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Create, Audit, or Consolidate Skills

Create agent skills following the Agent Skills open standard.

• Progressive disclosure: every-branch material inline; branch-specific behind pointers
• References are one level deep (no A → B → C chains)
• Descriptions under 1024 chars; SKILL.md body under 500 lines
• Surgical edits when fixing — don't rewrite unbroken sections
• Map quality issues to failure modes in references/skill-quality.md
• Command descriptions for audit/create/consolidate: scripts/command-metadata.json is the single source of truth

Create path grilling: Create/interview hard-requires Matt Pocock's grilling skill. Full gate + invoke wording live in references/create.md (Phase 1). Audit and consolidate skip the gate unless you actually interview.

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