Skills System (Deprecated)

Deprecated

This page describes a per-repository skills system that was designed but never implemented. The .claude/skill-rules.json, .claude/skills/ directory, and SKILL.md files referenced in earlier versions of this page never existed in the dotfiles repo.

What Happened

The original plan was to build a custom skill activation system with keyword triggers, intent patterns, and file context matching per repository. This was superseded by Claude Code's built-in skills system, which manages skills globally via ~/.claude/skills/ (Syncthing-synced across machines).

Current Approach

Skills are now defined globally in ~/.claude/skills/ and automatically available across all projects. See ~/.claude/README.md for details.

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