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by vessenes 168 days ago
Regardless of title, it’s a good little reminder that I hadn’t thought of - skills can use skills. This makes sense - a skill is just a pre-loaded context Claude instance, so why not? But I also tend to think of one skill at a time. Thanks for the write up.
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You can make a router skill that describes how to use the other skills together. I'm experimenting with this now but my core problem is still How to Make Claude Code Skills Activate Reliably.

During testing today I asked a task I knew should have activated a skill and claude just did it without the skill instead.

This might help: https://scottspence.com/posts/how-to-make-claude-code-skills...

Skills are just prompts the agent can choose to load.

That's it

Skills are prompts the agent can choose to load.

(I've rephrased the sentence by removing "just" -- the novel thought here is that the agent's use of a skill can automatically trigger another skill, which is somewhat emergent.)

If you come across any other skills that could be fun to combine, lmk!