demeter-skills

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Central skill registry for demeter project. Use to discover available skills, understand skill conventions, and find the right skill for a task.

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[Tool Routing and Orchestration]

When & Why to Use This Skill

The Demeter Skills registry is a centralized management system designed to enhance Claude's agentic capabilities by organizing and surfacing project-specific skills. It provides a standardized framework for skill discovery, ensuring that the AI agent can autonomously identify, understand, and activate the most relevant tools based on task context and predefined conventions.

Use Cases

  • Skill Discovery & Activation: Enabling Claude to automatically scan the registry and trigger the correct skill, such as 'Architecture' or 'Debugging', based on the user's specific request.
  • Standardizing AI Workflows: Providing developers with a consistent YAML-based template to define new agent capabilities, ensuring all skills follow uniform naming and description guidelines for better reliability.
  • Context-Aware Task Routing: Utilizing keyword-driven descriptions within the registry to help the agent navigate complex project structures and select the optimal functional module for a given problem.
namedemeter-skills
descriptionCentral skill registry for demeter project. Use to discover available skills, understand skill conventions, and find the right skill for a task.

Demeter Skills

This directory contains skills that Claude auto-activates based on task context.

Available Skills

Skill File Purpose
Architecture architecture.md Project structure and design patterns

Skill Conventions

File Format

Each skill file uses YAML frontmatter:

---
name: skill-name
description: What this skill does. When to use it.
allowed-tools: Tool1, Tool2  # Optional
---

# Skill Content

Naming

  • Use lowercase with hyphens: my-skill-name
  • Max 64 characters
  • Be specific: rust-error-handling not errors

Description Guidelines

The description field drives auto-activation. Include:

  1. What the skill does
  2. When Claude should use it
  3. Trigger keywords users would mention
# Good
description: Debug Rust compile errors and borrow checker issues. Use when encountering lifetime errors, ownership problems, or type mismatches.

# Bad
description: Helps with Rust

Adding New Skills

  1. Create skill-name.md in this directory
  2. Add YAML frontmatter with name and description
  3. Write skill content in markdown
  4. Update the table in this file

Skill Discovery

Claude automatically discovers skills based on:

  • Task relevance
  • Description keywords
  • Request context

No explicit invocation needed—write good descriptions and Claude will find them.