If you’ve tried to make an assistant “Oracle‑aware,” you’ve likely hit the same wall: you paste a stack of links, the model blends vendor‑neutral habits with stale Oracle guidance, and the answers get vague when you need precision. The fix isn’t more context—it’s better routing. One Oracle skill at a time, in the right order, so every next move follows Oracle’s own sequence. In Article 1 we outlined an operating model for AI on Oracle Database: route → act → trust. This piece goes deep on the first verb. It shows how to use db/SKILL.md in the public Oracle Database Skills repository as your front door; how to route by persona or by task; and how to enforce progressive discovery so your assistant loads exactly one file at a time. This is a no‑execution article; we stay in the routing lane and leave tools to Article 3 (SQLcl MCP). Prerequisite: you only need to browse https://github.com/oracle/skills in a web browser.…