Promptles
Clarity

Invoke the Right Skill

Match your task to an existing skill or slash command and call it by name.

Skills and slash commands are pre-written instructions the assistant already knows how to run: /commit, /review-pr, a custom /release. When your request matches one of them, invoke it by name instead of describing it from scratch. You get the team's validated workflow instead of a one-off guess.

Where you'll practice this

2 Promptles scenarios teach this principle directly. Each one drops you into a real engineering ticket and asks you to write the prompt you'd send to Claude Code.

  • Invoke the Right Skill

    You've just finished a small feature: a new `Button` component and its test. Your team has a `/commit` slash command that reads recent commit messages, drafts one in the same style, and stages the right files. Instead of describing commit conventions by hand every time, you want…

  • Call It By Name

    Your team has a `/review-pr` skill installed across the engineering org — it walks the agent through reading the diff, checking for missing tests, flagging risky migrations, and posting a summary comment on the GitHub PR. You're about to ask Claude to look at PR #4821 (a…

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