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
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create.md
The create flow, loaded from SKILL.md Step 1 when no agent file exists at the target path.
Covers: prerequisites, the scaffold script and its scope walk-up, what to fill in at every scope,
and populating or deleting the package-root sources.md.
improve.md
The improve flow, loaded from SKILL.md Step 1 when a file exists and at least one improvement signal is present. Covers: signal verification, partial-pair recovery, root-cause grouping, generalizing rather than patching, delegation over growth, and the ADR-0020 retrofit rule.
contract.md
The description and body contract, loaded from SKILL.md Step 3 before any description is written or any body restructured. Covers: the three-part description shape, banned description content, boundary-target resolution, the 250/400 length tiers, the body role-instruction pattern, the delegation rule that replaces a body word gate, and the invocation axis.
plugin-scope.md
Field rules and the pre-audit checklist for the single vendor-neutral .apm/agents/<name>.agent.md
file. Loaded from SKILL.md Step 2 when the scaffold resolves plugin/APM scope.
project-user-scope.md
Field rules and the pre-audit checklist for the Claude Code .md + Copilot .agent.md pair,
including the two distinct Copilot formats. Loaded from SKILL.md Step 2 when the scaffold resolves
project or user scope.
deployment-modes.md
Scope hierarchy and precedence, scoped identifiers for plugin subdirectory agents, cache isolation behaviour, and Copilot CLI path conventions. Loaded from SKILL.md Step 2 when precedence, paths or cache isolation matter to the run.
scripts.md
Conventions for the new-agent.sh scaffold script, the templates it copies, and any future script
in this skill. Loaded from create.md Step 1 when the script or a template has to change. Covers:
the no-interactive-prompts rule, structured output, idempotency, template variables, file
placement, error messages, and the no-restated-field-roster rule that tests/new-agent.bats
enforces.
sources.md
Research provenance record for this skill. Lists the upstream research sources
(claude-code-plugins and github-copilot-plugins research docs) that informed SKILL.md and the
reference files. Used by skill-audit to validate the provenance chain.