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Defame1297 2540e50fcc feat(kyberforge): give skill-author a procedure for the #99 retrofit
ADR-0020 shipped its gates hot with no baseline file, so 26 of 39 descriptions
and 9 of 39 bodies are over their FAIL tier and editing any of them for any
reason requires bringing the skill into contract first. `references/improve.md`
said exactly that and stopped there — it mandated a retrofit and supplied no
procedure for one.

Four dry-run retrofits confirmed what that costs. Asked the same questions —
what to cut first, when a body is two flows rather than one, what else has to
change alongside — they invented six to ten different answers, so the same skill
retrofitted twice produced two different skills and neither run could be reviewed
against anything.

`references/retrofit.md` fixes the answers: an ordered cut list ranked by tokens
removed against behaviour lost (inverting that order is how a retrofit deletes the
instruction the skill existed to carry), the test for whether a body holds two
mutually exclusive flows, the reference-file conventions, the collateral checklist
for `README.md` and `references/sources.md`, and a worked description retrofit.

It also states the trap the dry runs kept hitting: retrofit the skill in place,
inside its package. The boundary-target universe is built by walking up from the
file being checked, so a scratch copy has no authoring root above it, the check
prints `INFO ... DID NOT RUN`, and the run still exits 0 — a line that reads as a
pass and is not one. A retrofit signed off on a copy carries an unverified
boundary target into the corpus.

Loaded from the improve flow only when a budget is actually exceeded, so a routine
improvement pays nothing for it.

Refs: ADR-0020, #99
2026-08-16 16:40:19 +00:00

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agentskills-evaluating-skills
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agentskills-home

  • URL: https://agentskills.io/home.md
  • Research doc: plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/docs/agentskillsio/sources.md
  • Description: Agent Skills overview — what it is, why it exists, progressive disclosure model, ecosystem of 35+ implementing tools
  • Contributing files: SKILL.md, references/create.md
  • Status: extracted

agentskills-spec

  • URL: https://agentskills.io/specification.md
  • Research doc: plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/docs/agentskillsio/sources.md
  • Description: Complete SKILL.md format specification — frontmatter fields, constraints, body content, optional directories, progressive disclosure levels, file references, validation
  • Contributing files: SKILL.md, references/create.md, references/contract.md, references/deployment-modes.md
  • Status: extracted

agentskills-best-practices

  • URL: https://agentskills.io/skill-creation/best-practices.md
  • Research doc: plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/docs/agentskillsio/sources.md
  • Description: Best practices for skill creators — starting from real expertise, spending context wisely, calibrating control, instruction patterns (gotchas, templates, checklists, validation loops)
  • Contributing files: SKILL.md, references/create.md, references/improve.md, references/contract.md, references/retrofit.md
  • Status: extracted

agentskills-optimizing-descriptions

  • URL: https://agentskills.io/skill-creation/optimizing-descriptions.md
  • Research doc: plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/docs/agentskillsio/sources.md
  • Description: How to systematically test and improve skill descriptions for triggering accuracy — eval queries, trigger rate testing, train/validation splits, optimization loop
  • Contributing files: SKILL.md, references/improve.md, references/contract.md, references/retrofit.md
  • Status: extracted

agentskills-evaluating-skills

  • URL: https://agentskills.io/skill-creation/evaluating-skills.md
  • Research doc: plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/docs/agentskillsio/sources.md
  • Description: Eval-driven skill quality improvement — test case design, workspace structure, assertion writing, grading, benchmarking, human review, iteration loop
  • Contributing files: SKILL.md, references/improve.md
  • Status: extracted

agentskills-using-scripts

  • URL: https://agentskills.io/skill-creation/using-scripts.md
  • Research doc: plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/docs/agentskillsio/sources.md
  • Description: Using scripts in skills — one-off commands, self-contained scripts with inline dependencies, designing scripts for agentic use (no interactive prompts, --help, structured output, idempotency)
  • Contributing files: SKILL.md, references/create.md, references/scripts.md
  • Status: extracted

agentskills-quickstart

  • URL: https://agentskills.io/skill-creation/quickstart.md
  • Research doc: plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/docs/agentskillsio/sources.md
  • Description: Step-by-step guide to creating a first skill (roll-dice example), how discovery/activation/execution work in practice
  • Contributing files: SKILL.md, references/create.md
  • Status: extracted