Two related simplification-audit findings, bundled because they edit some of the same skill-audit files and splitting would fragment single-file diffs. Finding 10: delete 48 per-skill/reference README.md files (they restated SKILL.md in narrative form and no agent ever loads them) plus 2 scaffold templates. Drop the README criterion from skill-audit's file-structure.md and finding-criteria.md, and the README-generation step from skill-author's new-skill.sh; update new-skill.bats to match. Plugin-root READMEs are kept intentionally, out of scope. Finding 12: strip historical ADR-0020/ADR-0023 citations and changelog-style narration from model-facing skill content across kyberforge and git plugin skills. Delete skill-author's one-time retrofit.md migration guide and its references. Some ADR-0023 tags were not narration but check-rtk-prefix's required opt-out marker for intentionally-bare git commands -- those were restored, not stripped. Mirror re-synced and full pre-commit/pre-push suite verified green. Refs: SIMPLIFICATION-AUDIT.md findings 10, 12 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
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| 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 |
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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: trueis 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.shreports 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 filesscanned 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, at the tier the script assigned. Report each once; never re-grade one under another dimension. Unresolved boundary targets are where this bites, because their tier turns on notation.
Read references/validation-scripts.md when any of the three cannot run or exits non-zero for a reason other than findings, and whenever validate-provenance.sh exits 0 having printed anything. Ordinary content FAILs are the expected outcome here and need no fallback.
validate-provenance.sh reports through exit code and output; neither alone is the verdict. 0, silent is a genuine pass. 0 with output is INFO-only findings — still a ### Provenance dimension; references/validation-scripts.md says what each obliges — for a check-9 INFO, reading rather than relaying. 1 is FAILs plus any INFOs; it emits Why and Fix itself — surface those verbatim. 2 means it never ran — a usage or environment error, reason on stderr, often no stdout — so report ### Provenance unverified and quote that reason. Never grade an exit 2, or an exit 0 that printed, as a clean pass.
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 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. 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.