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holocron/plugins/kyberforge/skills/skill-author/SKILL.md
Defame1297 0f2bb242ad chore(plugins): sync generated content mirrors
Regenerates `plugins/*/skills`, `plugins/*/agents`, both per-plugin `plugin.json` manifests and the
two marketplace mirrors from `.apm/` per ADR-0017, via `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh --all`.

The manifests matter beyond tidiness here: `plugin.json` carries the plugin version and wins over
the marketplace entry at install time (calculatePluginVersion precedence). Until this ran, the patch
bumps in the preceding commit were inert for anyone installing these plugins.

ADR: 0017
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EeH8SCbcrCAQrtymkNuhKP
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---
name: skill-author
description: >
Use when the user wants to create a new skill from scratch, or apply audit
findings, grill output, eval results, or inline feedback to an existing one.
Not read-only review -> `skill-audit`. Not agent files -> `agent-author`.
allowed-tools: Bash Read Write Edit
metadata:
version: "1.0.1"
category: factory
source_keys:
- agentskills-home
- agentskills-spec
- agentskills-best-practices
- agentskills-optimizing-descriptions
- agentskills-evaluating-skills
- agentskills-using-scripts
- agentskills-quickstart
---
## Gotchas
- The word gates are two measurements, not two tiers of one rule: the 2,770-word / 500-line spec backstop counts the whole file, Step 3's gate the body alone. Never unify them.
- Never spawn a subagent to audit or recheck your own work — run `/skill-audit` inline, in the same context as the edits. Clean-context recheck belongs to `/forge`'s outer loop, and a self-spawned subagent's worktree can be torn down by concurrent cleanup, destroying an uncommitted draft.
- Do not create new scripts unless a signal explicitly calls for it. Writing one from scratch requires out-of-scope transcript analysis — flag the opportunity as a suggestion instead.
## Step 1 — Dispatch
| Condition | Flow | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| No skill directory at the target path | Create | `references/create.md` |
| Directory exists, at least one improvement signal present | Improve | `references/improve.md` |
| Directory exists, no signals | Stop and ask | — |
Signals: grill output, `/skill-audit` findings, inline feedback, eval results, session context describing what went wrong. With none, ask whether the user meant to create a new skill or has feedback to apply.
Read only the reference matching the resolved flow — each is self-contained. If the target sits inside a git worktree, capture `rtk git log --oneline -1` before touching the filesystem; Step 4 needs it.
## Step 2 — Invocation axis
Decide before writing any description: model-invoked or hand-invoked?
- **Hand-invoked** — the user types `/name` and no agent should route to it. Set `disable-model-invocation: true` and write one plain human-facing sentence: no trigger list, no boundary clause. Skip Step 3's description rules.
- **Model-invoked** — the default.
## Step 3 — Contract
Before writing or editing a description, or restructuring a body, read `references/contract.md` — the banned-content list, boundary form, include/exclude rubric and body patterns.
Gates `/skill-audit` enforces in both flows:
- **Description** — a trigger clause, at most one capability clause, and a boundary clause shaped `Not <thing> -> <skill-name>` whose target resolves to a real skill or agent. 250 characters SUGGESTION, 400 FAIL, value only.
- **Body** — decision procedure only: ordered steps, branches, gates, and which reference to load when. 600 words SUGGESTION, 900 FAIL, body only. At two or more mutually exclusive flows a dispatch table is mandatory and each flow gets its own self-contained `references/` file.
- **Gotchas** — each contradicting a reasonable default. A Gotcha paraphrasing a step below it is a FAIL; over five entries is a SUGGESTION only.
## Step 4 — Validate and close
Run `/skill-audit` on the resolved skill directory; resolve every FAIL before reporting done. It checks name-to-directory match, placeholders, both size budgets, boundary-target resolution and script hygiene — do not hand-check those. Hand-check the one thing it misses: an empty body reports `PASS SKILL.md body word count 0 (ADR-0020 target: 600)`, so confirm at least one non-empty section exists.
Bump `metadata.version`: the **minor** version on create (new skills start at `0.1.0`) and the **patch** version on improve.
**Commit verification.** Inside a git worktree: once the audit is clean, run `rtk git add` and `rtk git commit` — do not stop at staging. Re-run `rtk git log --oneline -1` and confirm the hash changed from Step 1's. A non-empty `git diff --stat` is not proof: staged-but-uncommitted work is part of no commit and is silently lost if the tree is cleaned up. Report done only once the hash has changed. Outside a worktree (a skill under `~/.claude/skills/`, say) nothing is committable — report done on a clean audit, naming that as the reason.