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holocron/plugins/kyberforge/skills/skill-audit/SKILL.md
Defame1297 dac9cad912 refactor(kyberforge): move audit guidance out of the per-run rubric load
skill-audit loaded roughly 4,268 words of rubric on every run, most of it
criteria for findings a clean skill never triggers. The auditing guidance moves
into finding-criteria.md, read only when a finding is actually raised, cutting
a clean audit to about 999 words. The named-skill exemption is replaced with
properties, so the rubric stops carrying a list that ages the moment a skill
is renamed.

apm-workflow's `type:` trap sat in one flow while biting several, so it is
promoted to a common gate reachable from all of them; its claim to be
self-contained was untrue once it started routing to apm-install. skill-author's
contract had drifted from body-discipline.md and is realigned, and agent-audit's
field inventory is brought in line with the same split.
2026-08-31 08:02:19 +00:00

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name, description, allowed-tools, metadata
name description allowed-tools metadata
skill-audit Use when the user wants a skill directory audited against the agentskills.io spec — "audit this skill", "review my SKILL.md", "is this ready to ship" — or after hand-editing a skill outside skill-author. Not applying fixes -> skill-author. Bash Read
category source_keys
factory
agentskills-home
agentskills-spec
agentskills-best-practices
agentskills-optimizing-descriptions
agentskills-using-scripts

Gotchas

  • Do not narrate PASS/FAIL per check while auditing. Gather findings internally and surface them only in the Step 4 report. Narrating each check as you go is the default failure mode here.
  • A skill carrying disable-model-invocation: true is hand-invoked — its description is never routed against, so the trigger, capability and boundary rules do not apply. Audit it as one plain human-facing sentence instead.
  • validate.sh reports two independent length families: the 500-line / 2,770-word pair counts the whole file for spec conformance, while the 250/400-character and 600/900-word pair is the house context budget and its word half counts the body only. A skill can sit inside one and fail the other — report them separately.
  • Vale reporting 0 files scanned means NOT RUN, not clean. Fall back to full Step 3 judgment for every dimension it would have covered.

Step 1 — Deterministic checks

Resolve all three paths against this skill's own directory so they work from a repo checkout and an installed plugin cache alike. Run exactly:

bash scripts/validate.sh <skill-dir>
bash scripts/validate-provenance.sh <skill-dir>
bash scripts/vale-wrap.sh <skill-dir>/SKILL.md

validate.sh findings become the ### Structure dimension — its FAILs and its SUGGESTIONs both.

If any of the three cannot run, or exits non-zero for a reason other than findings, read references/validation-scripts.md — it carries the manual fallback and the misleading exit codes. Ordinary content FAILs are the expected outcome here and need no fallback.

validate-provenance.sh prints nothing on success. Its FAIL and INFO findings become a separate ### Provenance dimension, and it emits Why and Fix itself — surface those verbatim.

vale-wrap.sh applies the bundled Kyberforge style as a prefilter. Pass no --config; the wrapper locates its own. Every rule is graded error, so every alert is a FAIL. Report each one citing its rule ID, filed under the dimension it belongs to, and do not re-derive it by judgment:

Rule Dimension
Kyberforge.DescriptionOpener, Kyberforge.CompositionNote, Kyberforge.VagueWording description
Kyberforge.SentenceOpenerThereIs body-discipline
Kyberforge.PaddingPhrase patterns

Step 2 — Read the whole skill

Read SKILL.md, README.md, and every text file under scripts/, references/, assets/ and tests/. Skip binaries only — internal-consistency findings need the full picture.

Step 3 — Qualitative audit

Read references/finding-criteria.md first — every dimension's FAIL and SUGGESTION criteria. Load the rubric below only for a dimension the criteria put in play: one carrying a candidate finding, or one where the criterion alone does not settle the call.

Dimension Rubric
description references/description-quality.md
body-discipline references/body-discipline.md
patterns references/patterns.md
file-structure, internal-consistency references/file-structure.md
formatting, scripts references/formatting-and-scripts.md

Each rubric is self-contained and grounded in the agentskills.io specification plus the house context budget (ADR-0020). Cite file and line number for every finding.

Step 4 — Report

Open with a coverage line naming every dimension checked:

Checked: structure · description · body-discipline · patterns · file-structure · formatting · scripts · internal-consistency · provenance

Then output only the dimensions that have findings, grouped under H3 headings, FAILs before SUGGESTIONs within each. Omit clean dimensions — their absence is what confirms they passed.

Each finding:

FAIL/SUGGESTION  <finding> — file:line
                 Why: <why this is a problem>
                 Fix: <exact change — quote before/after where applicable>

Close with a ## Result block holding one line: PASS, PASS (N suggestions), or FAIL (N fails · M suggestions), each optionally followed by · P info. INFO findings are observational and never change PASS/FAIL; omit · P info when there are none. Add a second line, Run skill-author to address findings., whenever there is at least one finding. Do not apply fixes — report and propose only.