@chankov/agent-skills 0.3.2 → 0.3.3

package/.versions/0.3.3/skills/using-agent-skills/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: using-agent-skills
+description: Discovers and invokes agent skills. Use when starting a session or when you need to discover which skill applies to the current task. This is the meta-skill that governs how all other skills are discovered and invoked.
+---
+
+# Using Agent Skills
+
+## Overview
+
+Agent Skills is a collection of engineering workflow skills organized by development phase. Each skill encodes a specific process that senior engineers follow. This meta-skill helps you discover and apply the right skill for your current task.
+
+## Skill Discovery
+
+When a task arrives, identify the development phase and apply the corresponding skill:
+
+```
+Task arrives
+    │
+    ├── Vague idea/need refinement? ──→ idea-refine
+    ├── New project/feature/change? ──→ spec-driven-development
+    ├── Have a spec, need tasks? ──────→ planning-and-task-breakdown
+    ├── Implementing code? ────────────→ incremental-implementation
+    │   ├── UI work? ─────────────────→ frontend-ui-engineering
+    │   ├── API work? ────────────────→ api-and-interface-design
+    │   ├── Need better context? ─────→ context-engineering
+    │   └── Need doc-verified code? ───→ source-driven-development
+    ├── Writing/running tests? ────────→ test-driven-development
+    │   └── Browser-based? ───────────→ browser-testing-with-devtools
+    ├── Something broke? ──────────────→ debugging-and-error-recovery
+    ├── Reviewing code? ───────────────→ code-review-and-quality
+    │   ├── Security concerns? ───────→ security-and-hardening
+    │   └── Performance concerns? ────→ performance-optimization
+    ├── Committing/branching? ─────────→ git-workflow-and-versioning
+    ├── CI/CD pipeline work? ──────────→ ci-cd-and-automation
+    ├── Writing docs/ADRs? ───────────→ documentation-and-adrs
+    ├── Authoring a new skill/persona? ─→ designing-agents
+    └── Deploying/launching? ─────────→ shipping-and-launch
+```
+
+## Core Operating Behaviors
+
+These behaviors apply at all times, across all skills. They are non-negotiable.
+
+### 1. Surface Assumptions
+
+Before implementing anything non-trivial, explicitly state your assumptions:
+
+```
+ASSUMPTIONS I'M MAKING:
+1. [assumption about requirements]
+2. [assumption about architecture]
+3. [assumption about scope]
+→ Correct me now or I'll proceed with these.
+```
+
+Don't silently fill in ambiguous requirements. The most common failure mode is making wrong assumptions and running with them unchecked. Surface uncertainty early — it's cheaper than rework.
+
+### 2. Manage Confusion Actively
+
+When you encounter inconsistencies, conflicting requirements, or unclear specifications:
+
+1. **STOP.** Do not proceed with a guess.
+2. Name the specific confusion.
+3. Present the tradeoff or ask the clarifying question.
+4. Wait for resolution before continuing.
+
+**Bad:** Silently picking one interpretation and hoping it's right.
+**Good:** "I see X in the spec but Y in the existing code. Which takes precedence?"
+
+### 3. Push Back When Warranted
+
+You are not a yes-machine. When an approach has clear problems:
+
+- Point out the issue directly
+- Explain the concrete downside (quantify when possible — "this adds ~200ms latency" not "this might be slower")
+- Propose an alternative
+- Accept the human's decision if they override with full information
+
+Sycophancy is a failure mode. "Of course!" followed by implementing a bad idea helps no one. Honest technical disagreement is more valuable than false agreement.
+
+### 4. Enforce Simplicity
+
+Your natural tendency is to overcomplicate. Actively resist it.
+
+Before finishing any implementation, ask:
+- Can this be done in fewer lines?
+- Are these abstractions earning their complexity?
+- Would a staff engineer look at this and say "why didn't you just..."?
+
+If you build 1000 lines and 100 would suffice, you have failed. Prefer the boring, obvious solution. Cleverness is expensive.
+
+### 5. Maintain Scope Discipline
+
+Touch only what you're asked to touch.
+
+Do NOT:
+- Remove comments you don't understand
+- "Clean up" code orthogonal to the task
+- Refactor adjacent systems as a side effect
