docs(skills): bring 69 skill descriptions under the 60-char routing budget - #70531
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… budget Every SKILL.md description over 60 chars was silently truncated to 57 chars + '...' in the system-prompt skill index (extract_skill_description, agent/skill_utils.py), destroying the routing signal for 69 of 179 skills — some descriptions ran to 1,005 chars. Rewrites follow the authoring standard: <=60 chars, one sentence, ends with a period, trigger front-loaded, no marketing words, no skill-name repetition. Excess detail already lives in each skill's body. Includes the touchdesigner-mcp trim from PR #32361 (credit: @JeliTron) and aligns with the router-precision direction of PR #48780 (@John-Lussier). Docs catalogs + per-skill pages regenerated via website/scripts/generate-skill-docs.py. Co-authored-by: JeliTron <287797501+JeliTron@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
All 179 bundled + optional skill descriptions now fit the 60-char system-prompt budget — previously 69 of them were silently truncated to 57 chars +
...in the skill index, destroying their routing signal (worst offender: 1,005 chars).The system prompt shows only the first 57 chars of each description (
extract_skill_description,agent/skill_utils.py), so anything past that was invisible to the router. Rewrites front-load the trigger, follow the authoring standard (≤60 chars, one sentence, ends with period, no marketing words, no name repetition), and rely on each skill's body for the detail that was dropped.Changes
SKILL.mdfrontmatter descriptions rewritten (23 mlops, 18 finance/research/security, 22 creative/devops/misc optional skills; 6 bundled)website/: both catalogs + 69 per-skill docs pages regenerated viagenerate-skill-docs.pydescription:lines touched in skill files; excludedoptional-skills/mlops/pinecone(handled in feat(skills): add pinecone-research optional skill + trim pinecone description (salvage #46519) #70512)Credit
touchdesigner-mcpuses @JeliTron's exact trim from PR trim: tighten 8 skill descriptions for prompt budget #32361 (co-author on the commit)Validation
yaml.safe_loadscripts/run_tests.sh tests/skills/Infographic