repo2skill

The key words MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT and MAY in this skill are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 (RFC 2119, RFC 8174) when, and only when, they appear in all capitals.

The authoring skill this repo's quality gates were vendored from. It turns "I want a new Agent Skill" into a directory that passes make gate-skill — by scaffolding a skeleton that is already green, guiding the real authoring over it, and finishing with the semantic review that mechanical gates cannot perform. Author under gate cover: start green, stay green, and let every red check tell you exactly what to fix.

Locating this skill's helpers (do this first). The steps below run bundled scripts. You execute from the target repo, not from this skill's directory, so a path written relative to this skill will not resolve. Resolve the base directory once and use it everywhere — including in any subagent prompt, which MUST receive the literal absolute path: