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Round-3 review of PR #85 found the "enforcing" pre-commit hook enforced nothing. Vale's exit code keys on error-level alerts alone: five of the six rules were level: warning, so they exited 0, and pre-commit hides output from a passing hook — the alerts were invisible and blocked nothing. ADR-0013 rejected a report-only trial tier and then shipped one by accident. Flatten every rule to level: error. Vale's own exit code is then correct, so the hook entry drops to a bare vale-wrap.sh call and the graded error->FAIL / warning->SUGGESTION mapping disappears from both audit skills: every alert is a FAIL, in the gate and the audit alike. No ignorable tier, matching shellcheck, the test suite and conventional-pre-commit. Delete Kyberforge.VagueQualifier. Measured against the 41 skill/agent files as they stood before the rule ever ran: 2 hits. One marginal ("very different" -> "fundamentally different"), one an unfixable false positive — caveman/SKILL.md quotes "of course" as an example of filler, a mention not a use — which forced the only Vale suppression comments in the repo. Those four lines go with it; two of them were dead anyway, suppressing a frontmatter-scoped rule on a body line. Held-out prose (273 files) fired 15 times, 9 inside out-of-scope research examples and the rest one word in two idioms in a single doc. SentenceOpenerThereIs survives: 22 held-out hits, both in-corpus hits clean rewrites, zero suppressions. Widen .vale.ini's globs to [**/SKILL.md], [**/agents/*.md] and [**/*.agent.md]. The plugins/*/-prefixed globs scoped nothing — Vale's * crosses /, so they already matched docs/research/examples/**/agents/*.md and assets/templates/SKILL.md, the two paths CONTEXT.md claimed they excluded. Scoping is and was the hook's files: regex. The old globs also hid a silent false negative: a skill outside plugins/ matched no section, so Vale reported 0 files and exited 0, which both audits read as clean. They now treat a 0-file run as NOT RUN and fall back to full judgment. Also: - vale-wrap.sh resolves relative --config values and file arguments against the caller's cwd, as vale does, instead of the repo root, which hard-errored from a subdirectory and silently skipped flattening for file args that did not resolve from the root. Absolute paths inside the cwd are relativized so reports cite resolvable paths, not scratch ones. - vale-run's exit-code model was documented backwards ("exits non-zero whenever it finds an alert at or above MinAlertLevel") and would have led anyone following it to build a gate that passes everything. Its Markdown suppression syntax was MDX-only and does not suppress in .md; corrected in the skill and its troubleshooting reference, with backtick/fence exemption documented as the first resort. - skill-size-check.sh fails only above 500 lines, agreeing with skill-audit's validate.sh <= 500 pass. - ADR-0013 and CONTEXT.md amended to match, recording why graded severities cannot gate. Verified: 9 test scripts / 15 vale-wrap cases pass; vale-audit-prefilter, skill-size-check and shellcheck pass --all-files; check-manifests and claude plugin validate --strict clean. New tests fail against the old script (3 of them) and pass against the new one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MCQ648fLSFXPHGZdQ8gn58
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 |