Skills and the discovery ceiling: why your AI coding agent ignores most of what you install

Post 1 of 2. This post walks through the discovery ceiling in Anthropic's Agent Skills standard, the obvious first attempt at fixing it (a hook that didn't work), and the architecture that did. A follow-up post will cover the hook story in detail — why Claude Code's UserPromptSubmit hook can't reliably inject knowledge, what's filed about it, and what would actually fix it. A small puzzle to start Last month I installed Google's new Workspace CLI, gws . It's a command-line tool that wraps every