describe

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Translated

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

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Sourcexenodium/emacs-skills

Added on2026-04-08

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add xenodium/emacs-skills describe

SKILL.md Content

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Look up Emacs documentation

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.

describe

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SKILL.md Content

Look up Emacs documentation

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