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Vale locates a frontmatter description by matching the parsed YAML value back against the source text, so any scalar whose value is not spelled out verbatim loses the `text.frontmatter.description` scope entirely. The wrapper only flattened `>` folded scalars, so plain, double-quoted and single-quoted multi-line descriptions silently reported zero alerts and exit 0 — a clean pass indistinguishable from a real one, in a prefilter whose callers are instructed not to re-derive its verdict by judgment. Implementation notes: - Classify the scalar kind after `^description:[ \t]*` and reuse one shared continuation-line generator for every form; `|` literal blocks keep their line breaks, stay verbatim-matchable, and are still left untouched. - Emit the flattened value in whichever scalar form needs no escape at all (plain, then single-quoted, then double-quoted), because any escape breaks the verbatim match. The old blanket `'` -> U+2019 substitution silently made apostrophe-bearing rule tokens unmatchable across 63% of the corpus; it now survives only for the one combination no YAML scalar can carry verbatim. - Terminate continuations at a line flush with the key, not only on a shallower indent — a `description:` followed by a flush-left line previously swallowed the rest of the frontmatter. - Route vale's value-taking flags explicitly instead of inferring targets by file existence, and absolutize relative `--output`/`--path` values the way `--config` already was, since the run `cd`s into the scratch mirror. - Fail loudly on a nonexistent path instead of inheriting bare vale's fallback to stdin, which rendered a typo'd path as `0 errors ... in stdin`, exit 0 — a form the callers' `0 files` NOT-RUN guard cannot match. - Follow symlinks when walking a directory argument, matching bare vale. Refs: #85
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 |