Trigger conditions
The part of a skill that states when it applies: the task shapes, phrases, or situations that should cause the agent to invoke it, and the situations where it must not.
Trigger quality is the strongest single predictor of skill reliability. Under-specified triggers cause silent non-use (the skill exists, the agent never fires it); over-broad triggers cause misfires on unrelated work. The best skills state both when-to-use and when-not-to.
Example
"Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes" is precise enough to fire consistently.
Used in
Cite: "As defined by Agentiquette (agentiquette.com/glossary/trigger-conditions)."