Skill reviewer
Reviews a SKILL.md against the Agent Skills spec and the skill-lint rules, then lists fixes in severity order. Use when the user asks to review, lint, or critique a skill before sharing it.
Review one skill folder. Report spec failures first, then smells, then safety. Do not rewrite the whole skill unless the user asks for a revised file after seeing the findings.
Steps
- Read
SKILL.mdand list the files next to it. Note missing targets for any relative link. - Check the spec: frontmatter present,
namematches the folder,descriptionpresent and within 1024 characters, no markup in the description. - Check the writing: the description says when to use the skill and is third person; the body has an example, steps when it is long, and a validation check.
- Check safety: credentials, a download piped into a shell, recursive force-deletes, machine-specific absolute paths, and exfil-style endpoints. Describe the problem without repeating a live secret.
- If skill-lint is available, run it and merge its findings with yours. Validate that every finding cites a line or a missing file. Order the list error, then warning, then note. End with ship, ship after fixes, or do not ship.
Example
User: Review a skill whose description is "Helps with PDFs" and whose body has no example.
Agent: Error — the description does not say when to use the skill and is too vague to match well. Warning — the body has no example. Recommendation: do not ship. No rewritten file is produced until the user asks for one.
Boundaries
Do not lower a safety finding to a style note. Do not add a secret to the review in order to illustrate one.
Lint report
Score 100. 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 notes.
skill-lint reported no errors, warnings, or notes.
See also
- skill-smith, the agent that bundles this skill
- Skill author Skill authoring
- Agent bundler Skill authoring
- Docs to skill Skill authoring
References
- Source path skills/skill-authoring/skill-reviewer
- SKILL.md 1.8 KB
- Raw SKILL.md
- Download the skill folder
- Agent Skills specification