"Start small:

Pick one repeatable task that an agent currently handles without explicit guidance. Document it as a skill with entry criteria, steps, and exit criteria.

Validate it. Install skill-validator and run skill-validator check against your skill. Fix what it finds.

Test it with the agent. Invoke the skill explicitly and observe whether the agent follows it as written. Where it deviates, the skill is probably ambiguous.

Add validation to CI. Once you have a few skills, the CI integration keeps them from degrading as the project evolves.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this is the same pattern I described for project descriptions: start with one file, observe how agents respond, iterate. The difference is that skills demand more precision because they're more prescriptive. That higher quality bar makes deterministic validation tooling valuable; you get feedback on skill quality before the agent runs, not after."

https://instructionmanuel.com/writing-skills-agents-can-execute

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