docs: clarify that When to Use section is required for skills#11
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The skill template in plugin-structure.md showed the ## When to Use section but didn't explain why it matters. Without explicit guidance, skill authors may include the description frontmatter but skip the body section, degrading skill discovery and activation. Added explanation of the two-layer discovery mechanism (description for filtering, When to Use for confirmation) and marked both as required. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
plugin-structure.mdshowed the## When to Usesection but didn't explain why it matters or that it's requireddescriptionfrontmatter but skip the body section, which degrades skill discovery and activationdescriptionfor filtering,When to Usefor confirmationContext
Ran into this firsthand — created a skill using this plugin's guidance, included a good
descriptionfrontmatter, but omitted the## When to Usebody section because nothing indicated it was required. The skill loaded but didn't activate reliably until the body section was added.Test plan
plugin-structure.mdis clear🤖 Generated with Claude Code