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Refine language for clarity and conciseness in guidelines and workflow.

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Update BTCA skill instructions to prioritize concision over formatted lists

Rewrites SKILL.md to improve agent instruction clarity. The output style guideline shifts from using bulleted/numbered lists to being extremely concise, favoring brevity over grammar. Code example guidance is expanded to include error handling alongside imports.

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This PR refines wording in skills/btca-local/SKILL.md for clarity and conciseness. Most edits are improvements, but one guideline change removes the instruction to use structured lists and replaces it with advice to "sacrifice grammar" — directly contradicting the PR's stated goal — along with two typos (extremly, grammer). No plan .md files were detected in this PR.

Confidence Score: 4/5

Hold for the guideline replacement on line 26 — it drops structured-output behavior and introduces typos into the agent instructions.

One P1 finding (functional regression in agent guideline) warrants a 4 rather than 5; all other findings are P2 typos.

skills/btca-local/SKILL.md — specifically line 26 where the guideline was replaced.

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skills/btca-local/SKILL.md Language refined for clarity throughout, but an original structured-output guideline was dropped and replaced with a typo-laden instruction to "sacrifice grammar," which is a functional regression for agent behavior.
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Path: skills/btca-local/SKILL.md
Line: 26

Comment:
**Guideline replaced + typos in new text**

This replaces the original instruction to "use lots of bulleted/numbered lists to keep things readable and clear" with advice to "Sacrifice grammer for the sake of concision" — which removes structured-output behavior entirely and introduces two typos (`extremly`, `grammer`). Agent instructions like this directly shape output quality, so dropping the list/readability guideline is a functional regression, and the misspellings undermine the PR's stated goal of improving grammar clarity.

```suggestion
        Be extremely concise in all interactions. Use bulleted or numbered lists to keep answers readable and clear.
```

How can I resolve this? If you propose a fix, please make it concise.

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This is a comment left during a code review.
Path: skills/btca-local/SKILL.md
Line: 8

Comment:
**"It's" should be "Its"**

`It's` is a contraction for "it is"; the possessive form `Its` is needed here.

```suggestion
BTCA Local, aka "The Better Context App Local" is a simple app defined as a skill file. Its purpose is to improve the agent's capabilities for answering questions based on git repositories, cloned on this machine. 
```

How can I resolve this? If you propose a fix, please make it concise.

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</guideline>
<guideline>
when answering use lots of bulleted/numbered lists to keep things readable and clear
Be extremly concise in all interactions. Sacrifice grammer for the sake of concision.
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P1 Guideline replaced + typos in new text

This replaces the original instruction to "use lots of bulleted/numbered lists to keep things readable and clear" with advice to "Sacrifice grammer for the sake of concision" — which removes structured-output behavior entirely and introduces two typos (extremly, grammer). Agent instructions like this directly shape output quality, so dropping the list/readability guideline is a functional regression, and the misspellings undermine the PR's stated goal of improving grammar clarity.

Suggested change
Be extremly concise in all interactions. Sacrifice grammer for the sake of concision.
Be extremely concise in all interactions. Use bulleted or numbered lists to keep answers readable and clear.
Prompt To Fix With AI
This is a comment left during a code review.
Path: skills/btca-local/SKILL.md
Line: 26

Comment:
**Guideline replaced + typos in new text**

This replaces the original instruction to "use lots of bulleted/numbered lists to keep things readable and clear" with advice to "Sacrifice grammer for the sake of concision" — which removes structured-output behavior entirely and introduces two typos (`extremly`, `grammer`). Agent instructions like this directly shape output quality, so dropping the list/readability guideline is a functional regression, and the misspellings undermine the PR's stated goal of improving grammar clarity.

```suggestion
        Be extremely concise in all interactions. Use bulleted or numbered lists to keep answers readable and clear.
```

How can I resolve this? If you propose a fix, please make it concise.

# BTCA Local

BTCA Local, aka "The Better Context App Local" is a simple app defined as a skill file. The purpose of this app is to search git repos cloned onto this machine.
BTCA Local, aka "The Better Context App Local" is a simple app defined as a skill file. It's purpose is to improve the agent's capabilities for answering questions based on git repositories, cloned on this machine.
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P2 "It's" should be "Its"

It's is a contraction for "it is"; the possessive form Its is needed here.

Suggested change
BTCA Local, aka "The Better Context App Local" is a simple app defined as a skill file. It's purpose is to improve the agent's capabilities for answering questions based on git repositories, cloned on this machine.
BTCA Local, aka "The Better Context App Local" is a simple app defined as a skill file. Its purpose is to improve the agent's capabilities for answering questions based on git repositories, cloned on this machine.
Prompt To Fix With AI
This is a comment left during a code review.
Path: skills/btca-local/SKILL.md
Line: 8

Comment:
**"It's" should be "Its"**

`It's` is a contraction for "it is"; the possessive form `Its` is needed here.

```suggestion
BTCA Local, aka "The Better Context App Local" is a simple app defined as a skill file. Its purpose is to improve the agent's capabilities for answering questions based on git repositories, cloned on this machine. 
```

How can I resolve this? If you propose a fix, please make it concise.

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