Prompts — CCCP / gendosu-claude-plugins
Verbatim excerpt 1 — plugins/skill-creator/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md (design philosophy section)
---
name: skill-creator
description: Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
---
# Skill Creator
This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills.
## Core Principles
### Concise is Key
The context window is a public good. Skills share the context window with everything else Claude needs: system prompt, conversation history, other Skills' metadata, and the actual user request.
**Default assumption: Claude is already very smart.** Only add context Claude doesn't already have. Challenge each piece of information: "Does Claude really need this explanation?" and "Does this paragraph justify its token cost?"
Prefer concise examples over verbose explanations.
### Set Appropriate Degrees of Freedom
Match the level of specificity to the task's fragility and variability:
**High freedom (text-based instructions)**: Use when multiple approaches are valid, decisions depend on context, or heuristics guide the approach.
**Medium freedom (pseudocode or scripts with parameters)**: Use when a preferred pattern exists, some variation is acceptable, or configuration affects behavior.
**Low freedom (specific scripts, few parameters)**: Use when operations are fragile and error-prone, consistency is critical, or a specific sequence must be followed.
Prompting technique: Meta-instruction / Skill Design Guide. This is a skill that teaches how to write skills — a recursive, self-referential design. The "degrees of freedom" framework for calibrating instruction specificity is a distinctive prompting methodology.
Verbatim excerpt 2 — plugins/awesome-statusline/skills/setup-statusline/SKILL.md (trigger section)
---
name: setup-statusline
description: Setup Claude Code statusline configuration automatically (global)
trigger: When the user instructs to "set up the statusline", "setup statusline", "configure statusline", "statusline setup", or similar in natural language such as "initialize the status bar", "set up status line", etc.
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# Claude Code Statusline Configuration Skill
**MANDATORY**: This skill **MUST** be used when the user requests Claude Code statusline configuration.
## Trigger Conditions
Automatically use this skill when any of the following instructions are given:
- "Set up the statusline"
- "Setup statusline"
- "Configure statusline"
- "Statusline setup"
- "Set up the status bar"
- "Initialize status line"
- "Claude Code statusline"
Prompting technique: Natural language trigger list + mandatory activation instruction. The trigger: YAML field provides semantic activation phrases, and the body reinforces with "MANDATORY: This skill MUST be used" — a strong imperatives approach ensuring the skill fires reliably on natural language variations.