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name: remove-ineffective-skills
description: "User wants skills that don't help (or that lower output quality) removed, not kept around"
metadata:
  node_type: memory
  type: feedback
  originSessionId: f869a50f-0ba0-4b91-8720-1c7b1788f68c
  modified: 2026-10-08T04:46:33.637Z
---

Skills that have no effect, or that make Claude's work worse (over-broad triggers, outdated advice, contradictions), should be deleted, not just reported.

**Why:** said 2026-10-08 after the prompt audit; unused skills still cost listing tokens and misroute requests.

**How to apply:** judge with evidence: Skill invocations in `~/.claude/projects/*/*.jsonl`, `learned` eval results (with vs without), audit findings. Keep the user's own skills that beat baseline (`learned:*`) or see real use (`daily-report`). For a skill symlinked from `~/.agents/skills/`, remove only the link in `~/.claude/skills/` (Codex reads `~/.agents/skills`). The auto-mode classifier blocked an `rm` there on 2026-10-08, so hand the user the command. Related: [[no-agenthub-agents-skills]].

Roles the user set (2026-10-08): `sg-all:sg-md-writing` = THE skill for maintaining project knowledge (CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md/rules/skills/subagents; `learned:writing-agent-context` was folded into it); `sg-all:sg-prompt-sharpening` = turn the team's terse natural-language asks into a complete prompt, show it, then act. Source is the company repo `~/MyDrive/Projects/ResearchAndDevelopment/smartgift-claude-skills` (master, evals under `plugins/*/evals/`); v0.2.0 was pushed there on 2026-10-08 at the user's request; ask again before any later push.