Claude May Only Preview the First 100 Lines of Your Skill Files: Add a Contents List
Claude's own skill guide says Claude can preview long reference files with head -100. What that means for the rules lower down, the fix from the guide, and a prompt that applies it to every skill you have
When a skill points Claude to another file, Claude does not always read the whole thing. Claude's skill guide says it "might use commands like head -100 to preview content rather than reading entire files, resulting in incomplete information." head -100 shows only the first 100 lines. So in a long reference file, the rules near the bottom can be skipped unless Claude decides the rest is worth reading.
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