docs(skill): clarify that no provider API key is read for semantic extraction#864
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…traction Several host agents (Claude Code in particular) misread the current phrasing and prompt the user for `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` when no Gemini key is set, instead of falling through to subagent dispatch. The Gemini tip stays as-is; this just adds an explicit one-line callout that no other provider keys are consulted, with `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` called out by name since that is the specific misread we hit in the wild. No behavior change — pure documentation.
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Summary
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY,OPENAI_API_KEY, or any non-Gemini provider key from the environment.ANTHROPIC_API_KEYspecifically because that is the misread we hit in the wild — Claude Code sessions, on seeing the existing "Tip: setGEMINI_API_KEY..." line, generalize and prompt the user forANTHROPIC_API_KEY, then halt the skill when none is present.Why
Hit by a teammate today on a clean install. Their Claude Code session saw "semantic extraction (LLM, costs tokens)" plus the Gemini tip, decided it needed some key, checked the env for the most obvious one (
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY), and prompted the user. The skill actually wants to fall through to subagent dispatch in that case — but the wording doesn't make the negative-space explicit, so the host agent invented a requirement.Test plan
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