# skill-audit

Audit a skill directory against the agentskills.io specification and the house context-budget contract (ADR-0020). Runs structural validation then a qualitative review across description quality, body discipline, patterns, formatting, file structure, scripts, and internal consistency, plus a provenance chain check.

## What it does

1. Runs `scripts/validate.sh` and `scripts/validate-provenance.sh` for structural and provenance checks, plus `scripts/vale-wrap.sh` — a Vale prefilter that deterministically flags non-imperative description openers, composition and architecture notes, vague wording, padding phrases, and "There is/are" sentence openers
2. Reads all files in the skill directory
3. Applies qualitative checks across six dimension groups, loading one rubric from `references/` per group
4. Outputs a compact findings report — findings only, grouped by dimension, each with Why and Fix — and a result block with handoff to `skill-author`

`validate.sh` enforces two independent length families that must not be conflated: the agentskills.io spec conformance ceilings (500 lines, 2,770 words, both counting the whole file) and the ADR-0020 context budget (250/400 description characters, 600/900 body-only words, plus resolvable boundary targets).

## Usage

```
/skill-audit
```

Provide the path to the skill directory to audit when invoking.

## Files

| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents |
| `scripts/validate.sh` | Structural validator — checks name format, name matches directory, description length, line count, placeholder detection, script executable bit, and interactive-prompt detection |
| `scripts/validate-provenance.sh` | Provenance validator — checks sources.md completeness, source_keys/slug consistency, Contributing files existence, bidirectional linkage, Research doc: fields, and upstream research doc alignment |
| `scripts/vale-wrap.sh` | Vale prefilter wrapper — runs the bundled `Kyberforge` Vale styles against SKILL.md and reports alerts as deterministic FAILs ahead of Step 3's qualitative review |
| `assets/vale/.vale.ini` | Vale configuration — points Vale at the bundled `Kyberforge` style path, self-located relative to `vale-wrap.sh` |
| `assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/CompositionNote.yml` | Vale rule — flags composition and architecture notes in a description (e.g. "cross-cutting", "entry point", "rather than duplicating") |
| `assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/DescriptionOpener.yml` | Vale rule — flags non-imperative "This..." description openers |
| `assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/PaddingPhrase.yml` | Vale rule — flags generic "see references/" padding phrasing in conditional references |
| `assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/SentenceOpenerThereIs.yml` | Vale rule — flags body sentences starting with "There is"/"There are" |
| `assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/VagueWording.yml` | Vale rule — flags known filler wording (e.g. "helps with", "utilize") |
| `references/description-quality.md` | Rubric for the description dimension — three-part shape, the 250/400-character budget, the hand-invoked (`disable-model-invocation`) contract, and the internal-mechanics FAIL |
| `references/body-discipline.md` | Rubric for the body-discipline dimension — the core test, the 600/900 body-only budget against the 2,770-word whole-file backstop, the mandatory-dispatch rule, and the Gotchas constraints |
| `references/patterns.md` | Rubric for the patterns dimension — which instruction construct fits which job, and how each is correctly formed |
| `references/file-structure.md` | Rubric for the file-structure and internal-consistency dimensions — permitted directories, cross-plugin path rules and their two structural exemptions, README drift |
| `references/formatting-and-scripts.md` | Rubric for the formatting and scripts dimensions — heading and fencing conventions, and the agentic-use criteria for bundled scripts |
| `references/sources.md` | Provenance record — agentskills.io sources that informed this skill and which files each contributed to |
| `tests/validate.bats` | (source-only) Bats test suite for validate.sh |
| `tests/validate-provenance.bats` | (source-only) Bats test suite for validate-provenance.sh |
| `tests/README.md` | (source-only) Setup instructions for bats-support and bats-assert test dependencies |

Rows marked **(source-only)** exist in the authoring source (`.apm/skills/skill-audit/`) but are
not present in an installed plugin: `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` strips
`<category>/<name>/tests` when it generates the flat mirror, because these are dev-time fixtures no
plugin host needs to discover (ADR-0017). Run them from a repo checkout, not from an install.