Look up Emacs documentation
SkillDocs & knowledgeThis skill should be used when the user invokes "/describe" to look up Emacs documentation via emacsclient.
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Then ask your AI: use the Look up Emacs documentation skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by xenodium/emacs-skills in skills/describe/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Look up Emacs documentation using emacsclient --eval and summarize the findings. The query is searched across multiple mechanisms (function, variable, face, key binding, and apropos) in one call, returning all findings as a single string.
First, locate agent-skill-describe.el which lives alongside this skill file at skills/describe/agent-skill-describe.el in the emacs-skills plugin directory.
emacsclient --eval '
(progn
(load "/path/to/skills/describe/agent-skill-describe.el" nil t)
(agent-skill-describe :query "dired-mark"))'
Rules
- Summarize the returned documentation for the user in the conversation.
- Locate
agent-skill-describe.elrelative to this skill file's directory. - Run the
emacsclient --evalcommand via the Bash tool.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 135
- Forks
- 17
- Last commit
- Jul 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
describe- Source
- github.com/xenodium/emacs-skills