skill-audit/agent-audit's Step 1 resolved vale-wrap.sh/.vale.ini via `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`, which returns whichever repo the skill happens to run in. Inside ai-development that works; in any external repo that installs kyberforge@holocron as a plugin, it resolves to that repo's own root, which has no .vale.ini — the prefilter silently fell back to full LLM judgment. ADR-0013 named this as a deliberately deferred gap. Vale's config/styles/wrapper now ship inside the plugin itself: a canonical copy in agent-audit/assets/vale/ (Kyberforge + KyberforgeCopilot, the superset agent-audit needs) and a smaller duplicate in skill-audit/assets/vale/ (Kyberforge only) — per the no-cross-skill-path rule already established for plugin cache-installs. Both skills resolve these relative to their own directory, same as scripts/validate.sh already does. A new root .pre-commit-hooks.yaml exposes both copies plus skill-size-check so any external repo can enforce the same rules via `repo: <this-repo-url>, rev: <tag>` in its own pre-commit config, independent of Claude Code entirely — the same mechanism covers CI. This repo's own pre-commit hook now consumes the identical plugin-bundled copies via repo: local (not a third root copy, and not a pinned self-reference, which would lint working-tree edits against the last tagged release instead of the change being made). Split into vale-audit-prefilter-skill/-agent hooks after confirming, by diffing the full corpus against both old and new config before deleting the old files, that one combined hook pointed at only one copy silently 0-file- skips the other file type. scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh guards the two copies against drift, wired at pre-push alongside check-manifests. ADR: 0014
skill-audit
Audit a skill directory against the agentskills.io specification. Runs structural validation then a qualitative review across description quality, body discipline, patterns, formatting, file structure, scripts, and internal consistency, plus a provenance chain check.
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 |