# my source work skill is not triggering often enough. can you help me fix it. you will nneed to th...
## Retrieval Notes
- Session id: `fc7b39d9-692c-43d0-a49e-9da50aa1902c`
- Last activity: `2026-02-21T15:48:16.893Z`
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## Conversation
### User
my source work skill is not triggering often enough. can you help me fix it. you will nneed to think very hard about how skills work, check your knowledge and the arrhcitecture and config of the vault. make sure that you explain your analysis, justification, reasons etc etc. for your answer BEFORE giving me your final answer. Please give me a long, deep, and detailed answer, with lots of options/ideas: as we are in the 'kicking ideas around' stage, I want as much feedback as you can give me so that i have a lot to consider.
### Assistant
Let me gather all the relevant information before I begin contemplating. I need to understand the source-work skill, how skills trigger, and the current system architecture.
### Assistant
Now let me also check the knowledge-base-hook to understand its exclusion logic and the system-design-practices file for context:
### Assistant
Now let me read the proactive-capture-design knowledge file, which might have relevant architectural context:
### Assistant
Good. Now let me check one more thing — how the skill description appears in the system-reminder list at the top of each conversation (the skills list that gets shown to Claude):