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Writes the description field that makes a skill fire reliably - WHAT it does, WHEN to invoke it with quoted user phrasing, and what it is NOT for. Use when drafting or improving only the description or trigger of a SKILL.md or catalog entry - "this skill never fires", "fix this description", "write the frontmatter description". Do NOT use to author a whole skill (use skill-creator) or to grade/audit one (use skill-auditor).

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# Skill Description Writer

Crafts the description field that determines whether a skill is ever selected. A weak description means the skill never fires; an overloaded one fires on the wrong tasks. This is the highest-leverage line in any skill: the body only matters if the description gets it loaded.

## Inputs to collect

1. What the skill produces (its deliverable, one sentence).
2. Three or more phrases a real user would type when they need it - in the user's words, not the author's.
3. The nearest neighbor skills a request could confuse it with.

If the author cannot supply real user phrasing, derive candidates from the body's deliverable and triggers, and mark them for validation with skill-tester.

## The three-part formula
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