Summary
Every skill in this repo has been written organically and the SKILL.md files have grown wordy. Run Matt Pocock's writing-great-skills over each skill and rewrite it to be as lean as possible. If a skill can be cut down substantially without losing behaviour, that is a win.
Motivation
SKILL.md content is loaded into the agent's context when the skill triggers, so tokens spent on redundant prose are a direct, recurring cost paid on every invocation. Leaner skills mean faster, cheaper, more reliable triggering and easier maintenance.
Scope
Apply writing-great-skills to each of the following (current size for reference):
| Skill |
Words |
Lines |
skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md |
~11350 |
334 |
skills/release/SKILL.md |
~1760 |
237 |
skills/coder/SKILL.md |
~1290 |
76 |
skills/coding-standard/SKILL.md |
~1146 |
92 |
skills/init/SKILL.md |
~1135 |
131 |
skills/doctor/SKILL.md |
~820 |
74 |
skills/push/SKILL.md |
~784 |
75 |
skills/commit/SKILL.md |
~741 |
68 |
orchestrate is the clear outlier and the highest-value target.
Approach
- Run writing-great-skills against one SKILL.md at a time.
- Prefer trimming redundancy, repetition, and over-explanation; move genuinely-needed detail into on-demand
agents.d/ / reference files rather than the always-loaded body where it makes sense.
- One skill per commit/PR so each rewrite is reviewable in isolation.
Acceptance criteria
- Every SKILL.md above has been passed through writing-great-skills and rewritten.
- No behavioural regression: triggering conditions, guardrails, and workflow steps are all preserved.
- Existing tests still pass (
audit.py + pytest); the JS engine's structural tests still hold.
- Measurable reduction in word count where the content allows, especially
orchestrate.
Summary
Every skill in this repo has been written organically and the SKILL.md files have grown wordy. Run Matt Pocock's writing-great-skills over each skill and rewrite it to be as lean as possible. If a skill can be cut down substantially without losing behaviour, that is a win.
Motivation
SKILL.md content is loaded into the agent's context when the skill triggers, so tokens spent on redundant prose are a direct, recurring cost paid on every invocation. Leaner skills mean faster, cheaper, more reliable triggering and easier maintenance.
Scope
Apply writing-great-skills to each of the following (current size for reference):
skills/orchestrate/SKILL.mdskills/release/SKILL.mdskills/coder/SKILL.mdskills/coding-standard/SKILL.mdskills/init/SKILL.mdskills/doctor/SKILL.mdskills/push/SKILL.mdskills/commit/SKILL.mdorchestrateis the clear outlier and the highest-value target.Approach
agents.d// reference files rather than the always-loaded body where it makes sense.Acceptance criteria
audit.py+ pytest); the JS engine's structural tests still hold.orchestrate.