Isn’t that what the agents.md in your project is for?

Skills are evaluated by short description whether to read them into context.

Skills itself may be lengthy so...

I try to keep agents/Claude.md as tiny as possible. With high level "truths" that don't change. Stack used, invariants, file structure, and some scripts.

Skills are more for things you do often. I run mutation tests, type check,linting,etc. I _could_ just prompt and copy/paste the same prompt each time I need to, or I can just run /tests.

I also have skills for specialized tasks I need every once in a while, like a ux skill, a text skill optimized for xyz, etc.

Depends on how much information and details you have. The agents.md always goes into context. Detailed testing or process information might be excessive, when agent is working on UI. Skills are pulled when needed.