skills-audit
Audit .agents/skills SKILL.md files. Use for recurring checks of duplicate, overlapping, stale, inconsistent, or broken skills and merge/delete candidates.
npx skills add lobehub/lobehub --skill skills-audit --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Skills Audit Periodic review of the project-local skill set under `.agents/skills/`. The goal is to catch drift before the catalog becomes confusing — too many skills, overlapping triggers, descriptions that no longer match the body, references to skills that were renamed/deleted. **Recommended cadence:** weekly, or after any week where >1 skill was added/renamed. ## Procedure ### 1 — Inventory Build a fresh census of all SKILL.md files. Do NOT trust any prior cached list. ```bash find -L .agents/skills -name SKILL.md | wc -l # total count, including symlinked skills find -L .agents/skills -name SKILL.md -exec wc -l {} \; | sort -rn # by body length, including symlinked skills ``` Group by domain in a mental table (DB / state / UI / agent / testing / workflow / docs / etc.). Note new arrivals since last audit (`git log --since="1 week ago" -- .agents/skills/`). ### 2 — Pull frontmatter for all skills ```bash # Extract name + description for each SKILL.md for f in .agents/skills/*/SKILL.md; do echo "=== $(basename $(dirname $f)) ===" awk '/^---$/{c++; next} c==1' "$f" | head -20 done ``` Read the description block of every skill. The body can stay unread unless step 4 flags it. ##
- Procedure
- 1 — Inventory
- 2 — Pull frontmatter for all skills
- 3 — Detect overlap / redundancy
- 4 — Description format consistency
- 5 — Stale-skill check
- 6 — Cross-reference integrity
- 7 — Output report
- Output rules
- What NOT to do
- Related history
find -L .agents/skills -name SKILL.md | wc -l # total count, including symlinked skills
find -L .agents/skills -name SKILL.md -exec wc -l {} \; | sort -rn # by body length, including symlinked skills
Extract name + description for each SKILL.md
for f in .agents/skills/*/SKILL.md; do
echo "=== $(basename $(dirname $f)) ==="
awk '/^---$/{c++; next} c==1' "$f" | head -20
done
Confirm the referenced code surface still exists
rg -l "response-compliance|openresponses" packages/ src/ # adjust per skill
git log --since="3 months ago" -- .agents/skills/ < skill > /SKILL.md # is it being maintained?What does the skills-audit skill do?
Audit .agents/skills SKILL.md files. Use for recurring checks of duplicate, overlapping, stale, inconsistent, or broken skills and merge/delete candidates.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add lobehub/lobehub --skill skills-audit --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From lobehub/lobehub, a repository with 81,252 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.