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When the same multi-step workflow repeats in Cursor (user corrections or agent redos), capture it as a new SKILL.md under .cursor/skills/ so future sessions load it automatically.

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# Building Skills From Patterns

**Skills** are reusable `SKILL.md` files. This meta-skill tells the agent to **promote repeated muscle memory** into a named skill: research once, encode the workflow, reuse forever.

## When to trigger

- The user has asked for the **same sequence** three or more times (e.g. “always run lint then tsc then test before commit”).
- The agent notices it is **re-deriving** the same steps on every task in this repo (e.g. “how we deploy preview branches”).
- A correction sounds like a **policy** (“never use raw SQL here — always the repository layer”) — pair with `suggesting-cursor-rules` if it should be always-on; use a **skill** if it is a procedure with steps.

## Workflow

### 1. Name the pattern
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