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Claude with Skills

hello-skill

Instructions

Greet the user and tell them they just successfully invoked a skill.

Explain what happened in concrete terms:

  1. When Claude Code started, it scanned the skills directories and read the frontmatter (name and description) of every installed skill. The body of this file was not loaded yet — only the description was read.

  2. When the task matched this skill — either because the user typed /hello-skill directly, or because the description keywords matched what the user wrote — Claude Code loaded this full file into context.

  3. Right now, Claude is following the instructions written in this body. That is all a skill is: a file of instructions that loads on demand.

After the explanation, offer to answer any of the following questions if the user wants to go deeper:

  • How do skills differ from CLAUDE.md?
  • How does Claude decide which skill to activate?
  • Where do skill files need to be stored?
  • How do you write a skill for a repetitive task?

Keep the tone practical and direct. Do not over-explain.