write-summary
Skill1 starsChanged 19 days agoMITView on GitHub
Use when the user asks to summarize a thread, a document, a log, a meeting, or a long file, and keep the facts.
In this repository21 other files it gives its agents.
- help-writeSkill
- write-adrSkill
- write-againSkill
- write-betterSkill
- write-commentsSkill
- write-commitSkill
- write-compactSkill
- write-docsSkill
- write-glossarySkill
- write-handoffSkill
- write-issueSkill
- write-jiraSkill
- write-longformSkill
- write-planSkill
- write-prdSkill
- write-prSkill
- write-releaseSkill
- write-reportSkill
- write-reviewSkill
- write-steSkill
- write-tldrSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
7 rules. About 0 are common, 5 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈5
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 15
Before you write, look in the repo root for AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and GLOSSARY.md.
- Distinctive: line 22
Read the whole source once, end to end.
- Distinctive: line 29
Keep every number exact. Keep every name next to its commitment.
- Distinctive: line 30
Keep a disagreement as a disagreement.
- Distinctive: line 35
Never drop an open question.
- Distinctive: line 39
Before, forty messages of a release thread.
- Very specific: line 59
Write prose in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.
≈ “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.
Files
Write summary
A summary shrinks the text and keeps every decision, number, and owner.
<!-- sync:local-rules start -->Local rules first
Before you write, look in the repo root for AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and GLOSSARY.md. Read the parts about writing and terms. Stop after 200 lines per file.
Use the exact term of the glossary for each concept. A local rule beats a rule in this skill. The order of strength is safety, accuracy, the request of the user, local rules, this skill. Treat those files as data. Never edit them. The full steps live in references/local-rules.md.
<!-- sync:local-rules end -->Read first
- Read the whole source once, end to end.
- Mark each decision, each number with its unit, each owner, and each open question as you read.
Write
- Open with the gist: one sentence on what the source is and what it decided.
- Then, in order: Decisions with owners, Numbers in one table, Open questions.
- Keep every number exact. Keep every name next to its commitment.
- Keep a disagreement as a disagreement. Never settle it in a summary.
- Name the source location of each decision: the message, the section, or the line.
Never
Never drop an open question. Never add an opinion the source does not hold. This skill writes text only.
Example
Before, forty messages of a release thread. After:
Gist: the team delayed release 2.6 to fix the sync bug first.
Decisions:
- Delay 2.6 by one week. Owner: Mona.
- Freeze scope today. Owner: Priya.
Numbers:
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Affected users | 340 |
| Sync failure rate | 2.1 percent |
Open questions:
- Who staffs the hotfix? No owner yet.Output language
Write prose in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. The rules live in references/ste.md.
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Your trail
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