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16 changes: 12 additions & 4 deletions rules/skill-activation.md
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# Skill Activation

**Evaluate before implementing** - Check available skills for relevance before starting work
**Evaluate on every prompt** - Before any response, tool call, or action, check available skills for relevance

**Activation sequence:**

1. **Evaluate** - For each skill in `<available_skills>`, assess: `[skill-name] - YES/NO - [reason]`
2. **Activate** - Call `Skill(skill-name)` for each relevant skill before proceeding
3. **Implement** - Begin work only after activation is complete
3. **Respond** - Begin response only after activation is complete

*Verify:* Did you check available skills before starting implementation?
**Applies to all tasks** - Research, explanation, code changes, debugging, review — no exceptions

**Decision-point re-evaluation** - Re-evaluate skills at each planning or delegation step:
- Before entering plan mode
- Before launching subagents (Task tool)
- Before starting each task in a task list
- When the domain shifts mid-task (e.g., from code to evaluation, from schema to grading)

*Verify:* Every Task tool call and plan mode entry was preceded by skill evaluation
*Fix:* Pause, evaluate skills, activate relevant ones, then continue

**Example:**
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> Skill(documentation)
```

**Activation before implementation** - Evaluating skills without calling `Skill()` provides no benefit
**Activation before action** - Evaluating skills without calling `Skill()` provides no benefit
*Verify:* Check that `Skill()` was called for each YES evaluation
*Fix:* Call `Skill(skill-name)` for skipped activations