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Claude Code skills

Claude Code's format for reusable instructions: a SKILL.md file whose frontmatter description, plus an optional when_to_use field, forms the single listing line the agent reads when deciding whether to load it.

Known aliases

when_to_use

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Word overlap in one listing line decided every skill invocation across 38 Claude Code runs

A test published on dev.to ran one commit-message skill through Claude Code 38 times, changing only how it was described, and found that "Helps with git stuff." never fired while a file with no frontmatter always did.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+8
Incentives30
Confidence62