Skills

New Skill

Scaffold a new brooks-lint analysis skill so it passes `npm run validate` and `npm run...

Install

npx skills add hyhmrright/brooks-lint --skill new-skill -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Engineering
Updated
9d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Lightabout 510 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Scaffold a new brooks-lint analysis skill so it passes `npm run validate` and `npm run evals` on the first try, generates skills/{name}/SKILL.md (with the mandatory "Do NOT trigger for:" clause and a Process section citing guide step ranges) plus skills/{name}/{name}-guide.md (sequentially numbered steps), then appends paired eval scenarios. Triggers when the maintainer asks to "add a new skill", "scaffold a skill", or "create a brooks-lint mode". Do NOT trigger for: editing an existing skill's content, adding a single eval to an existing skill, or authoring skills for some other plugin.

brooks-lint, New Skill Scaffold

Skill name comes from the user request (kebab-case, e.g. brooks-security). If empty, ask for the name and a one-line purpose first.

Follow the repo's "Adding a New Skill" checklist exactly:

  1. Create skills/{name}/SKILL.md with frontmatter, name, a description that ends with a Do NOT trigger for: clause (validate-enforced for shipped skills; omitting it causes false triggering), metadata: with opencode/slash: "true", and a Process section of 3, 6 bullets that cite the guide's step ranges inline (e.g. Scan risks (Steps 1, 6 of the guide)). Mirror the structure of an existing skill such as skills/brooks-review/SKILL.md (Setup → Process → Mode line).
  2. Create skills/{name}/{name}-guide.md with sequentially numbered steps, no gaps, no duplicates. Sub-steps like Step 2a are allowed. The guide owns the detailed steps; the SKILL.md Process is just an orientation skeleton.
  3. Wire the framework. The new SKILL.md Setup section must Read the relevant _shared/ files (common.md for Iron Law + Report Template, plus decay-risks.md / test-decay-risks.md as applicable), _shared/ is NOT auto-loaded.
  4. Add eval coverage to evals/evals.json: append with the next sequential id at least one happy-path scenario (with the relevant risk code in expected_output) and at least one false-positive scenario flagged no_risk_codes: true. Each scenario needs id, name, prompt, expected_output, mode, files.
  5. Validate. npm run validate (structure + step continuity + Process-section presence) and npm run evals (eval schema). Fix until both pass.
  6. Local-test. Link the new skill folder from skills/ into .agents/skills/ alongside the _shared symlink, then invoke it with $<skill-name> in a Codex session and verify the Iron Law output.
Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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