/skill-lint

name: skill-lint
user-invocable: false
version: 1.0.0
metadata:
  internal: true
description: >
  Internal agentic-workflow maintenance: after SKILL.md edits, lint the repo's
  authoring rules and the machine-surface registration rules. Triggers:
  "lint the skill", "skill authoring check", "check the skill rules".

Turn contract — verify before ending the turn

✓ The lint results (all 7 authoring rules, including the two machine-surface
  parity/ordering checks and the internal-skill discovery-exclusion check)
  were reported
✓ Every violation was reported to the user, none silently repaired
✓ The git add + commit command block is printed as the ABSOLUTE last output

About to end the turn with any box unchecked? The turn is NOT done — complete the missing box first.

When to use

After any edit to one or more `skills/<name>/SKILL.md` files in this repo, before committing. The skill is **lint-only**: it reports, never repairs, and it bumps nothing — skills carry the unified train version, stamped by `scripts/release.mjs apply` at cut time (D-40-14), and a skill change ships via a `.changeset/` intent file.

Step 0 — Orientation

This skill is **specific to the `agentic-workflow` repository**. Before doing anything, confirm you are in that repo (presence of `skills/` + `CHANGELOG.md`). If not, stop and tell the user.

Process

1. Lint, warn, never repair

Check all seven `AGENTS.md` invariants per [change discovery and authoring lint](references/DISCOVERY_AND_LINT.md). Report every violation without fixing it.

2. Print a summary and the next step

Paste the lint results, then print the next step:

> Lint reported. Stage and commit: > ``` > git add skills/<name>/SKILL.md .changeset/ > git commit -m "<type>(skills): <one-line reason>" > ``` > A skill change must ship with a `.changeset/*.md` intent file declaring the > Pi package — `scripts/lint-changeset.mjs` lints it and the version-parity > gate enforces it.

Guardrails

• **Never change anything in a SKILL.md** — this skill reports; the writer is

you, the editor, and the version stamper is `scripts/release.mjs apply`.

• **Never commit or push** — this skill only lints and reports.
• If a skill file is not tracked by git (new file not yet added), say so in

the report — the change-discovery step cannot see it.

Portability (agents other than Claude Code)

This skill is repo-maintenance for `agentic-workflow` itself, but the repo may be worked on from any agent:

• **No slash-command menu** — follow this `SKILL.md` directly after editing any

skill, before committing.

• **No per-skill `model:`/`effort:`** — a mid-tier model is enough; this is

classification + lint bookkeeping.

Relationship to other skills

• Run after any manual edit to a skill or after `execute-phase` touches a

skill file, and before the commit.

• `AGENTS.md` section "One version: the unified train" is the policy this

skill lints against.

• The version-parity gate (`scripts/version-parity-gate.mjs`) is the CI half:

a skills change must ship with a `.changeset/` intent file (or a package bump + companion row).

• Renames and other breaking surfaces feed `docs/workflow/MIGRATION.md`,

which `init-workspace` reads when installing.

Done when

• All seven authoring-rule violations (missing `→ Next:` block, `S1`/"Step"

phase labels, a `user-invocable: true` skill absent from `plugin.json`, a non-alphabetical machine surface, …) are reported for the user to fix before committing.

• **The next step is printed** — the `git add` + `git commit` command, ready

to run.