New tests/skills/test_authoring_standards.py parametrizes every bundled +
optional SKILL.md (1148 checks) against the mechanically-verifiable subset
of the hardline standards:
- required frontmatter fields (name/description/version/author/license/
platforms) + tags
- frontmatter name == directory name
- description <= 60 chars, ends with period, no marketing words
- related_skills resolve in-repo
- no machine-local paths
- <= 100k chars
Grandfather dict for legacy debt ships EMPTY — all pre-existing violations
fixed in this PR:
- 13 frontmatter names canonicalized to their directory names (the install
identifier); all related_skills references updated (comfyui -> stable-
diffusion). Fixes the class behind PR #42788's report; also fixes
here.now's invalid dot-name.
- optional-skills/devops/cli -> inference-sh-cli (dir was the generic
'cli'; fm name was right) incl. docs pages (en + zh-Hans), catalog row,
sidebar entry.
- pytorch-fsdp: 157k generated 'Quick Reference' dump moved to
references/common-patterns.md; SKILL.md 159k -> 2.5k with a pointer.
- research-paper-writing: 31.7k Phase 5 drafting section moved to
references/phase5-paper-drafting.md; SKILL.md 103k -> 71k.
Docs regenerated with scope discipline.
Every SKILL.md description over 60 chars was silently truncated to
57 chars + '...' in the system-prompt skill index
(extract_skill_description, agent/skill_utils.py), destroying the
routing signal for 69 of 179 skills — some descriptions ran to
1,005 chars.
Rewrites follow the authoring standard: <=60 chars, one sentence,
ends with a period, trigger front-loaded, no marketing words, no
skill-name repetition. Excess detail already lives in each skill's
body.
Includes the touchdesigner-mcp trim from PR #32361 (credit:
@JeliTron) and aligns with the router-precision direction of PR
#48780 (@John-Lussier). Docs catalogs + per-skill pages regenerated
via website/scripts/generate-skill-docs.py.
Co-authored-by: JeliTron <287797501+JeliTron@users.noreply.github.com>
Extends the Windows-gating work to the optional-skills/ tree. Every
SKILL.md that previously omitted the platforms: field now carries an
explicit declaration, which Hermes's loader (agent.skill_utils.
skill_matches_platform) honors to skip-load on incompatible OSes.
58 skills declared cross-platform (platforms: [linux, macos, windows]):
autonomous-ai-agents/blackbox, autonomous-ai-agents/honcho
blockchain/base, blockchain/solana
communication/one-three-one-rule
creative/blender-mcp, creative/concept-diagrams, creative/hyperframes,
creative/kanban-video-orchestrator, creative/meme-generation
devops/cli (inference-sh-cli), devops/docker-management
dogfood/adversarial-ux-test
email/agentmail
finance/3-statement-model, finance/comps-analysis, finance/dcf-model,
finance/excel-author, finance/lbo-model, finance/merger-model,
finance/pptx-author
health/fitness-nutrition, health/neuroskill-bci
mcp/fastmcp, mcp/mcporter
migration/openclaw-migration
mlops/accelerate, mlops/chroma, mlops/clip, mlops/guidance,
mlops/hermes-atropos-environments, mlops/huggingface-tokenizers,
mlops/instructor, mlops/lambda-labs, mlops/llava, mlops/modal,
mlops/peft, mlops/pinecone, mlops/pytorch-lightning, mlops/qdrant,
mlops/saelens, mlops/simpo, mlops/stable-diffusion
productivity/canvas, productivity/shop-app, productivity/shopify,
productivity/siyuan, productivity/telephony
research/domain-intel, research/drug-discovery, research/duckduckgo-search,
research/gitnexus-explorer, research/parallel-cli, research/scrapling
security/1password, security/oss-forensics, security/sherlock
web-development/page-agent
5 skills gated from Windows (platforms: [linux, macos]):
mlops/flash-attention - Flash Attention wheels are Linux-first; Windows
install requires building from source with CUDA
mlops/faiss - faiss-gpu has no Windows wheel; gate rather than
leak partial (faiss-cpu) support
mlops/nemo-curator - NVIDIA NeMo ecosystem has no first-class Windows path
mlops/slime - Megatron+SGLang RL stack is Linux-only in practice
mlops/whisper - openai-whisper + ffmpeg setup on Windows is
non-trivial; gate until Windows install stanza lands
Methodology: scanned every SKILL.md for Windows-hostile signals
(apt-get, brew, systemd, osascript, ptrace, X11 binaries, POSIX-only
Python APIs, Docker POSIX $(pwd) bind-mounts, explicit 'linux-only' /
'macos-only' text). 3 skills flagged as having hard signals on review:
docker-management and qdrant only had POSIX $(pwd) docker examples and
the tools themselves (Docker Desktop, Qdrant) run fine on Windows —
declared ALL. whisper had an apt/brew ffmpeg install path and nothing
else but the openai-whisper Windows install story is rough enough to
warrant gating.
Strict-over-lenient policy: when in doubt, gate. Easier to un-gate after
verified Windows support lands than to leak partial support that
manifests as mid-task failures for Windows users.