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holocron/plugins/kyberforge/skills/skill-audit
Defame1297 7e80c09b13 fix(kyberforge): a dispatch table satisfies the reference-wiring rule
body-discipline.md required every reference load to use the literal
'If X, read references/file.md' form and called anything else a generic
pointer. ADR-0020's own cited dispatch exemplar, apm-workflow, uses a
bare table plus one closing line, so an author could not satisfy both --
and the rule reliably produced duplication in exactly the bodies the
contract exists to keep short.

Resolves #109 with its option 1: a table row already pairs a condition
with a target, so where a body dispatches, the table is the wiring. The
literal form is what a body needs when it loads a reference without a
table.

Two corrections to the issue as filed. There is no Vale conflict --
PaddingPhrase.yml only matches 'see references/ for more info' and never
fired on the exemplar, so this is a one-file prose fix and no rule
changes. And gitea-workflow carried the predicted duplication: a
three-row table restated underneath as three conditionals. Removed, body
227 -> 148 words.

Closes #109
2026-08-30 15:07:16 +00:00
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skill-audit

Audit a skill directory against the agentskills.io specification and the house context-budget contract (ADR-0020). 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

  1. Runs scripts/validate.sh and scripts/validate-provenance.sh for structural and provenance checks, plus scripts/vale-wrap.sh — a Vale prefilter that deterministically flags non-imperative description openers, composition and architecture notes, vague wording, padding phrases, and "There is/are" sentence openers
  2. Reads all files in the skill directory
  3. Applies qualitative checks across five dimension groups, loading one rubric from references/ per group
  4. Outputs a compact findings report — findings only, grouped by dimension, each with Why and Fix — and a result block with handoff to skill-author

validate.sh enforces two independent length families that must not be conflated: the agentskills.io spec conformance ceilings (500 lines, 2,770 words, both counting the whole file) and the ADR-0020 context budget (250/400 description characters, 600/900 body-only words).

Alongside those it runs four shape checks that are not length measurements at all. Two are FAILs: every routing target named in the description — in the compressed Not <thing> -> <name> arrow and in the prose form — must resolve to a real skill or agent, and every references/<file>.md the body names must exist on disk. Three are SUGGESTIONs: a missing boundary clause, a Gotchas section over five entries, and a Gotchas section over 25% of the body. The resolution universe for boundary targets is derived by walking up from the audited SKILL.md — the authoring root above it, its own apm package, and that package's declared apm.yml dependencies — so a fresh clone and a machine that has run apm install return the same verdict. When no universe can be determined the check prints INFO ... DID NOT RUN and does not silently pass.

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 presence and length, body-only word count, line and whole-file word ceilings, boundary-clause presence, boundary-target resolution, references/ pointer existence, Gotchas entry count and body share, 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
scripts/vale-wrap.sh Vale prefilter wrapper — runs the bundled Kyberforge Vale styles against SKILL.md and reports alerts as deterministic FAILs ahead of Step 3's qualitative review
assets/vale/.vale.ini Vale configuration — points Vale at the bundled Kyberforge style path, self-located relative to vale-wrap.sh
assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/CompositionNote.yml Vale rule — flags composition and architecture notes in a description (e.g. "cross-cutting", "entry point", "rather than duplicating")
assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/DescriptionOpener.yml Vale rule — flags non-imperative "This..." description openers
assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/PaddingPhrase.yml Vale rule — flags generic "see references/" padding phrasing in conditional references
assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/SentenceOpenerThereIs.yml Vale rule — flags body sentences starting with "There is"/"There are"
assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/VagueWording.yml Vale rule — flags known filler wording (e.g. "helps with", "utilize")
references/description-quality.md Rubric for the description dimension — three-part shape, the 250/400-character budget, the hand-invoked (disable-model-invocation) contract, and the internal-mechanics FAIL
references/body-discipline.md Rubric for the body-discipline dimension — the core test, the 600/900 body-only budget against the 2,770-word whole-file backstop, the mandatory-dispatch rule, and the Gotchas constraints
references/patterns.md Rubric for the patterns dimension — which instruction construct fits which job, and how each is correctly formed
references/file-structure.md Rubric for the file-structure and internal-consistency dimensions — permitted directories, cross-plugin path rules and their two structural exemptions, README drift
references/formatting-and-scripts.md Rubric for the formatting and scripts dimensions — heading and fencing conventions, and the agentic-use criteria for bundled scripts
references/validation-scripts.md Step 1 troubleshooting — the manual structural fallback when validate.sh cannot run, and the script exit codes that are easy to misread (loaded only on a script failure)
references/sources.md Provenance record — agentskills.io sources that informed this skill and which files each contributed to
tests/validate.bats (source-only) Bats test suite for validate.sh
tests/validate-provenance.bats (source-only) Bats test suite for validate-provenance.sh
tests/README.md (source-only) Setup instructions for bats-support and bats-assert test dependencies

Rows marked (source-only) exist in the authoring source (.apm/skills/skill-audit/) but are not present in an installed plugin: scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh strips <category>/<name>/tests when it generates the flat mirror, because these are dev-time fixtures no plugin host needs to discover (ADR-0017). Run them from a repo checkout, not from an install.