Two related simplification-audit findings, bundled because they edit
some of the same skill-audit files and splitting would fragment
single-file diffs.
Finding 10: delete 48 per-skill/reference README.md files (they
restated SKILL.md in narrative form and no agent ever loads them) plus
2 scaffold templates. Drop the README criterion from skill-audit's
file-structure.md and finding-criteria.md, and the README-generation
step from skill-author's new-skill.sh; update new-skill.bats to match.
Plugin-root READMEs are kept intentionally, out of scope.
Finding 12: strip historical ADR-0020/ADR-0023 citations and
changelog-style narration from model-facing skill content across
kyberforge and git plugin skills. Delete skill-author's one-time
retrofit.md migration guide and its references. Some ADR-0023 tags
were not narration but check-rtk-prefix's required opt-out marker for
intentionally-bare git commands -- those were restored, not stripped.
Mirror re-synced and full pre-commit/pre-push suite verified green.
Refs: SIMPLIFICATION-AUDIT.md findings 10, 12
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
Skill name+description pairs are preloaded into every session, costing
~6,200 tokens across 39 skills before any skill is invoked. The authoring
rules mandated that growth: skill-author:104 and description-quality.md:21
both required padding, while skill-author:102 (the deflating rule) had no
FAIL condition behind it.
Gates (blocking, no baseline file):
- description 250 chars SUGGESTION / 400 FAIL, measured on the folded
YAML value
- body-only 600 words SUGGESTION / 900 FAIL, independent of the unchanged
whole-file 2770-word / 500-line spec backstop
- every boundary-clause routing target must resolve to a real skill or
agent; catches skill-improve, neuledge-context and gitea-labels
- agents take the description gates but deliberately no body gate; a test
pins that absence
Vale: DescriptionOpener widened to ^This\b, new CompositionNote rule
banning architecture notes from descriptions. 10 hits, 0 false positives.
Kyberforge's own four skills retrofitted: descriptions 3,364 -> 938 chars
(-72%), bodies 8,306 -> 2,487 words (-70%), all via the apm-workflow
dispatch pattern. Fixes the skill-improve dangling route and the
agent-author misroute to manual review.
Also fixes a pre-existing false positive where any line-initial 'read '
was flagged as interactive input, which had already caused two scripts to
be rewritten around it.
Refs: ADR-0020
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>
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>
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
