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So far not impressed with CC's ability to invoke skills automatically.

I made a skill with the unambiguous description: "Use when creating or editing bash scripts"

Yet, Claude does not invoke the skill when asked to write a bash script.

https://gist.github.com/raine/528f97375e125cf97a8f8b415bfd80...

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Hah, yeah that's a total miss there.

Maybe it messed that up because writing bash scripts is so core to how Claude Code works? Much of the existing system prompt (and I bet a lot of the fine-tuning data) is about how to use the Bash tool.

For good measure, I tried:

    description: CRITICAL: Use when writing bash scripts

Surprisingly no effect either. I would've thought adding "CRITICAL" would somehow promote that instruction in the sea of context.

Try writing it like this: "Use it when creating a bash script or editing a bash script"

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