for skills" - concept
  • "progressive disclosure" - already existed, now quoted
  • "skill references folder" - folder reference
  • "skill examples folder" - folder reference
  • "validate skill" - action phrase

Also expanded keywords:

  • Added: file organization, writing style

Alternatives Considered

  • Minimal enhancement: Only add 3-4 phrases. Rejected because the issue requested at least 10 total.
  • Maximum enhancement: Add 20+ phrases. Rejected to avoid cluttering the description and stay well under the 1024 char limit.

Changes

  • plugins/plugin-dev/skills/skill-development/SKILL.md: Updated description frontmatter field

Acceptance Criteria

  • Description includes at least 10 specific trigger phrases (now has 13)
  • Covers file/folder references (SKILL.md, references/, examples/)
  • Includes technical terms (frontmatter, triggers, progressive disclosure)
  • Maintains third-person format ("This skill should be used when...")
  • Stays under 1024 character limit (484 chars)

Testing

  • Markdownlint passes
  • Character count verified (484 < 1024)

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Add 8 new trigger phrases to improve skill activation:
- "SKILL.md format", "skill frontmatter", "skill triggers"
- "trigger phrases for skills", "progressive disclosure"
- "skill references folder", "skill examples folder", "validate skill"

Also expanded keyword coverage: file organization, writing style.

Total trigger phrases: 13 (was 5)
Character count: 484 (under 1024 limit)

Fixes #3

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claude Bot commented Dec 7, 2025

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PR Review Complete ✅

Summary

Looks good - approve and merge! This PR successfully enhances the skill-development skill description with strong trigger phrases, addressing issue #3.

What's Good

Trigger Phrase Quality: Added 8 well-chosen trigger phrases that follow best practices:

  • File references: "SKILL.md format", "skill references folder", "skill examples folder"
  • Technical terms: "skill frontmatter", "skill triggers", "progressive disclosure"
  • Concept phrases: "trigger phrases for skills"
  • Action phrases: "validate skill"

Quantitative Improvement: Increased from 5 to 13 trigger phrases (160% increase), meeting the "at least 10" requirement.

Expanded Keywords: Added "file organization" and "writing style" to broaden triggering scope.

Character Budget: 484 characters is well under the 1024 limit (only 47% utilized), leaving room for future enhancements.

Writing Style: Maintains proper third-person format ("This skill should be used when...").

Meta-Skill Alignment: As a skill about skill development, this now exemplifies the trigger phrase best practices it teaches.

Markdown Linting

✅ No issues found - markdownlint passes cleanly.

Checklist Verification

All acceptance criteria met:

  • ✅ Description includes at least 10 specific trigger phrases (has 13)
  • ✅ Covers file/folder references (SKILL.md, references/, examples/)
  • ✅ Includes technical terms (frontmatter, triggers, progressive disclosure)
  • ✅ Maintains third-person format
  • ✅ Stays under 1024 character limit (484 chars)
  • ✅ Markdownlint passes

No Issues Found

This is a clean, focused enhancement that does exactly what it says. No changes needed.


@sjnims sjnims self-assigned this Dec 7, 2025
@claude claude Bot added enhancement New feature or request component:skill Skills layer effort:small < 1 hour labels Dec 7, 2025
@sjnims sjnims merged commit a14e9a6 into main Dec 7, 2025
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@sjnims sjnims deleted the feat/3-enhance-skill-development-triggers branch December 7, 2025 22:59
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