Add guidance on keeping skill descriptions general#1635
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…create Add a paragraph and examples to the "Writing the description" section explaining that descriptions should cover the broad topic of the skill, not focus on one specific aspect. Also add a corresponding quality checklist item and bump the skill version to 1.4. Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/usethis-python/usethis-python/sessions/f4c422aa-c175-4363-9955-39a106d977bf Co-authored-by: nathanjmcdougall <18602289+nathanjmcdougall@users.noreply.github.com>
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[WIP] Update agent config to generalize description field for skills
Add guidance on keeping skill descriptions general
Mar 29, 2026
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Skill descriptions were being written too narrowly, focusing on one specific aspect rather than the skill's broad topic. This adds guidance to the
usethis-skills-createskill on how to formulate thedescription:frontmatter field."Maintain AGENTS.md and agent skill configuration""Enforce the one-source-of-truth principle for AGENTS.md"📱 Kick off Copilot coding agent tasks wherever you are with GitHub Mobile, available on iOS and Android.