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refactor(create-bestax): derive the skill roster instead of hardcoding it - #541
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…g it scripts/sync-skills.mjs carried a hardcoded SKILLS array. It errored when a listed skill was missing from disk, but never when a skill on disk was missing from the list, so a new skill directory that nobody added to it silently never bundled and nothing noticed. templates/skills is generated at pack time and gitignored, so the omission would first surface in a published tarball. Every directory holding a SKILL.md now bundles. That matches the two consumers that already read the roster rather than listing it, bestax-mcp's sync-skills.mjs and gen-mcp-index.mjs, and it settles the mechanism for what #385 settled as policy, one uniform bundle, because a per-skill carve-out is the kind of thing that drifts. The zero-skills guard runs before the destination is emptied. Reading the roster off disk means a wrong path now yields an empty list rather than an error, and emptying first would ship an empty bundle instead of failing. Refs #540
All three consumers that can derive the roster now read it from disk. What is left is prose, copied by hand into six files and compared against nothing: skills/README.md three times over, the scaffolded CLAUDE_MD roster in create-bestax/src/constants.ts, two docs install blocks, and the table and parenthetical in bulma-ui's README and AGENTS.md, both of which ship inside the npm tarball. skills-roster reads the directory and checks both directions, so a roster that omits a new skill fails, and one still advertising a deleted skill fails too. That second half had no guard anywhere. Each copy is located by its structure rather than by the bare name occurring somewhere in the file. bestax-migrate is the reason: it is also a package, a CLI, and the marker the codemod leaves behind, so it appears in prose in most of these files and a name search would pass on a table that had lost its row. The cost is that reformatting a block breaks its pattern, so every message prints the exact line the check wanted to find. Not to be confused with skills-sync, which despite its name is about the bestax-theming skill's two reference inventories and never reads the roster. The docs sidebar and the intro's bullet roster are deliberately excluded. Both key off page slugs rather than skill directory names, so holding them would amount to requiring a docs page per skill, which is a separate rule. Closes #540
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WalkthroughThe change replaces the ChangesSkill roster conformance
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR changes skill packaging to discover every skill directory and adds bidirectional roster checks. A bounded risk remains because an unrelated --skill example could let future roster drift pass the check; documentation also needs alignment. The change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SkillDirectories
participant syncSkills as sync-skills.mjs
participant SkillDestination
participant ConformanceCheck as skills-roster check
participant RosterSources
SkillDirectories->>syncSkills: discover directories containing SKILL.md
syncSkills->>SkillDestination: copy discovered skills
SkillDirectories->>ConformanceCheck: provide sorted skill names
RosterSources->>ConformanceCheck: provide maintained roster text
ConformanceCheck-->>RosterSources: report missing or stale entries
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The new conformance registry omits the already-stale root README skill roster.
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Pull request overview
Derives shipped skills from disk and adds conformance checks for manually maintained rosters.
Changes:
- Replaces the create-bestax skill allowlist with directory discovery.
- Adds bidirectional roster validation and fixture-based tests.
- Updates contributor guidance for the new bundling policy.
File summaries
| File | Description |
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create-bestax/scripts/sync-skills.mjs |
Discovers and bundles skill directories. |
scripts/check-conformance.mjs |
Adds the skills-roster check. |
scripts/skills-roster.test.mjs |
Tests roster discovery and validation. |
create-bestax/CLAUDE.md |
Documents automatic bundling. |
skills/CLAUDE.md |
Updates skill contribution guidance. |
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In `@create-bestax/CLAUDE.md`:
- Around line 26-28: Update the roster prose to list all six files validated by
SKILL_ROSTERS: skills/README.md, docs/docs/skills/intro.md, src/constants.ts’s
CLAUDE_MD roster, docs/docs/guides/llms/index.md, bulma-ui/README.md, and
bulma-ui/AGENTS.md; do not alter the bundled copy or other files.
In `@scripts/check-conformance.mjs`:
- Around line 1913-1935: Scope the `--skill` regular expressions in the
conformance entries for intro.md and llms/index.md to match only their
designated skills-add roster blocks, preventing commands elsewhere in each file
from satisfying validation. Add a fixture containing a decoy `--skill` command
outside the roster block and ensure conformance still detects missing roster
entries.
