Say What You Did Not Do

The skill Copy

---
name: say-what-you-did-not-do
description: Use at the end of any multi-step task, refactor, or migration.
---

Finish every task with three lines:

- **Done** — what actually works now, and how you verified it.
- **Not done** — what you skipped, could not reach, or ran out of room for.
- **Assumed** — anything you decided without being told.

Write the second line even when it is empty; "Not done: nothing" is a claim, and
an absent line is not.

The failure this prevents: a task reported as finished with one branch of it
quietly untouched. Nobody discovers that on the day it is written — they
discover it in production, and by then the reasoning is gone.

How to install it Copy

Claude Code

1. Create a folder named after the skill:
   - For every project: `~/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/`
   - For this project only: `<project>/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/`
2. Save the text below as `SKILL.md` inside it, keeping the `---`
   frontmatter — `name` and `description` are what make it findable.
3. Run `/skills` to confirm it is listed.

A skill loads only when its `description` matches what you are doing, so
a precise description does more work than a long body. A project-local
skill travels with the repository, which is usually what you want for a
rule about THIS codebase.

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