# AGENTS.md tooling lives in `core`, split into three skills

`kyberforge` is scoped to meta-tooling for building and maintaining the holocron marketplace itself (skills, agents, plugins, marketplace entries) — not to generic capabilities for an arbitrary target repo. Authoring and reviewing a target repo's `AGENTS.md` file is repo-agnostic documentation tooling, closer in kind to `bin:write-docs` or `bin:init` than to `skill-author`/`plugin-author`. Research for this topic was initially placed under `plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/docs/agentsmd/` but has moved to `plugins/core/docs/research/docs/agentsmd/` to keep the provenance chain consistent with the plugin the resulting skills live in.

## Decision

Three skills in the `core` plugin (`core`'s first active skills):

- **`agentsmd-author`** — creates/updates a target repo's `AGENTS.md`, including nested monorepo placement (nearest-file-wins). Closes out by invoking `agentsmd-audit` inline, mirroring the `skill-author`/`skill-audit` pattern. When it detects an existing provider-specific file (`CLAUDE.md`, etc.) with content that duplicates what AGENTS.md should own, it calls `provider-adapter-author` via skill composition.
- **`agentsmd-audit`** — a single combined pass checking three mandatory baselines against `AGENTS.md` only: secrets/credentials (governance.md hard prohibition), structural completeness (common-sections checklist from the agents.md spec), and accuracy/drift (do referenced commands/paths resolve against the repo). Never inspects provider adapter files.
- **`provider-adapter-author`** — detects and converts a provider-specific instruction file into a thin adapter that imports `AGENTS.md` (mirroring this repo's own two-tier `CLAUDE.md` pattern). Self-validates via its own bundled deterministic script (`scripts/validate-adapter.sh`) rather than a separate paired audit skill, since the check (import present, no duplicated headings, size threshold) is mechanical.

## Consequences

- `core`'s plugin.json/README will list real skills for the first time.
- `plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/docs/agentsmd/` moves to `plugins/core/docs/research/docs/agentsmd/` before authoring begins.