skill-audit
Skill Audit
Audit a skill before calling it ready. Favor Tessl output, repo conventions, and the skill's actual file shape over taste.
Tessl is the skill-evaluation CLI this repo uses to review skills, score their quality, and suggest improvements. See tessl.io and the CLI docs. If npx tessl ... or tessl ... is unavailable, install or initialize Tessl before running the audit loop.
Principles
- Evidence beats hunches
- Discovery matters: score
nameanddescriptionbefore polishing the body - Keep
SKILL.mdlean; move depth intoreferences/or scripts only when they earn their keep - Prefer the smallest change set that improves activation, clarity, or verification
- Audit only the requested scope; flag adjacent issues separately
Handoffs
- Need to update AGENTS, README, or other repo docs beyond the skill surface -> use
docs - Need to prove a product or code change works on real surfaces -> use
verify - Need to review general code or a PR instead of a skill package -> use
review
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gh-release-pipeline
Set up or align a GitHub Actions release pipeline for a versioned package, library, CLI, or marketplace action. Use when standardizing repos around the verify-then-release shape: push to main → guardrails → semantic-release tags + publishes → version-bump commit back to main with `[skip ci]`. Pairs with `gh-deploy-pipeline` for running apps; use for publishing versioned artifacts to a registry, not deploying a running service.
17gh-deploy-pipeline
Set up or align a GitHub Actions deploy pipeline for an app or service. Use when standardizing repos around the verify-then-deploy shape: push to main → detect affected lanes → verify and build artifacts → e2e → deploy each lane to its host (Cloudflare Pages, AWS Amplify, GHCR + VPS, etc.) with a non-cancellable per-lane concurrency group. Pairs with `gh-release-pipeline` for versioned packages; use for deploying running apps, not publishing artifacts to a registry.
16verify
Self-check your own completed change before handing off to `review` — the pre-review sanity pass. Use when you want to check your work, run checks, validate changes, make sure a change is ready, test it end-to-end, run repo guardrails (lint, typecheck, tests, build), exercise the real surface with evidence, and catch obvious self-correctable issues. Produces a `ready for review` / `needs more work` / `blocked` verdict — never a ship decision. If the repo cannot be booted or exercised reliably, hand off to `agent-readiness`. If auditing someone else's diff, branch, or PR, use `review` instead.
13review
Independently audit existing code, diffs, branches, or pull requests using concern-specific reviewer personas and evidence. Use when triaging risk in a PR, deciding whether a change is safe to ship, or following up on a `verify` pass to make the call the builder cannot make on their own work. Produces a `ship it` / `needs review` / `blocked` verdict. Do not use to self-check a change you just authored; use `verify` for that.
13agent-readiness
Audit and build the infrastructure a repo needs so agents can work autonomously — boot scripts, smoke tests, CI/CD gates, dev environment setup, observability, and isolation. Use when a repo can't boot, tests are broken or missing, there's no dev environment, agents can't verify their work, or agents need human help to get anything done. Do not use for reviewing an existing diff or for documentation-only cleanup.
13docs
Update repo documentation and agent-facing guidance such as AGENTS.md, README.md, docs/, specs, plans, and runbooks. Use when code, skill, or infrastructure changes risk doc drift or when documentation needs cleanup or restructuring. Do not use for code review, runtime verification, or `agent-readiness` setup.
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