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skill-governance-loop

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Use when the user asks to review a skill, analyze skill quality, update a skill version, or run a repeatable keep/disable/archive decision loop from real failures instead of abstract best practices.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook/blob/HEAD/skills/full/skill-governance-loop/SKILL.md

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Skill Governance Loop

Overview

Use this skill for evidence-based governance of one skill or a small target set. It starts from a concrete problem, audits the skill, and ends with an explicit keep, disable, merge, split, or archive decision.

Rules

  • Start from a concrete case such as poor triggering, overlap, bloat, or a version update request.
  • Produce three outputs every time: the case, the audit, and the decision.
  • Separate static quality from observed usefulness; a pretty skill is not automatically a useful skill.
  • Use inventory tooling first when the scope is broad enough to need filesystem evidence.
  • Record the next hypothesis so the next governance pass has a sharper starting point.

When to Use

Use when:

  • the user asks to review a skill, analyze skill quality, or update a skill version
  • a skill may need to be kept, disabled, merged, split, archived, or moved
  • the user wants a repeatable governance loop instead of one-off edits

Do not use when:

  • the task is broad inventory scanning of many skills at once
  • the work is simple skill authoring with no governance decision
  • the request is only to discover whether a skill exists