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Making a Claude Code Skill Trigger Reliably — and How to Measure It
A perfectly written skill that never fires is worthless. Whether it fires is decided by one thing — its description — and you can measure and tune that instead of guessing.
Writing a Claude Code Skill That Mutates a Real Store
Most skills hand back text or a file — a mistake there is a bad paragraph. A skill that writes to a live database or content store is different: a mistake is duplicated, corrupted, or lost data. The build discipline has to change with it.
Where Claude Code Skills Live — and the Rule That Keeps Them Tracked
You spent an afternoon building a skill. By default it landed in a personal folder that no repo sees and no teammate has. That's real work sitting outside version control.
Anatomy of a Claude Code Skill — and Why Progressive Disclosure Is the Whole Trick
A skill looks like a folder with a Markdown file in it. What makes it work is not the content — it is when each part of that content loads.
Real Loss or Stale Read? The Night the Records Vanished, and the Dashboard That Lied Both Ways
The system said the records were gone. They really were gone. But the same system routinely reports counts that are wrong by a factor of eight — so how do you know which kind of "gone" you are looking at, before you act on it?