How to Write and Test SKILL.md
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On October 6, 2026, a DEV Community article about Claude Code discussed how to write and test SKILL.md. The author points out that SKILL.md only loads when its description matches the user’s query, while the body determines what happens after loading. So to trust a Skill, you first need to run it with real inputs and read back the results. He recommends writing rules in a verifiable form and testing them separately on a stronger and a weaker model, with tests that can actually fail. So far this is the only report on the topic, with no follow-up developments or contradictions with other reports.
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- DEV Community · Claude Code写一个智能体能用的 SKILL.md，并先测试它
作者提出 SKILL.md 只有在 description 与用户提问匹配时才会被加载，正文决定加载后发生什么，因此值得信任的前提是先用真实输入跑一遍并读回结果。他建议把规则写成可校验的形式，并在一个更强和一个更弱的模型上分别测试，且测试要能失败。
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