Claude Code's (and Copilot's) native plugin installer has zero awareness of .apm/ nesting -- it convention-scans only flat skills/, agents/, commands/, hooks.json at each plugin's root. Confirmed via strings on the installed claude binary and live installs of git@holocron/gitea@holocron/kyberforge@ holocron, all reporting Skills(0) Agents(0) Hooks(0) post ADR-0015's apm conversion. Root cause (apm_cli/core/plugin_manifest.py): apm's plugin.json compiler deliberately strips skills/agents/commands keys, assuming the host already auto-discovers those convention directories -- it has no model of .apm/ being host-visible at all. Separately, apm's own bundle exporter (apm_cli/bundle/plugin_exporter.py, behind `apm pack --format plugin`) implements the correct .apm/ -> flat mapping, but only ever targeted build/<name>-<version>/, a path nothing in marketplace.json's source: points at. scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh wraps that bundle exporter and copies its agents/, skills/, commands/, instructions/, extensions/, and merged hooks.json back into each plugin's own root as a second tracked compiled-output category -- same governance status as .claude-plugin/plugin.json: generated from .apm/, never hand-edited. tests/ subdirectories are excluded from the mirror (dev fixtures, not host-visible runtime content; several hardcode a relative repo-root walk-up sized for the .apm/-nested depth, which breaks when duplicated one level shallower). Applied for real across all 6 plugins and verified two ways: `claude plugin validate --strict` passes on every real plugin directory, and a live `claude --plugin-dir <path> -p "list skills/agents"` behavioral test confirms content is now actually discovered. Also, from the same issue #90 review round: - scripts/check-manifests.sh pointed at each plugin's root-level plugin.json (checking skills/hooks/mcpServers/agents pointer fields) -- that file was a stale near-duplicate of .claude-plugin/plugin.json nothing else read or wrote, now deleted across all 6 plugins. check-manifests.sh is rewritten to validate .claude-plugin/plugin.json instead, and drops the pointer-field checks entirely (nothing to check -- those fields are correctly absent by design). Content-presence drift is now check-plugin-content-sync's job, a new pre-push hook wired in .pre-commit-config.yaml. docs/adr/0017 records the root cause and decision in full, including two rejected alternatives (patching plugin.json's path fields directly -- apm's compiler strips them on every run; pointing marketplace.json at apm pack's build/ output -- a version-suffixed non-source directory nothing can install from without an extra build step). ADR-0015 and CONTEXT.md are updated to point at it. Refs: #90
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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, plusscripts/vale-wrap.sh— a Vale prefilter that deterministically flags known-bad description openers, vague wording, padding phrases, and "There is/are" sentence openers - 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 |
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/DescriptionOpener.yml |
Vale rule — flags literal "This skill..."/"This agent..." 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 |
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 |