Skill Descriptions Are Tricky

Channel: Theo t3.gg
Published: 2026-08-11

I know it's unintuitive, because it's called the description, but they're triggers more than anything else.

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You really should think of the description of a skill as the trigger keywords rather than as an actual description. Your description should not describe what the skill does because the description is always inserted even if the skill's not being used. Hell, I've seen skills where the description gives you everything that you need and you don't even need to use the skill cuz the description has all the details. So, you should treat the description less like an elaborate explanation of all the things the skill does. The description should have the magic keywords to tell the model when to pull that thing in.