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Eight weeks after joining November Five with almost no GitHub experience, Margot has six Claude skills in the company library, and colleagues use them on client work. She explains how her first pull requests went, why two skills with overlapping triggers end up competing, and how a survey skill passed from one colleague to another got a client survey live in under 30 minutes. She also covers what she tracks, a design job that shrank from weeks to days, and four tips for building skills other people will actually use.
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