Skill Conductor

Full lifecycle management for agent skills: draft → test → review → improve → repeat.

One skill to rule them all — from architecture to packaging. The core loop is always the same: write something, test it, see what fails, fix it, test again.

Runtime requirements (pre-flight)

Before any mode that touches scripts (CREATE, IMPROVE, VALIDATE, OPTIMIZE, PACKAGE), run the pre-flight block → references/runtime-setup.md (checks uv, sets UV_BIN/SKILL_CONDUCTOR_DIR, verifies LLM access). If uv is absent, stop and tell the user.

How to communicate

Read context cues. If the user is a skill author iterating on their own work, be direct and technical. If they're new to skills, explain the why behind each step — not just what to do, but why it matters. Default to conversational, not robotic.

• Explain trade-offs when there's a real choice to make
• Use concrete examples over abstract rules
• When something fails, explain the root cause, not just the fix
• Imperative voice in instructions: "Extract the data", not "You should extract"