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Run writing-great-skills over every SKILL.md to cut verbosity #55

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@TBarregren

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.

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