Skills now migrate from hand-authored plugin.json to Microsoft APM
(apm.yml + .apm/) per ADR-0015/issue #89. skill-author's write location
switches accordingly: walk up from the destination to the nearest
ancestor apm.yml declaring a type: field (skipping type:-less
marketplace-only manifests) and scaffold into <package-root>/.apm/skills/
<name>/. Standalone authoring (no apm.yml/.git anywhere, e.g.
~/.agents/skills/) is unchanged — only the old plugin.json-based path is
replaced, not standalone mode.
Refs: #89
Independent /skill-audit recheck flagged the git-log-capture instructions
as discoverable only at close-out (Step 6/Step 5), long after the step
where the hash should actually be snapshotted. Adds the capture checklist
item to Prerequisites (create flow) and Step 1 (improve flow) instead of
leaving it as a retrospective-only note. Also drops a sentence in the
improve flow's Step 4 that duplicated the preceding one on editing
scripts/reference files directly.
Refs #69
Prior sessions had authoring subagents report completion after only
staging changes (git diff --stat showing output, but no git commit),
and one run self-spawned its own audit/recheck subagent instead of
leaving that to forge's outer loop, losing an uncommitted draft when
the stray subagent's worktree was torn down.
Refs #69, #71
## Why
The git plugin only covered a partial slice of common git workflows.
This adds the remaining skill set (branches, commits, history, remotes,
submodules, workflow, worktrees) plus a git-orchestrate agent so the
plugin can handle end-to-end git automation instead of a handful of
commands.
## Implementation Notes
Each new skill was validated against its research docs and org
conventions after initial authoring, which surfaced hallucinated
version pins, factual errors, and completeness gaps that were
corrected in the same pass rather than left for follow-up.
## Impact
Bumps the git plugin to 1.3.0.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Why
The description sentence "Handles both the full create flow (scaffold → fill →
validate) and the improve flow (signals → root cause → edit → audit)." describes
internal mechanics rather than user intent. The surrounding trigger phrases already
cover both create and improve intents, so this sentence adds no triggering value
and violates the description principle of focusing on what the user is trying to
achieve.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0147vXtL5sP6vorDdqXGJJU9
- references/sources.md: add YAML frontmatter with source_keys to fix provenance chain break
- SKILL.md description: make create/improve duality explicit ("Handles both the full create flow ... and the improve flow ...")
- SKILL.md Step 2: add inline metadata.source_keys instruction — fill early, not deferred to Step 5
- SKILL.md Step 6 (create) / Step 5 (improve): add pre-audit manual checklists and version bump conventions (minor for create, patch for improve)
- README.md: correct false claim that the skill bumps plugin manifests; it bumps metadata.version only
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0147vXtL5sP6vorDdqXGJJU9
skill-audit description understated its coverage by omitting three audit
dimensions (patterns, scripts, provenance); README carried the same stale
list. skill-author had an unconditional reference trigger that should be
conditional on whether a script is being added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Remove implementation-focused sentence from description (was not user-intent
language per agentskills.io spec)
- Move source_keys template comment under metadata: block to match Step 5's
instruction; contradicted agents scaffolding before reading Step 5
- Add Step 6 to new-skill.sh next-steps (populate references/sources.md);
renumber validate step to 7 — script was missing the sources step entirely
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Step 5 now records a Research doc: path per entry in references/sources.md,
pointing to the upstream plugin-level research file the slug was drawn from.
Updates the sources.md template to include the new required field, formalise
comma-separated Contributing files, and document the (none) convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- script: new-skill.sh now exits 0 when target already exists (idempotent
retry-safe) instead of exit 1; --help updated to reflect narrowed error cases
- test: updated bats test to assert success and "nothing to do" output
- body: removed speculative "Extract the skill from a real task" advice
(human-targeted, not agent-actionable)
- formatting: converted H4 headings in Step 2 to bold text (H2/H3 two-tier model)
- provenance: removed orphan agentskills-llms-txt entry from references/sources.md;
added discovery-only comment
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Records the upstream agentskills.io sources that informed skill-author,
completing the research → docs → skill provenance chain introduced in
the previous commit.
- New references/sources.md with all 7 extracted agentskillsio sources,
Contributing files attributed per-source to SKILL.md, references/deployment-modes.md,
and references/scripts.md
- source_keys frontmatter added to SKILL.md (all 7 slugs), references/deployment-modes.md
(agentskills-spec), and references/scripts.md (agentskills-using-scripts)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a sources provenance step to the skill creation workflow so the
chain from research output to skill content is traceable. Closes#4.
- New scaffold template `assets/templates/references/sources.md` mirroring
the research skill's sources.md format (slug → URL, description,
contributing files, status)
- `source_keys` commented-out optional field added to the SKILL.md
template, mirroring how research topic files link back to sources
- New Step 5 in the creation workflow: populate references/sources.md
from research input (attributing contributing skill files) or delete it
if no research was provided; add source_keys to SKILL.md and any
references/*.md files
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Body discipline: collapsed 4-bullet script rules to single critical callout
(no interactive prompts); full contract stays in references/scripts.md.
stderr discipline: redirect all confirmation/progress output in new-skill.sh
to stderr per scripts.md contract. Also expands references/scripts.md with
input validation and --help guidance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016z2ZFYHQCex8yZAMVMTZzZ
Closes#5. Single authoring skill replaces the factory trio — one set of
standards, one script, one place for future governance rules. Routes to
create or improve flow based on context. Passes skill-audit with no findings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016z2ZFYHQCex8yZAMVMTZzZ
