One-line fix: tell your agent skill to admit out-of-scope requests and stop
Sad_Order_3014 · reddit · 2026-09-12
A practitioner recounts debugging an incident-triage skill that kept forcing a payments playbook onto unrelated auth outages. The skill had a decent activation trigger but no guidance for out-of-scope requests, so it stretched the playbook and produced confident nonsense. The fix was a single line instructing it to say so and stop. The author asks how others bound skill scope: explicit out-of-scope instructions, narrower triggers, or more skills with smaller surfaces.
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