Skill Lifecycle Foundry

The agent-skill lifecycle is a loop: you mine real usage for repeated workflows, author those into SKILL.md files, personalize them to the local user's tools and phrasing, generalizing them for public release, and keep them honest through a validation gate. This is the meta-skill that governs that whole loop. It governs the other skills in your inventory, not a single task — it tells you how to discover, write, tune, and ship them safely.

It ships one small, optional executable — scripts/scan_sessions.py — a deterministic first-pass miner for the mining step. It is stdlib-only and safe to run on any archive; the rest of the skill is procedure and templates, because session layouts vary too much for a bigger script to be trustworthy.

When to Use

Use this skill when you want to: