Curating a skill catalog

A skill census judges whether each skill in a catalog still earns its place — not whether its prose is well-written (that's nomination-time content review), but whether the catalog as a whole is the right shape. Every verdict short of Keep must survive an attempt to refute it, on evidence you can quote.

When to use

• Running a periodic census cycle over a skill catalog.
• Reviewing someone else's census output before it reaches the human editor.
• Triaging gap:, placement:, revise:, promotion-candidate:, or demotion-candidate: issues.
• Deciding whether a specific skill should be deprecated, promoted, split, or merged.
• Auditing catalog health (drift, dead skills, missing coverage) outside a formal cycle.

When NOT to use