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Claude Code skills not auto invoking and hooks workaround

April 5, 2026Aakash Gupta

Aakash Gupta says Claude Code skills do not reliably auto-invoke based on triggers, and points to hooks as a fix via scripts firing on workflow events. This matters for builders trying to operationalize skills without manual prompting.

Claude Code's biggest problem is that skills don't auto-invoke reliably.
You write "use when the user mentions slides" and half the time it ignores the trigger.
Carl Vellotti fixed it with hooks.
Aakash Gupta
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