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/summarize-folder

Create a summary of all files in a folder

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cowork-os
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Install
$ npx -y skills add CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS --skill summarize-folder --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/summarize-folder

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Create a summary of all files in a folder

SKILL.md

summarize-folder.SKILL.md
name: summarize-folder
description: "Create a summary of all files in a folder"

Summarize Folder

Purpose

Create a summary of all files in a folder

Routing

  • Use when: Use when the user asks to create a summary of all files in a folder.
  • Do not use when: Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
  • Outputs: Outcome from Summarize Folder: task-specific result plus concrete action notes.
  • Success criteria: Returns concrete actions and decisions matching the requested task, with no fabricated tool-side behavior.

Trigger Examples

Positive

  • Use the summarize-folder skill for this request.
  • Help me with summarize folder.
  • Use when the user asks to create a summary of all files in a folder.
  • Summarize Folder: provide an actionable result.

Negative

  • Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
  • Do not use summarize-folder for unrelated requests.
  • This request is outside summarize folder scope.
  • This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description | |---|---|---|---| | path | string | Yes | Folder path to summarize |

Runtime Prompt

  • Current runtime prompt length: 372 characters.
  • Runtime prompt is defined directly in `../summarize-folder.json`.
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