Promptles
Clarity

Write a Trigger-Worthy Description

The description is the trigger. Use the user's words, and say when to skip.

A skill's description IS its trigger. The agent reads it on every turn and decides whether the current task matches. Vague descriptions fire on the wrong tasks; absent descriptions never fire at all. Lead with the concrete verbs and nouns the user would type — 'review a pull request', 'set up a new GitHub issue tracker', 'draft a PRD from this conversation'. Then add a line about what the skill explicitly should NOT do, so it skips weak matches instead of grabbing them.

Where you'll practice this

One Promptles scenario teaches this principle directly.

  • The Trigger Description

    Your team uses Claude Code and wants to standardize how engineers convert a Slack/PR discussion into a product-requirements doc. You're authoring a `to-prd` skill — a markdown file with frontmatter (`name`, `description`) and a body that walks the agent through drafting a PRD…

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