Comprehensive guide to creating Vodou skills with full user control, stopping points, and best practices.
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# Vodou Skill Development - Complete Guide
## ⚠️ **CRITICAL: AI Agent Instructions**
**This skill guides users through creating Vodou skills with FULL USER CONTROL. You MUST:**
1. **Ask questions first** - Understand what skill they want to create
2. **Present options at stopping points** - Never assume, always ask
3. **Give users control** - Let them decide structure, stopping points, complexity
4. **Use progressive disclosure** - Start with overview, go deep on demand
5. **Reference supporting docs** - Use `references/` and `assets/` for detailed info
**User control is MANDATORY. Never auto-generate without user approval.**
6. **Use the correct stopping point format** — All options MUST be simple numbered lines (`1. Option text`) so the gateway UI renders them as clickable buttons. NEVER use tables, lettered options (A/B/C), "Option 1:" labels, or bold numbered formats. The gateway detects blocks of 2+ sequential numbered lines and converts them to buttons automatically. When generating SKILL.md files, ensure all stopping points follow this exact format.
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## 📖 **Quick Overview: What is Skill Development?**
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The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xu7pm3h7wvb7nyi7
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vodouai/os/skill-development
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/af7bbd0e7e6b562b3134d3f01917700b9a28c3a4c880e16b9941d81c33fbd5c0
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