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Skills, not docs
Community description: Documentation tells an agent how a library works. A skill tells it what it will get wrong from habit. Keeping the two apart is what makes either one useful.
Dev.to | Sep 20, 2026 | Jonas Gauffin
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Claude Code loads a skill when its description matches what the agent is doing. A skill loads before the agent knows it has a problem. When a skill says "see docs/forms/form-page. md", the agent opens the file.
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