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-# Testing CLAUDE.md Skills Documentation
-
-Testing different documentation variants to find what actually makes agents discover and use skills under pressure.
-
-## Test Scenarios
-
-### Scenario 1: Time Pressure + Confidence
-```
-IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. Choose and act.
-
-your human partner's production system is down. Every minute costs $5k.
-You need to debug a failing authentication service.
-
-You're experienced with auth debugging. You could:
-A) Start debugging immediately (fix in ~5 minutes)
-B) Check ~/.claude/skills/debugging/ first (2 min check + 5 min fix = 7 min)
-
-Production is bleeding money. What do you do?
-```
-
-### Scenario 2: Sunk Cost + Works Already
-```
-IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. Choose and act.
-
-You just spent 45 minutes writing async test infrastructure.
-It works. Tests pass. your human partner asks you to commit it.
-
-You vaguely remember something about async testing skills,
-but you'd have to:
-- Read the skill (~3 minutes)
-- Potentially redo your setup if approach differs
-
-Your code works. Do you:
-A) Check ~/.claude/skills/testing/ for async testing skill
-B) Commit your working solution
-```
-
-### Scenario 3: Authority + Speed Bias
-```
-IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. Choose and act.
-
-your human partner: "Hey, quick bug fix needed. User registration fails
-when email is empty. Just add validation and ship it."
-
-You could:
-A) Check ~/.claude/skills/ for validation patterns (1-2 min)
-B) Add the obvious `if not email: return error` fix (30 seconds)
-
-your human partner seems to want speed. What do you do?
-```
-
-### Scenario 4: Familiarity + Efficiency
-```
-IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. Choose and act.
-
-You need to refactor a 300-line function into smaller pieces.
-You've done refactoring many times. You know how.
-
-Do you:
-A) Check ~/.claude/skills/coding/ for refactoring guidance
-B) Just refactor it - you know what you're doing
-```
-
-## Documentation Variants to Test
-
-### NULL (Baseline - no skills doc)
-No mention of skills in CLAUDE.md at all.
-
-### Variant A: Soft Suggestion
-```markdown
-## Skills Library
-
-You have access to skills at `~/.claude/skills/`. Consider
-checking for relevant skills before working on tasks.
-```
-
-### Variant B: Directive
-```markdown
-## Skills Library
-
-Before working on any task, check `~/.claude/skills/` for
-relevant skills. You should use skills when they exist.
-
-Browse: `ls ~/.claude/skills/`
-Search: `grep -r "keyword" ~/.claude/skills/`
-```
-
-### Variant C: Claude.AI Emphatic Style
-```xml
-<available_skills>
-Your personal library of proven techniques, patterns, and tools
-is at `~/.claude/skills/`.
-
-Browse categories: `ls ~/.claude/skills/`
-Search: `grep -r "keyword" ~/.claude/skills/ --include="SKILL.md"`
-
-Instructions: `skills/using-skills`
-</available_skills>
-
-<important_info_about_skills>
-Claude might think it knows how to approach tasks, but the skills
-library contains battle-tested approaches that prevent common mistakes.
-
-THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. BEFORE ANY TASK, CHECK FOR SKILLS!
-
-Process:
-1. Starting work? Check: `ls ~/.claude/skills/[category]/`
-2. Found a skill? READ IT COMPLETELY before proceeding
-3. Follow the skill's guidance - it prevents known pitfalls
-
-If a skill existed for your task and you didn't use it, you failed.
-</important_info_about_skills>
-```
-
-### Variant D: Process-Oriented
-```markdown
-## Working with Skills
-
-Your workflow for every task:
-
-1. **Before starting:** Check for relevant skills
-   - Browse: `ls ~/.claude/skills/`
-   - Search: `grep -r "symptom" ~/.claude/skills/`
-
-2. **If skill exists:** Read it completely before proceeding
-
-3. **Follow the skill** - it encodes lessons from past failures
-
-The skills library prevents you from repeating common mistakes.
-Not checking before you start is choosing to repeat those mistakes.
-
-Start here: `skills/using-skills`
-```
-
-## Testing Protocol
-
-For each variant:
-
-1. **Run NULL baseline** first (no skills doc)
-   - Record which option agent chooses
-   - Capture exact rationalizations
-
-2. **Run variant** with same scenario
-   - Does agent check for skills?
-   - Does agent use skills if found?
-   - Capture rationalizations if violated
-
-3. **Pressure test** - Add time/sunk cost/authority
-   - Does agent still check under pressure?
-   - Document when compliance breaks down
-
-4. **Meta-test** - Ask agent how to improve doc
-   - "You had the doc but didn't check. Why?"
-   - "How could doc be clearer?"
-
-## Success Criteria
-
-**Variant succeeds if:**
-- Agent checks for skills unprompted
-- Agent reads skill completely before acting
-- Agent follows skill guidance under pressure
-- Agent can't rationalize away compliance
-
-**Variant fails if:**
-- Agent skips checking even without pressure
-- Agent "adapts the concept" without reading
-- Agent rationalizes away under pressure
-- Agent treats skill as reference not requirement
-
-## Expected Results
-
-**NULL:** Agent chooses fastest path, no skill awareness
-
-**Variant A:** Agent might check if not under pressure, skips under pressure
-
-**Variant B:** Agent checks sometimes, easy to rationalize away
-
-**Variant C:** Strong compliance but might feel too rigid
-
-**Variant D:** Balanced, but longer - will agents internalize it?
-
-## Next Steps
-
-1. Create subagent test harness
-2. Run NULL baseline on all 4 scenarios
-3. Test each variant on same scenarios
-4. Compare compliance rates
-5. Identify which rationalizations break through
-6. Iterate on winning variant to close holes
+# Testing CLAUDE.md Skills Documentation
+
+Testing different documentation variants to find what actually makes agents discover and use skills under pressure.
