Look up Emacs documentation

SkillDocs & knowledge

This skill should be used when the user invokes "/describe" to look up Emacs documentation via emacsclient.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

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.el relative to this skill file's directory.
  • Run the emacsclient --eval command via the Bash tool.

Signals

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Source
github.com/xenodium/emacs-skills