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name: project-skill-maintenance description: Maintenance procedures for contributing and managing skills within the agent-skills-standard repository — metadata versioning, mirror generation, and release quality gates. For general skill authoring standards, see common-skill-creator. metadata: internal: true labels: [repository, maintenance, metadata, contribution, release-workflow] triggers: files: - 'skills/metadata.json' - '.skillsrc' keywords: - repo skill maintenance - update skills metadata - bump category version - sync skill mirrors - release skills standard

Repository Skill Maintenance Standard

Priority: P1 (HIGH)

Project-local maintenance procedures for contributing to agent-skills-standard.

Generic Skill Authoring: Follow the canonical common-skill-creator standard; this local skill covers repository maintenance only.

Repository Contribution Workflow

1. Canonical Authoring:
   • Add or edit skills in canonical skills/<category>/<skill-name>/.
   • Never hand-edit generated agent mirrors in .agents/, .claude/, .codex/, or .github/.
2. Metadata Versioning (skills/metadata.json):
   • When modifying skills/<category>/**, bump categories.<category>.version (patch increment for bugfixes/modernization) and update last_updated date (YYYY-MM-DD).
   • When modifying .agents/workflows/**, bump releases.workflows.version.
3. Mirror Synchronization:
   • Run pnpm generate-indices once to propagate canonical skills, workflows, and specialists into native agent directories.
4. Validation Quality Gates:
   • Run pnpm validate:all (structure, format, injection scan).
   • Run pnpm audit:sdlc and pnpm audit:skills.
   • Run pnpm check-alignment.
5. Changelog & Release:
   • Record user-facing changes under [Unreleased] in CHANGELOG.md.
   • Use release scripts: pnpm release-cli, pnpm release-all-skills, pnpm release:manifest.

Canonical Authoring References

• Skill template
• Skill lifecycle
• Resource organization