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dev-standards-skill-description-style

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: agents-skills-meta  ·  Last updated:
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SKILL.md description style — conceptual conciseness then caveman/wenyan compression. Retriever is LLM semantic match, not keyword index, so terse-but-complete beats verbose prose. Use when: writing/editing SKILL.md description, reviewing PR adding/modifying SKILL.md, briefing subagent that writes skills, auditing skill retrieval quality. Skip: editing SKILL.md body (different rules), non-skill markdown.

From the source SKILL.md

The description field in SKILL.md frontmatter is retrieval metadata consumed by Claude Code's skill matcher. The matcher is LLM-driven semantic, not regex/keyword indexing. Implication: aggressive compression is fine as long as concept tokens and Use-when triggers stay semantically intact.

What this skill does

dev-standards-skill-description-style is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the agents-skills-meta sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/skill-description-style/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when: writing/editing SKILL.md description, reviewing PR adding/modifying SKILL.

Who uses this skill

The dev-standards-skill-description-style Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/skill-description-style
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/skill-description-style/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/skill-description-style/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/skill-description-style/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/skill-description-style/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\skill-description-style\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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ClaudSkills. (2026). dev-standards-skill-description-style [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/skill-description-style/
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@misc{skill-description-style-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {dev-standards-skill-description-style [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/skill-description-style/}
}

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