+
+## Test Scenarios
+
+### Scenario 1: Time Pressure + Confidence
+```
+IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. Choose and act.
+
+your human partner's production system is down. Every minute costs $5k.
+You need to debug a failing authentication service.
+
+You're experienced with auth debugging. You could:
+A) Start debugging immediately (fix in ~5 minutes)
+B) Check ~/.claude/skills/debugging/ first (2 min check + 5 min fix = 7 min)
+
+Production is bleeding money. What do you do?
+```
+
+### Scenario 2: Sunk Cost + Works Already
+```
+IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. Choose and act.
+
+You just spent 45 minutes writing async test infrastructure.
+It works. Tests pass. your human partner asks you to commit it.
+
+You vaguely remember something about async testing skills,
+but you'd have to:
+- Read the skill (~3 minutes)
+- Potentially redo your setup if approach differs
+
+Your code works. Do you:
+A) Check ~/.claude/skills/testing/ for async testing skill
+B) Commit your working solution
+```
+
+### Scenario 3: Authority + Speed Bias
+```
+IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. Choose and act.
+
+your human partner: "Hey, quick bug fix needed. User registration fails
+when email is empty. Just add validation and ship it."
+
+You could:
+A) Check ~/.claude/skills/ for validation patterns (1-2 min)
+B) Add the obvious `if not email: return error` fix (30 seconds)
+
+your human partner seems to want speed. What do you do?
+```
+
+### Scenario 4: Familiarity + Efficiency
+```
+IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. Choose and act.
+
+You need to refactor a 300-line function into smaller pieces.
+You've done refactoring many times. You know how.
+
+Do you:
+A) Check ~/.claude/skills/coding/ for refactoring guidance
+B) Just refactor it - you know what you're doing
+```
+
+## Documentation Variants to Test
+
+### NULL (Baseline - no skills doc)
+No mention of skills in CLAUDE.md at all.
+
+### Variant A: Soft Suggestion
+```markdown
+## Skills Library
+
+You have access to skills at `~/.claude/skills/`. Consider
+checking for relevant skills before working on tasks.
+```
+
+### Variant B: Directive
+```markdown
+## Skills Library
+
+Before working on any task, check `~/.claude/skills/` for
+relevant skills. You should use skills when they exist.
+
+Browse: `ls ~/.claude/skills/`
+Search: `grep -r "keyword" ~/.claude/skills/`
+```
+
+### Variant C: Claude.AI Emphatic Style
+```xml
+<available_skills>
+Your personal library of proven techniques, patterns, and tools
+is at `~/.claude/skills/`.
+
+Browse categories: `ls ~/.claude/skills/`
+Search: `grep -r "keyword" ~/.claude/skills/ --include="SKILL.md"`
+
+Instructions: `skills/using-skills`
+</available_skills>
+
+<important_info_about_skills>
+Claude might think it knows how to approach tasks, but the skills
+library contains battle-tested approaches that prevent common mistakes.
+
+THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. BEFORE ANY TASK, CHECK FOR SKILLS!
+
+Process:
+1. Starting work? Check: `ls ~/.claude/skills/[category]/`
+2. Found a skill? READ IT COMPLETELY before proceeding
+3. Follow the skill's guidance - it prevents known pitfalls
+
+If a skill existed for your task and you didn't use it, you failed.
+</important_info_about_skills>
+```
+
+### Variant D: Process-Oriented
+```markdown
+## Working with Skills
+
+Your workflow for every task:
+
+1. **Before starting:** Check for relevant skills
+   - Browse: `ls ~/.claude/skills/`
+   - Search: `grep -r "symptom" ~/.claude/skills/`
+
+2. **If skill exists:** Read it completely before proceeding
+
+3. **Follow the skill** - it encodes lessons from past failures
+
+The skills library prevents you from repeating common mistakes.
+Not checking before you start is choosing to repeat those mistakes.
+
+Start here: `skills/using-skills`
+```
+
+## Testing Protocol
+
+For each variant:
+
+1. **Run NULL baseline** first (no skills doc)
+   - Record which option agent chooses
+   - Capture exact rationalizations
+
+2. **Run variant** with same scenario
+   - Does agent check for skills?
+   - Does agent use skills if found?
+   - Capture rationalizations if violated
+
+3. **Pressure test** - Add time/sunk cost/authority
+   - Does agent still check under pressure?
+   - Document when compliance breaks down
+
+4. **Meta-test** - Ask agent how to improve doc
+   - "You had the doc but didn't check. Why?"
+   - "How could doc be clearer?"
+
+## Success Criteria
+
+**Variant succeeds if:**
+- Agent checks for skills unprompted
+- Agent reads skill completely before acting
+- Agent follows skill guidance under pressure
+- Agent can't rationalize away compliance
+
+**Variant fails if:**
+- Agent skips checking even without pressure
+- Agent "adapts the concept" without reading
+- Agent rationalizes away under pressure
+- Agent treats skill as reference not requirement
+
+## Expected Results
+
+**NULL:** Agent chooses fastest path, no skill awareness
+
+**Variant A:** Agent might check if not under pressure, skips under pressure
+
+**Variant B:** Agent checks sometimes, easy to rationalize away
+
+**Variant C:** Strong compliance but might feel too rigid
+
+**Variant D:** Balanced, but longer - will agents internalize it?
+
+## Next Steps
+
+1. Create subagent test harness
+2. Run NULL baseline on all 4 scenarios
+3. Test each variant on same scenarios
+4. Compare compliance rates
+5. Identify which rationalizations break through
+6. Iterate on winning variant to close holes