What a Skill Looks Like
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What a Skill Looks Like
Here’s the complete skeleton:
---
name: think-first
description: Enforce mental model application before major decisions. Use when facing architecture choices, business decisions, feature prioritisation, trade-off analysis, or any task where the user asks "should I...?" / "which is better?".
use_when: User faces a decision with trade-offs, compares options, or asks "should I".
user-invocable: true
---Then a markdown body with the actual instructions.
That’s a real skill — think-first — from the system that this course documents. The YAML header tells Claude Code when to load it and how to surface it. The body tells Claude what to do when it runs.