Files

Defame1297 484357a3b9 fix(gates): parse the bullet form of Contributing files

validate-provenance.sh matched Contributing files only as a single inline
line beginning "- **Contributing files:**". Seven skills write it as a
bare "**Contributing files:**" heading above a bullet list, so
parse_contributing_files returned None and checks 4 (contributing file
exists) and 5 (bidirectional source_keys) silently verified nothing on
git-branches, git-remotes, git-submodules, git-workflow, git-worktrees,
gitea-files and gitea-releases.

Those are among the skills this branch changed most — git-branches alone
gained five reference files — and the retrofit's mandatory sources.md
collateral went in unchecked. Demonstrated rather than argued: planting a
nonexistent contributing path in git-remotes yields 0 findings under the
old parser and 1 FAIL under the new one.

Both forms are now accepted. The bullet form is parsed per bullet rather
than by splitting a joined value, because its per-file notes contain
commas that would otherwise be read as path separators. The return type
becomes a list of note-stripped paths, with "(none)" as an empty list and
an absent entry as None, so the two callers no longer re-split a string.

Applied to agent-audit's copy as well. No agent ships a sources.md today,
so it is latent there, but it is the same defect.

This is a third gate blind spot alongside #117 and #118, and was unfiled.
One real defect surfaced immediately and is fixed separately.

Refs #99

2026-08-30 20:51:56 +00:00

assets/vale

feat(kyberforge): enforce the ADR-0020 context contract for skills and agents

2026-08-14 21:13:13 +00:00

references

fix(apm-workflow): type: selects processing, it does not validate content

2026-08-30 20:51:45 +00:00

scripts

fix(gates): parse the bullet form of Contributing files

2026-08-30 20:51:56 +00:00

README.md

fix(kyberforge): restore skill-audit's script-failure fallback and E100 diagnostic

2026-08-16 16:40:00 +00:00

SKILL.md

fix(kyberforge): restore the authoring rules the ADR-0020 trim dropped

2026-08-16 19:49:38 +00:00

README.md

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

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
Reads all files in the skill directory
Applies qualitative checks across five dimension groups, loading one rubric from references/ per group
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).

Alongside those it runs four shape checks that are not length measurements at all. Two are FAILs: every routing target named in the description — in the compressed Not <thing> -> <name> arrow and in the prose form — must resolve to a real skill or agent, and every references/<file>.md the body names must exist on disk. Three are SUGGESTIONs: a missing boundary clause, a Gotchas section over five entries, and a Gotchas section over 25% of the body. The resolution universe for boundary targets is derived by walking up from the audited SKILL.md — the authoring root above it, its own apm package, and that package's declared apm.yml dependencies — so a fresh clone and a machine that has run apm install return the same verdict. When no universe can be determined the check prints INFO ... DID NOT RUN and does not silently pass.

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 presence and length, body-only word count, line and whole-file word ceilings, boundary-clause presence, boundary-target resolution, `references/` pointer existence, Gotchas entry count and body share, 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/validation-scripts.md`	Step 1 troubleshooting — the manual structural fallback when `validate.sh` cannot run, and the script exit codes that are easy to misread (loaded only on a script failure)
`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.