# Merge skill-write and skill-improve into skill-author

The kyberforge plugin shipped a factory trio: `skill-write` (create), `skill-improve` (apply signals), `skill-audit` (review). Write and improve both embed authoring quality guidance inline. As standards evolve — agentskills.io spec updates, shared scripts, future governance rules — each change requires updating both skills. Plugin cache isolation makes shared reference files unworkable: `../` paths break when a plugin is copied to its install cache, and the spec explicitly prohibits cross-skill file sharing. We therefore merge `skill-write` and `skill-improve` into a single `skill-author` skill.

## Considered options

**Mirror shared files (rejected)** — duplicate `references/body-discipline.md` and any shared scripts into both skill directories with a mirror comment, relying on convention to keep them in sync. Rejected because it compounds as standards grow: every new governance rule, every spec change, requires updating two files with no enforcement mechanism. The maintenance surface is small today but was judged unacceptable as a permanent pattern.

**Status quo (rejected)** — accept that the two skills embed divergent authoring guidance. Rejected because the divergence is already observable: audit/improve loops oscillate (improve applies criteria slightly different from audit's, producing new findings on re-audit). Adding governance rules to both skills independently would worsen this.

## Consequences

- `skill-write` and `skill-improve` are deleted; invocations of `/skill-write` and `/skill-improve` break — users must switch to `/skill-author`.
- `skill-audit`'s report footer references `/skill-improve`; that reference is now stale. Update deferred to a follow-on issue.
- `skill-author` uses auto-detect routing: no existing directory → create flow; existing directory + improvement signals → improve flow; existing directory but no signals → ask.
- Shared scripts (`scripts/new-skill.sh`), reference files, templates, and tests live in one directory. Future governance rules and spec updates have a single target.