KB Summarize Skill
When to Use
Activate when the user wants to:
- •Save a useful text snippet as a knowledge base note
- •Summarize documentation or a code passage for future reference
- •Add a citable note to the agent knowledge base
User Preferences
- •Check for
.github/copilot-preferences.ymlor.vscode/copilot-preferences.ymlfor custom KB conventions. - •Apply any custom note format or categorization preferences.
Steps
- •Create
docs/kb/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.mdwith:- •Title, Source (URL if available), and a short Summary.
- •Quotations block with exact quotes (≤ 10 lines each) and locations.
- •Takeaways for this repo.
- •Append a link to this note under the relevant topic in
docs/AGENT_KB.md. - •Print a change summary.
Guardrails
- •Do not call CLIs or the network.
- •Keep notes concise (< 300 lines per file).