Goal
Treat agent skills as reusable task guidance with discoverable triggers and bounded permissions.
Step-by-step
- Choose a recurring need.
- inspect instructions.
- test a representative request.
- remove guidance that does not help.
Worked scenario
Keep a design critique skill out of a backend-only task.
Write down the current behavior, the intended change, and the evidence you would need before deciding it worked. Use synthetic or anonymized material for exploration.
Acceptance check
The skill applies to its task without capturing unrelated work.
Common failure
A convincing artifact can hide untested assumptions. Keep an explicit list of unknowns and test the highest-consequence transition before expanding the work.
Next step
Apply the guide to one bounded task, review the evidence, and adjust the approach. The linked reference is a separate publication; this guide is Knoveya's independent treatment of the topic.