Skill name+description pairs are preloaded into every session, costing
~6,200 tokens across 39 skills before any skill is invoked. The authoring
rules mandated that growth: skill-author:104 and description-quality.md:21
both required padding, while skill-author:102 (the deflating rule) had no
FAIL condition behind it.
Gates (blocking, no baseline file):
- description 250 chars SUGGESTION / 400 FAIL, measured on the folded
YAML value
- body-only 600 words SUGGESTION / 900 FAIL, independent of the unchanged
whole-file 2770-word / 500-line spec backstop
- every boundary-clause routing target must resolve to a real skill or
agent; catches skill-improve, neuledge-context and gitea-labels
- agents take the description gates but deliberately no body gate; a test
pins that absence
Vale: DescriptionOpener widened to ^This\b, new CompositionNote rule
banning architecture notes from descriptions. 10 hits, 0 false positives.
Kyberforge's own four skills retrofitted: descriptions 3,364 -> 938 chars
(-72%), bodies 8,306 -> 2,487 words (-70%), all via the apm-workflow
dispatch pattern. Fixes the skill-improve dangling route and the
agent-author misroute to manual review.
Also fixes a pre-existing false positive where any line-initial 'read '
was flagged as interactive input, which had already caused two scripts to
be rewritten around it.
Refs: ADR-0020
Rubric for the description dimension — three-part shape, the 250/400-character budget, the hand-invoked contract, and the internal-mechanics FAIL.
body-and-delegation.md
Rubric for the body, delegation and comment-discipline dimensions — the delegation FAIL, why agents take no body word gate, and what an agent body is for.
scope-plugin-apm.md
Contract for a single vendor-neutral .apm/agents/<name>.agent.md file — allowlist, dimension routing, and the dimensions that do not apply.
scope-project-user.md
Contract for a Claude Code / Copilot file pair — counterpart derivation, provider field rules, and pair consistency.
validation-scripts.md
Loaded only when a Step 1 script fails or cannot run — scope-detection walk-up, manual fallback checks, and known script failures.
field-inventory.md
Authoritative field lists, read as data by validate.sh: valid CC and Copilot agent fields, and the vendor-neutral plugin/APM allowlist.
sources.md
Research provenance records for skill content. Load only when tracing the origin of a specific rule or field constraint.
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