In `@skills/CLAUDE.md`:
- Around line 17-24: Revise the prose in the skills roster documentation to
distinguish directory discovery and generated skill bundles from MCP metadata
generation by scripts/gen-mcp-index.mjs, and state that the prose rosters remain
manually maintained and hardcoded. Replace the claims that the roster is only
read and that every discovered skill bundles everywhere, while preserving the
surrounding conformance guidance.
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| prose roster: `skills/README.md`, `docs/docs/skills/intro.md`, and the `CLAUDE_MD` roster in | ||
| `src/constants.ts` must each name every skill. The `skills-roster` conformance check now | ||
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List the complete checked roster set.
This text names three roster files, but SKILL_ROSTERS also validates docs/docs/guides/llms/index.md, bulma-ui/README.md, and bulma-ui/AGENTS.md. List all six files or state that the list is non-exhaustive.
As per coding guidelines, **/CLAUDE.md: “the skills are a shipped product.”
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In `@create-bestax/CLAUDE.md` around lines 26 - 28, Update the roster prose to
list all six files validated by SKILL_ROSTERS: skills/README.md,
docs/docs/skills/intro.md, src/constants.ts’s CLAUDE_MD roster,
docs/docs/guides/llms/index.md, bulma-ui/README.md, and bulma-ui/AGENTS.md; do
not alter the bundled copy or other files.
Source: Coding guidelines
Review found the check passing while the repo's front page disagreed with skills/. README.md's Agent Skills table listed four skills against seven, and line 29 read "all four skills" — the exact drift this check exists to catch, in the most visible place, and absent from SKILL_ROSTERS. Both are fixed and the table is now covered. The prose count is gone rather than corrected; a hardcoded number is what went stale twice. The provenance was overstated in three places. #385 settled ONE skill's case and kept the per-skill rule, in its words "The per-skill-decision rule stays". What it gave is the reasoning this generalises from. Dropping the rule outright is a new decision taken here, and saying so is the difference between citing an issue and laundering a policy change through it. bestax-mcp's header still described create-bestax as carrying a hardcoded SKILLS array and claimed nothing warns when a directory is absent. Both went false with this change, and the new header pointed readers straight at them. Also from review: - The AGENTS.md parenthetical matched any lowercase word, so an Oxford comma would have demanded you delete a skill called "and". It reads comma-delimited items now, the one copy that is not structural. - section() used an unanchored indexOf, so "## AI skills" also matched inside "### AI skills" and the scope would silently move to the wrong block, reporting an intact roster as wholly missing. Line-anchored now, and the terminator derives from the heading's own depth rather than assuming two. - A directory with no SKILL.md, or a name outside kebab-case, now fails with a message that says why. Discovery skipped the first silently, which is the old bug in a new place; the second made the check unsatisfiable, since the line it told you to paste could not match its own pattern. - checkSkillsRoster guards a missing skills/ rather than letting ENOENT take down every other check in the run. - The three identical install-block copies come from one factory. - The comment counted three fenced copies. There are four; the layout tree is fenced too. The conclusion held, the census did not. skillDirViolations is split out for the same reason rosterViolations is: neither new branch fires on the real tree, so only fixtures execute them. Refs #540
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Hidden skill directories bypass conformance, and Oxford-comma rosters produce false missing-skill violations.
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| export async function readSkillDirs(dir = join(REPO, 'skills')) { | ||
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| for (const entry of await readdir(dir, { withFileTypes: true })) { | ||
| if (!entry.isDirectory() || entry.name.startsWith('.')) continue; |
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| // Comma-delimited items, not "any lowercase word". A bare | ||
| // /([a-z][a-z0-9-]*)/g here would read the "and" out of | ||
| // "x, y, and z" and then demand you delete a skill called `and`. | ||
| list: /(?:^|,)\s*([a-z][a-z0-9-]*)\s*(?=,|$)/g, |
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| * The rule exists because `skills/` is a shipped product whose roster is | ||
| * copied by hand into six files that nothing compared against the directory. | ||
| * Every one of those copies agrees today, so none of the violation branches |
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| const v = rosterViolations(SKILLS, withFile('bulma-ui/AGENTS.md', oxford)); | ||
| assert.doesNotMatch(v.join(' '), /names and\b/, 'must not invent "and"'); |
Re-review caught a blind spot this check introduced. readSkillDirs skipped dotted directories; none of the three consumers does. Each takes any directory holding a SKILL.md, so `.draft/SKILL.md` really was bundled and indexed while sitting outside every roster requirement — the silent omission the check exists to end, reintroduced by the check itself. Measured rather than reasoned about: with the fixture in place, sync-skills reported "copied 8 skills". A dotted directory carrying a SKILL.md is now reported; one without is still tooling and still ignored. The Oxford-comma parser did not parse Oxford commas. It skipped the conjunction and the name after it, so "x, y, and z" read as a roster missing z. Serial commas are house style, so that spelling is the likely one, not an edge case. The test hid it by asserting only that no skill called "and" was invented; it now asserts the roster is clean, which is what the fixture was written to show. A name no roster pattern can express is now left out of the roster comparison. It already fails on the name itself, and asking nine prose copies to spell something unspellable buried that one real message under nine noisy ones. The test header stated a file count that was stale on arrival. Removed rather than corrected: SKILL_ROSTERS is the count, and a number in prose is the bug this file exists to prevent. Refs #540
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The core synchronization and empty-source behavior lacks direct automated coverage.
