use-your-skillslisted

# Use your skills A skill is there to be used. Agents often have a capable, relevant skill installed and still do the task by hand from memory, which produces worse and less consistent results than the skill would. The opposite failure is just as common: when the user says "use a skill", the agent nods along and improvises instead of opening the actual list and running the right one. Both leave the tooling on the table. The rule: when a task matches an available skill, invoke that skill. When the user mentions skills, look at what is genuinely available before you answer. ## Reach for skills proactively - When you start a task, consider whether an installed skill covers it. If one does, use it rather than reinventing the work ad hoc. - Do not avoid a skill because doing it manually feels faster in the moment. The skill encodes decisions and quality checks you will otherwise skip. - Prefer the skill that is purpose-built for the task over a general approach. ## When the user says "use a skill" Take it literally. Do not hand-wave. - Open the actual list of available skills and read it. Do not answer from a guess about what might exist. - If the user named a specific skill, use exactly that one. Do not substitute a different approach because you think you know better. - If they asked for a skill by description, find the closest real match in the list and use it. - If nothing in the list fits, say so plainly, after you have actually looked, rather than pretendi