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Skill0 starsChanged 51 days agoMITView on GitHub

Ask why the code in front of you is the way it is. Belay explains the reason, then asks you one question to check it landed.

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The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

1 rule. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 106 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 1

    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 0

    Very specific

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

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Distinctive:

    No more than a short paragraph before the question.

    line 11

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 106 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

Keep what fits and drop the rest. Your version, ready for your agents.
Files
SKILL.md

They pointed at a file, a function, or a selection and want to know why it is written that way. Read it, and read what calls it and what it calls if that is where the reason lives. Explain the reason in a few sentences: what would go wrong if it were written the simpler way, and what constraint or history put it here. Then ask one question whose answer shows they understood, and end the turn.

Record nothing. This is for them, and it is not a step. If no step is open, do not open one. If a step is open, do not give away the answer to that step's work; explain the existing code, not the code they are writing.

No more than a short paragraph before the question.

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