The ADR-0020 body trim took `skill-audit` from 2,623 body words to a dispatch shape, and two things went out with it that were not padding. The manual structural fallback was one. Its replacement was a single sentence telling the auditor to report an INFO when `validate.sh` cannot run — so with no `python3` or no PyYAML, `skill-audit` reported the gap honestly and then audited nothing structural at all. Every ADR-0020 measurement, the whole-file ceilings, the name-to-directory match, the `references/` pointer check and the script hygiene checks silently left the audit. A skill's whole Structure dimension hanging on one optional interpreter is the same vacuous-pass shape the gate scripts were just fixed for, one layer up. The `E100 Runtime error ... does not exist` diagnostic was the other. That exit code means an explicit relative `--config` was passed to `vale-wrap.sh` while vale itself was installed and working; without the note, Step 1's fallback reads exit 2 as "vale unavailable" and downgrades the description, body-discipline and patterns dimensions to full LLM judgment for a config error it could have fixed. That misreading is already recorded in CONTEXT.md as the reason both audit skills stopped passing `--config` at all. Both are restored in `references/validation-scripts.md`, loaded only when a Step 1 script fails — so the body pays nothing for them on a clean run, which is what the dispatch pattern is for. The file also carries the by-hand boundary-target procedure and the three ways to misread the result, including that `INFO ... DID NOT RUN` is not a pass. `references/file-structure.md` gains the one sanctioned spelling for a cross-skill reference. The possessive form (``skill-audit's references/validation-scripts.md``) is the only spelling both rules accept: a full repo path is what that section already forbids, and a bare `references/<file>.md` is now a hard ERROR from the ADR-0020 pointer check, which requires the file to exist in the skill's *own* directory. Without the rule the two constraints look mutually exclusive. Refs: ADR-0020
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---
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name: skill-audit
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description: >
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Use when the user wants a skill directory audited against the agentskills.io
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spec — "audit this skill", "review my SKILL.md", "is this ready to ship" — or
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after hand-editing a skill outside skill-author. Not applying fixes ->
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skill-author.
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allowed-tools: Bash Read
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metadata:
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category: factory
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source_keys:
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- agentskills-home
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- agentskills-spec
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- agentskills-best-practices
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- agentskills-optimizing-descriptions
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- agentskills-using-scripts
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---
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## Gotchas
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- Do not narrate PASS/FAIL per check while auditing. Gather findings internally and surface them only in the Step 4 report. Narrating each check as you go is the default failure mode here.
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- A skill carrying `disable-model-invocation: true` is hand-invoked — its description is never routed against, so the trigger, capability and boundary rules do not apply. Audit it as one plain human-facing sentence instead.
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- `validate.sh` reports two independent length families: the 500-line / 2,770-word pair counts the whole file for spec conformance, while the 250/400-character and 600/900-word pair is the house context budget and its word half counts the **body only**. A skill can sit inside one and fail the other — report them separately.
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- Vale reporting `0 files` scanned means NOT RUN, not clean. Fall back to full Step 3 judgment for every dimension it would have covered.
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## Step 1 — Deterministic checks
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Resolve all three paths against this skill's own directory so they work from a repo checkout and an installed plugin cache alike. Run exactly:
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```bash
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bash scripts/validate.sh <skill-dir>
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bash scripts/validate-provenance.sh <skill-dir>
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scripts/vale-wrap.sh <skill-dir>/SKILL.md
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```
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`validate.sh` findings become the `### Structure` dimension — its FAILs and its SUGGESTIONs both.
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If any of the three fails, cannot run, or reports something needing interpretation, read `references/validation-scripts.md` — it carries the manual fallback and the misleading exit codes.
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`validate-provenance.sh` prints nothing on success. Its FAIL and INFO findings become a separate `### Provenance` dimension, and it emits Why and Fix itself — surface those verbatim.
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`vale-wrap.sh` applies the bundled `Kyberforge` style as a prefilter. Pass no `--config`; the wrapper locates its own. Every rule is graded `error`, so every alert is a FAIL. Report each one citing its rule ID, filed under the dimension it belongs to, and do not re-derive it by judgment:
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| Rule | Dimension |
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| `Kyberforge.DescriptionOpener`, `Kyberforge.CompositionNote`, `Kyberforge.VagueWording` | description |
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| `Kyberforge.SentenceOpenerThereIs` | body-discipline |
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| `Kyberforge.PaddingPhrase` | patterns |
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## Step 2 — Read the whole skill
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Read `SKILL.md`, `README.md`, and every text file under `scripts/`, `references/`, `assets/` and `tests/`. Skip binaries only — internal-consistency findings need the full picture.
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## Step 3 — Qualitative audit
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Load a dimension's rubric before judging that dimension. Each is self-contained, and each is grounded in the agentskills.io specification plus the house context-budget contract (ADR-0020).
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| Dimension | Read |
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| description | `references/description-quality.md` |
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| body-discipline | `references/body-discipline.md` |
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| patterns | `references/patterns.md` |
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| file-structure, internal-consistency | `references/file-structure.md` |
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| formatting, scripts | `references/formatting-and-scripts.md` |
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Cite file and line number for every finding.
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## Step 4 — Report
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Open with a coverage line naming every dimension checked:
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```text
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Checked: structure · description · body-discipline · patterns · file-structure · formatting · scripts · internal-consistency · provenance
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```
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Then output only the dimensions that have findings, grouped under H3 headings, FAILs before SUGGESTIONs within each. Omit clean dimensions — their absence is what confirms they passed.
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Each finding:
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```text
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FAIL/SUGGESTION <finding> — file:line
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Why: <why this is a problem>
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Fix: <exact change — quote before/after where applicable>
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```
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Close with a `## Result` block holding one line: `PASS`, `PASS (N suggestions)`, or `FAIL (N fails · M suggestions)`, each optionally followed by ` · P info`. INFO findings are observational and never change PASS/FAIL; omit `· P info` when there are none. Add a second line, `Run skill-author to address findings.`, whenever there is at least one finding. Do not apply fixes — report and propose only.
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