# skill-factory

Build, update, and standardize agent skills with checks, tests, evals, and a Mise task graph. Use it when a workflow needs a reusable skill package.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 681 installs · ★ 2
- Author: Kiren Srinivasan
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/srinitude/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/skill-factory/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/skill-factory

## What it does

\`skill-factory` turns a workflow or capability into a standalone agent skill, or changes an existing one while keeping its intended purpose. Its package can contain instructions, references, assets, scripts, tests, examples, CI, eval files, and a Mise task graph where the workflow calls for them.

The skill handles `new`, `update`, `standardize`, `import`, `variant`, `validate`, `eval`, `doctor`, and `help`. It first frames the requested operation, checks runner readiness with `mise run doctor`, applies the relevant research and task policies, then uses tests to guide changes through BOOTSTRAP, RED, GREEN, and REFACTOR. An unrecognized command or a missing required fact stops the run instead of being guessed.

Mise is part of the required setup because the workflow explicitly runs `mise run doctor` and other Mise tasks. A project without a ready Mise environment will fail the readiness stage.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill skill-factory -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/skill-factory/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/skill-factory/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill skill-factory -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/skill-factory/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill skill-factory -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/skill-factory/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install srinitude/skills skill-factory
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/skill-factory/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill skill-factory -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/srinitude/skills --path skills/skill-factory
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/skill-factory/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill skill-factory -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/srinitude/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/skill-factory/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a new agent skill from a workflow brief
- update an existing skill while preserving its purpose
- standardize a skill package without replacing its domain behavior
- run structure, writing, code, and placeholder checks

## Example prompts
- Create a new skill for checking database migrations and prepare it for evaluation.
- Update the skill at `skills/release` while preserving its purpose and standardizing its structure.
- Validate the skill at `skills/release`, then run its eval cases.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: skill-factory
description: "Use when a workflow or capability must become a new agent skill, when an existing skill must be updated or standardized without losing its purpose, when a user-level or project-level variant is needed, or when a skill needs validation, evaluation, scaffolding, scripts, tests, or a Mise task graph."
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Kiren Srinivasan
  version: "0.5.1"
  scope: "user"
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# skill-factory

skill-factory creates, updates, and standardizes working agent skills. It preserves the requested purpose while producing a portable directory whose instructions, references, assets, scripts, tests, Mise graph, CI, examples, and evals pass fresh checks.

## Outcome and motivation

The outcome is a skill that produces the intended user-visible result and can prove it. Package shape is necessary evidence, never the result by itself. State the reason behind every material constraint so the executor can adapt inside the allowed boundary without defeating the outcome. Keep deterministic mechanics out of prose so model attention stays on semantics, judgment, creative work, and exceptions.

## Simplicity and language

Keep this factory and every output as the smallest coherent structure that preserves the outcome, proof, boundaries, forbidden outcomes, and mandatory methods, plus accepted behavior. Simple means easy to reason about: one canonical owner per rule, one stable term per concept, one default path per job, and one explicit failure branch for each material unknown. Remove duplicate rules, decorative structure, needless indirection, and choices that do not change behavior. Never hide essential domain complexity or weaken a rule to reduce lines.

Set a context budget for each operation before loading support. Keep the always-loaded body as the smallest domain-complete decision path. At each branch, load only the canonical owner needed for the current decision, record or verify its content digest, reuse current verified receipts, and reread only after owner change or uncertainty. Token efficiency fails if it removes a domain motive, constraint, interface, failure branch, proof duty, model-owned capability, or the context needed for intelligent and thoughtful adaptation.

Use plain and direct language. Load [the writing rules](references/writing-rules.md) through `mise run lint-writing` for this factory and every skill it creates, updates, standardizes, or imports. Put the result first, use active verbs, keep one idea per sentence and one topic per paragraph, and place instructions in execution order. Mechanical lint finds bounded text faults. A same-meaning human review decides whether the package is simpler and still complete.

## Evidence and source order
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