references/sources.md Research doc: fields are development-only provenance pointers, not runtime references — they intentionally target paths outside the skill directory and are expected to be non-resolvable after plugin install. validate-provenance.sh degrades gracefully when they don't resolve. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
skill-audit
Audit a skill directory against the agentskills.io specification. Runs structural validation then a qualitative review across description quality, body discipline, formatting, file structure, and internal consistency.
What it does
- Runs
scripts/validate.shandscripts/validate-provenance.shfor structural and provenance checks - Reads all files in the skill directory
- Applies qualitative checks across seven dimensions
- Outputs a compact findings report — findings only, grouped by dimension, each with Why and Fix — and a result block with handoff to /skill-improve
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 length, line count, 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 |
references/description-quality.md |
Spec-grounded rubric for description auditing — loaded when a finding is borderline |
references/body-discipline.md |
Spec-grounded rubric for body discipline auditing — loaded when padding vs necessity is unclear |
references/sources.md |
Provenance record — agentskills.io sources that informed this skill and which files each contributed to |
tests/validate.bats |
Bats test suite for validate.sh |
tests/validate-provenance.bats |
Bats test suite for validate-provenance.sh |
tests/README.md |
Setup instructions for bats-support and bats-assert test dependencies |