We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

8 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 6 are very specific to this project.

• ≈0

  Common · estimate

  Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

• ≈2

  Distinctive · estimate

  This author's own choices. Worth a look.

• 6

  Very specific

  Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

• Common
• Distinctive
• Very specific

1. Very specific:

   Use the NeMo Retriever MCP tools exposed under retriever instead of the retriever CLI.

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2. Very specific:

   Use query to search documents already available to Retriever.

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3. Distinctive:

   Never ingest documents that are already searchable, including documents in a prebuilt index.

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4. Very specific:

   Use ingest_documents only when required documents are not yet searchable and server-readable paths are explicitly available.

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5. Very specific:

   After ingestion completes, use query to retrieve evidence from the added documents.

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6. Very specific:

   Start with top_k=5 and format="hits".

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7. Distinctive:

   Read evidence hits from the tool response and ground your answer in them.

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8. Very specific:

   If query fails, inspect the error and retry with corrected parameters or a shorter equivalent query.

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.