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- The added test suite exercises
readSkillNamesfromcheck-conformance.mjs, not this synchronizer, so the PR's core behavior is still untested: a regression here could stop copying a newly discovered skill or empty the destination on an empty source while all 11 new tests remain green. Please extract/inject the source and destination paths and add a temporary-directory test that runs this copy path for both cases; the repository already runsscripts/*.test.mjsfrom its root test gate.
const skills = (await fs.readdir(skillsSrc, { withFileTypes: true }))
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fs.existsSync(path.join(skillsSrc, entry.name, 'SKILL.md'))
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Fixes from the #541 deep review: - installFence anchored on the first fence containing '--skill ', so a quick-start example above the real block silently became the validated roster, and its opener regex could not parse info strings. Fenced copies now anchor on explicit <!-- skills-roster:… --> markers and are walked with fenceMask. - The Agent Skills table patterns scanned whole files; they now scope to the table under its own '| Skill |' header row, in both directions. - section() was fence-blind: a flush-left '# comment' in a fenced example truncated the scope. It counts headings outside fences now. - The AGENTS.md comma list is split, not pattern-matched: the old regex dropped the last two names without a serial comma. - The 'directory holding a SKILL.md' predicate existed in four copies with three sort comparators (one locale-dependent); all four consumers now import scripts/lib/skills.mjs, and the tests derive the comparison set the same way the check does (rosterSkillNames). - New gates: frontmatter name must equal the directory name (the MCP manifest keys off frontmatter, the rosters off the directory); the docs-site surfaces (per-skill page, sidebars.js entry, intro bullet) are held through the slug transform; install blocks must agree on order (llms/index.md had already drifted — fixed); both sync scripts refuse untracked skill directories, restoring the deleted allowlist's only-vetted-skills guarantee for local builds and manual publishes.
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- create-bestax/CLAUDE.md: restore the duty to keep docs pages that assert bundling (skills/migrate.mdx, skills/intro.md) in agreement if a per-skill opt-out is ever exercised; trim the #540/#385 provenance retelling to a pointer at its canonical home, the sync script header. - skills/CLAUDE.md: same trim, and replace the incorrect claim that the docs-site surfaces cannot be keyed to directory names — they are held through the slug transform now. - bestax-mcp/CLAUDE.md + server.ts comment: stop pointing at the roster census #541 deleted; cite the skills-roster conformance check instead.
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Fixes from the #541 deep review: - installFence anchored on the first fence containing '--skill ', so a quick-start example above the real block silently became the validated roster, and its opener regex could not parse info strings. Fenced copies now anchor on explicit <!-- skills-roster:… --> markers and are walked with fenceMask. - The Agent Skills table patterns scanned whole files; they now scope to the table under its own '| Skill |' header row, in both directions. - section() was fence-blind: a flush-left '# comment' in a fenced example truncated the scope. It counts headings outside fences now. - The AGENTS.md comma list is split, not pattern-matched: the old regex dropped the last two names without a serial comma. - The 'directory holding a SKILL.md' predicate existed in four copies with three sort comparators (one locale-dependent); all four consumers now import scripts/lib/skills.mjs, and the tests derive the comparison set the same way the check does (rosterSkillNames). - New gates: frontmatter name must equal the directory name (the MCP manifest keys off frontmatter, the rosters off the directory); the docs-site surfaces (per-skill page, sidebars.js entry, intro bullet) are held through the slug transform; install blocks must agree on order (llms/index.md had already drifted — fixed); both sync scripts refuse untracked skill directories, restoring the deleted allowlist's only-vetted-skills guarantee for local builds and manual publishes.
