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skill-scout

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Run the skill-scout loop — scan the next batch of unscanned JVM-conference rosters for speaker-created AI skills and apply results to the CSV store via the overnight Workflow. Use when the user says "run skill-scout", "continue the skill-scout loop", "scan more conferences", or wants to grow the skill candidate list.

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How to use this skill

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/jvm-skills/jvm-skills/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/skill-scout/SKILL.md

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Run skill-scout

Launch the skill-scout loop over the unscanned conference queue. Full design + pipeline: skill-scout/README.md. Invoking this skill is the explicit opt-in to run the Workflow.

Steps

  1. Today's date. Use the real current date as YYYY-MM-DD (it stamps the CSVs — never hardcode).

  2. Check the queue.

    python3 skill-scout/harness/queue.py | python3 -c "import json,sys; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(len(d['confs']),'unscanned'); [print(' ',c['slug']) for c in d['confs'][:30]]"

    If 0 unscanned: the queue is empty — tell the user to append fresh JVM/Kotlin conferences (2024–26) to skill-scout/db/conferences.csv, or stop. Do not fabricate conferences.

  3. Launch the Workflow (one batch, self-committing):

    Workflow({
  scriptPath: "skill-scout/harness/overnight.workflow.js",
  args: { limit: 25, today: "<today>", autoCommit: true }
})
    • limit: 25 covers a full batch (the tested size); pass a smaller limit for a quick run.
    • autoCommit: true makes ONE scoped commit at the end (only skill-scout/db, candidates.md, review.html, rules/*.md; aborts if anything else is staged). Omit it if the user wants to review review.html before committing.
    • It runs in the background; a task-notification fires on completion.

  4. On completion, report the delta from the result JSON: found / needs_review / bundles, the per-conf validation (must be PASS), and browserNeeded (confs whose roster needed the agent-browser fallback and may warrant a re-run). Then point the user at skill-scout/review.html — the human reviews it and promotes rows into skills/*.yaml (see top-level CONTRIBUTING.md).

Options (pass in args when asked)

WantArg
Higher-rigor adversarial recheckrecheckModel: "opus" (slower/pricier; delete stale harness/recheck_*.json first — the cache is model-blind)
Dry run (no CSV writes)dryApply: true
Specific conference(s) onlyslugs: ["<slug>", …]
Re-judge from cached scans (no re-scan)evalOnly: [{slug,name,url}, …]

Notes

  • One conference is the unit of work; the db/*.csv files are the state. A relaunch resumes cheaply from the per-conf caches in harness/ (gitignored), so an interrupted run is safe to re-launch.
  • A full-queue run is long (serial GitHub scan, ~15 min/conf) — it's meant to run AFK. Monitor with /workflows; serial phases self-recover from GitHub rate-limiting.