Step-by-step SKILL.md packages an AI follows for a single kind of task.
A skill is a focused playbook - instructions, examples and constraints - that makes any model reliable at one job, from SQL reporting to changelog writing. The router fills a plan's skill slot with the best match for the request.
Apply when debugging. Trace each symptom to its root cause and fix it there; reproduce first, ask why until you reach it, resist nil-check guards that silence crashes.