Repo Quality System Lifecycle

Use this skill to make a repository legible, safe, and improvable for humans and agents. It is broader than Agent Skill authoring and narrower than product implementation.

When to use

• Setting up Engineering Stewardship in an app, library, CLI/tool, plugin, harness, or meta repo.
• Auditing whether a repo has enough charter, docs, decisions, validation, evidence, and safety metadata for agents to work without hidden local context.
• Designing a repo quality contract before adding harness actions, diagnostics, or automation.
• Separating repo stewardship proof from product runtime correctness.
• Auditing a multi-repo integration chain where one repo must publish, tag, or stabilize before a consumer repo can truthfully cut over.
• Deciding whether repeated repo friction should stay native, become docs/FAQ, become an API/schema/generator, become harness proof, or be deleted/collapsed.
• Auditing broad product claims such as platform support, compatibility, maturity, or "works everywhere" language against live evidence and owner boundaries.
• Running a repository ecology review over plans, specs, docs, skills, schemas, tools, evidence, and validation surfaces to choose explicit dispositions.

When not to use