Skill Reviewer

Skill Reviewer

Goal: Review skill quality and configured distribution surfaces without modifying repository or external state. Distinguish static contract assurance from observed execution behavior.

Execution contract: The ordered checkboxes are the Definition of Done. Track every item internally as PENDING, PROVEN with concrete evidence, CLEARED with evidence that its condition is absent, or UNPROVEN with a gap; reading, delegation, or tool failure is not proof. Reconcile items after each section. Before returning, resolve all PENDING and count only PROVEN and CLEARED; apply the skill's verdict and approval rules to every gap. Preserve user intent, scope, and existing authorization. Continue authorized work; ask only for consequential unresolved choices or required external approval. Scale depth to material risk without silently skipping checks. Preserve dependency and safety ordering; otherwise choose the verification method appropriate to each obligation.

Tool Routing

Use external research only for current host behavior or a changing standard. Do not use web sources to override the repository's actual files, installed versions, or local validation output.

Tool absence is not itself a skill defect. Apply the documented fallback and use BLOCKED only when the missing capability prevents a reliable verdict.

Checklist

Establish scope and evidence

• Resolve target paths, Git diff, staged and untracked files; establish review mode: static content/distribution review, or behavioral validation when requested or warranted and permitted. Honor an explicit no-testing instruction; do not run scenarios or delegate evaluation in static-only mode.
• Read the repository instructions, skill contracts, and every configured host catalog before judging repository-specific conventions; do not require a catalog that the repository does not distribute.
• Separate primary skills from manifests, catalogs, and documentation affected by the same change.
• Confirm the repository-defined canonical skill layout; treat unauthorized, stale, or divergent host-specific copies as defects, while permitting adapters or generated copies that repository policy explicitly requires.
• Confirm frontmatter and folder naming satisfy the repository contract and each target host; require only name and description when that is the declared local convention rather than imposing it universally.
• Check that each description states the capability, positive trigger, and important near-negative boundary.
• Check that descriptions stay within the host limit and avoid claims broader than the workflow supports.
• Confirm each skill is standalone: no required skill, MCP server, tracker, coordinator, worker, or shared runtime.
• Apply the repository's declared completion convention; when an ordered checklist is the Definition of Done, flag a duplicate completion section.
• Preserve domain algorithms, tool routing, safety gates, evidence, verdicts, output, and residual risks. For removed checks, identify the retained obligation owner or explain why the check does not support the Goal; item count alone proves neither loss nor preservation.
• Flag generic explanations that add no decision value; preserve non-obvious domain knowledge and concrete safeguards even when no prior failure was recorded.
• Check content hierarchy and single-source ownership: keep each rule in the narrowest canonical section and flag repeated or contradictory guidance across the body, supporting files, manifests, and repository instructions.
• Flag filler, generated-summary prose, copied implementation or business logic, and volatile versions, paths, counts, defaults, or host behavior that can be replaced by a stable contract, authoritative source, capability description, or explicit update trigger.
• Verify every required capability has an available tool path, a credible fallback, or an explicit BLOCKED outcome.