fix-frontmatter
Skill23 starsChanged 5 months agoMITView on GitHub
Run the frontmatter validator and fix any SKILL.md that violates the repo's frontmatter contract. Use after editing or adding a SKILL.md.
In this repository16 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- ai-diff-reviewerSkill
- dailybotSkill
- deepworkplanSkill
- shellcheck-fixSkill
- write-bats-testSkill
- deepworkplan-authorSkill
- deepworkplan-createSkill
- deepworkplan-executeSkill
- deepworkplan-onboardSkill
- deepworkplan-refineSkill
- deepworkplan-resumeSkill
- deepworkplanSkill
- deepworkplan-statusSkill
- deepworkplan-upgradeSkill
- deepworkplan-verifySkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 4 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈0
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
4
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 19
After adding or editing any SKILL.md, or when CI's "SKILL.md frontmatter validation" job fails.
- Very specific: line 24
Run python3 scripts/validate-frontmatter.py and read every reported issue.
- Very specific: line 29
ensure --- delimiters and the required keys exist
- Very specific: line 38
Never edit a version: number to make the check pass — fix only quoting or format.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Fix Frontmatter
Goal
Bring every SKILL.md under skills/ back into conformance with the frontmatter
contract that CI enforces, so scripts/validate-frontmatter.py passes.
When to use
After adding or editing any SKILL.md, or when CI's "SKILL.md frontmatter
validation" job fails.
Steps
- Run
python3 scripts/validate-frontmatter.pyand read every reported issue. - For each flagged file, fix the frontmatter:
name:→ kebab-case, starts withdeepworkplan(e.g.deepworkplan-create)version:→ quoted SemVer ("2.8.0")- replace
homepage:withdocumentation_url: - ensure
---delimiters and the required keys exist
- Re-run the validator until it prints
OK: all N SKILL.md file(s) validated.
Validation
python3 scripts/validate-frontmatter.py exits 0.
Notes
Never edit a version: number to make the check pass — fix only quoting or
format. The auto-release.yml bot owns version numbers (AGENTS.md §4). The
validator scans skills/ only; .agents/skills/* is not CI-gated but follows
the same style.
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