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- create-bestax/CLAUDE.md: restore the duty to keep docs pages that assert bundling (skills/migrate.mdx, skills/intro.md) in agreement if a per-skill opt-out is ever exercised; trim the #540/#385 provenance retelling to a pointer at its canonical home, the sync script header. - skills/CLAUDE.md: same trim, and replace the incorrect claim that the docs-site surfaces cannot be keyed to directory names — they are held through the slug transform now. - bestax-mcp/CLAUDE.md + server.ts comment: stop pointing at the roster census #541 deleted; cite the skills-roster conformance check instead.
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Description
skills/is a shipped product, but which skills reached users was decided by a hardcodedSKILLSarray increate-bestax/scripts/sync-skills.mjs. It errored when a listed skill wasmissing from disk and never when a skill on disk was missing from the list, so a new skill
directory that nobody added to it silently never bundled. Because
templates/skillsis generatedat pack time and gitignored, the omission would first have surfaced in a published tarball.
Two changes:
SKILL.mdbundles. Thisbrings
create-bestaxin line with the two consumers that already derived the roster,bestax-mcp/scripts/sync-skills.mjsandscripts/gen-mcp-index.mjs.skills-rosterconformance check holds the prose copies, which cannot be derived, tothe directory in both directions.
@allxsmith/bestax-bulma)create-bestax)@allxsmith/bestax-docs)skills/,scripts/check-conformance.mjsRelated Issue(s)
Closes #540
Refs #385 (settled the policy this settles the mechanism for), #345
Type of Change
This is a policy change, not only a refactor
create-bestax/CLAUDE.mdmade bundling a per-skill decision. After this, every skill bundlesby construction and there is no allowlist to opt into. That follows #385's reasoning ("one uniform
bundle... a per-skill carve-out is exactly the kind of thing that drifts") but goes further than
its checklist, which said the per-skill rule stays. Flagging it explicitly rather than burying it:
if a skill must ever not bundle, the fix is an explicit opt-out in that file, so the omission is a
decision rather than an absence nobody sees.
Two corrections to the issue body
#540 was filed after a survey that got two things wrong, corrected here:
bestax-mcp/data/skills.jsonis committed and gate-checked bygen:mcp:check, so a new orrenamed skill already failed CI there.
docs/sidebars.js,bulma-ui/AGENTS.md,bulma-ui/README.mdanddocs/docs/guides/llms/index.md. The twobulma-uiones ship inside the npm tarball, so a stale roster there is consumer-facing.The check covers six files; see the exclusions below.
What the check does, and what it deliberately does not
Each copy is located by its structure (a table row, a tree entry, an install line) rather than
by the bare skill name occurring anywhere in the file.
bestax-migrateis the reason: it is also apackage, a CLI, and the marker the codemod leaves behind, so it appears in prose in most of these
files and a name search would pass on a table that had lost its row. The cost is that reformatting
a block breaks its pattern, so every message prints the exact line the check wanted to find.
It checks both directions — a roster omitting a new skill fails, and one still advertising a
deleted skill fails. The second half previously had no guard anywhere;
sync-skills.mjsjuststopped copying it.
Deliberately excluded, so it reads as a decision rather than an oversight:
docs/sidebars.jsand the docs intro's bullet roster key off page slugs, not skill directorynames. Holding them would amount to requiring a docs page per skill, which is a separate rule.
--skilllines inbulma-ui/README.mdandAGENTS.mdare examples, not rosters.Their real rosters (a table and a parenthetical) are covered.
skills-syncalready exists and, despite the name, is about the bestax-theming skill's referenceinventories. The new check's header says so, since the two will otherwise be confused.
Verification
pnpm allpasses. Beyond that, each failure branch was exercised rather than assumed:skills/bestax-zzz/SKILL.mdnobody rosteredsync-skills.mjsbundles it with no edit;gen:mcp:checkindependently goes redskills/README.md's table onlybestax-migratestill appears 3 other times in that filebestax-ghostsync-skills.mjsexits 1 before emptying the destinationscripts/skills-roster.test.mjs(11 tests) drives the rule with fixtures, including the fail-openshapes: an unreadable roster file and a renamed anchor both fail rather than being skipped.
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