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Summary

  • Update all 16 standalone skill descriptions to structured format: [ACTION_TRIGGER] [DOMAIN_SCOPE]. Triggers on: [phrases]. Not for: [exclusion].
  • Add [Council] prefix and "Used during council/academy deliberation only" suffix to all 46 council department skill descriptions
  • Descriptions are the ONLY thing Claude sees in the system-reminder skills list — this is the highest-ROI change for matching accuracy

Test plan

  • Verify all 16 standalone skills have "Not for:" clause: grep -c "Not for:" skills/*/SKILL.md
  • Verify all 46 council skills have [Council] prefix: grep -c "\[Council\]" skills/council/*/*/SKILL.md
  • Verify descriptions are 15-50 words and include action verb + domain boundary
  • Spot-check that no content beyond the description field was modified

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…cil] prefix

Update all 16 standalone skill descriptions to follow the format:
[ACTION_TRIGGER] [DOMAIN_SCOPE]. Triggers on: [phrases]. Not for: [exclusion].

Add [Council] prefix to all 46 council department skill descriptions with
"Used during council/academy deliberation only." suffix for clear scoping.

This improves skill matching accuracy by giving Claude better signals for
intent classification and domain boundary detection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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P2 Badge Point web-design fallback to an existing skill

This description now tells users to route visual design tasks to frontend-design, but there is no skill with that identifier in this repository (the only frontend-design occurrence is this line). In practice, requests that hit this exclusion path cannot be handed to the intended skill, which undermines the matching/routing improvement this commit is trying to achieve.

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**Bad tests** are coupled to implementation. They mock internal collaborators, test private methods, or verify through external means (like querying a database directly instead of using the interface). The warning sign: your test breaks when you refactor, but behavior hasn't changed. If you rename an internal function and tests fail, those tests were testing implementation, not behavior.

See [references/tests.md](references/tests.md) for examples and [references/mocking.md](references/mocking.md) for mocking guidelines.

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P2 Badge Add referenced TDD docs or remove broken links

The newly added TDD skill links to references/tests.md and references/mocking.md (and later to other references/* docs), but this commit does not add a skills/tdd/references/ tree. Following the documented skill workflow, these links are expected to be loadable; leaving them unresolved makes core guidance unavailable and the skill effectively incomplete.

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