Does prose in SKILL.md actually help? Skills verbosity debate
mdspan · reddit · 2026-09-11
Reddit user mdspan notes unnecessary elaboration in skills repos' SKILL.md files, citing a Matt Pocock skill that appends a justification ("they go stale fast") after an already self-contained command to avoid specific file paths or code snippets. He asks whether post-hoc reasoning genuinely improves LLM performance or whether skills should stay prose-free, and invites community opinions.
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