+- Delete code that seems unused without explicit approval
+- Add features not in the spec because they "seem useful"
+
+Your job is surgical precision, not unsolicited renovation.
+
+### 6. Verify, Don't Assume
+
+Every skill includes a verification step. A task is not complete until verification passes. "Seems right" is never sufficient — there must be evidence (passing tests, build output, runtime data).
+
+## Failure Modes to Avoid
+
+These are the subtle errors that look like productivity but create problems:
+
+1. Making wrong assumptions without checking
+2. Not managing your own confusion — plowing ahead when lost
+3. Not surfacing inconsistencies you notice
+4. Not presenting tradeoffs on non-obvious decisions
+5. Being sycophantic ("Of course!") to approaches with clear problems
+6. Overcomplicating code and APIs
+7. Modifying code or comments orthogonal to the task
+8. Removing things you don't fully understand
+9. Building without a spec because "it's obvious"
+10. Skipping verification because "it looks right"
+
+## Skill Rules
+
+1. **Check for an applicable skill before starting work.** Skills encode processes that prevent common mistakes.
+
+2. **Skills are workflows, not suggestions.** Follow the steps in order. Don't skip verification steps.
+
+3. **Multiple skills can apply.** A feature implementation might involve `idea-refine` → `spec-driven-development` → `planning-and-task-breakdown` → `incremental-implementation` → `test-driven-development` → `code-review-and-quality` → `shipping-and-launch` in sequence.
+
+4. **When in doubt, start with a spec.** If the task is non-trivial and there's no spec, begin with `spec-driven-development`.
+
+## Lifecycle Sequence
+
+For a complete feature, the typical skill sequence is:
+
+```
+1. idea-refine                 → Refine vague ideas
+2. spec-driven-development     → Define what we're building
+3. planning-and-task-breakdown → Break into verifiable chunks
+4. context-engineering         → Load the right context
+5. source-driven-development   → Verify against official docs
+6. incremental-implementation  → Build slice by slice
+7. test-driven-development     → Prove each slice works
+8. code-review-and-quality     → Review before merge
+9. git-workflow-and-versioning → Clean commit history
+10. documentation-and-adrs     → Document decisions
+11. shipping-and-launch        → Deploy safely
+```
+
+Not every task needs every skill. A bug fix might only need: `debugging-and-error-recovery` → `test-driven-development` → `code-review-and-quality`.
+
+## Quick Reference
+
+| Phase | Skill | One-Line Summary |
+|-------|-------|-----------------|
+| Define | idea-refine | Refine ideas through structured divergent and convergent thinking |
+| Define | spec-driven-development | Requirements and acceptance criteria before code |
+| Plan | planning-and-task-breakdown | Decompose into small, verifiable tasks |
+| Build | incremental-implementation | Thin vertical slices, test each before expanding |
+| Build | source-driven-development | Verify against official docs before implementing |
+| Build | context-engineering | Right context at the right time |
+| Build | frontend-ui-engineering | Production-quality UI with accessibility |
+| Build | api-and-interface-design | Stable interfaces with clear contracts |
+| Verify | test-driven-development | Failing test first, then make it pass |
+| Verify | browser-testing-with-devtools | Chrome DevTools MCP for runtime verification |
+| Verify | debugging-and-error-recovery | Reproduce → localize → fix → guard |
+| Review | code-review-and-quality | Five-axis review with quality gates |
+| Review | security-and-hardening | OWASP prevention, input validation, least privilege |
+| Review | performance-optimization | Measure first, optimize only what matters |
+| Ship | git-workflow-and-versioning | Atomic commits, clean history |
+| Ship | ci-cd-and-automation | Automated quality gates on every change |
+| Ship | documentation-and-adrs | Document the why, not just the what |
+| Ship | shipping-and-launch | Pre-launch checklist, monitoring, rollback plan |
+| Author | designing-agents | Author a persona, workflow skill, or pi harness |

package/CHANGELOG.md

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 # agent-skills changelog
 
+## 0.3.3
+
+### Patch Changes
+
+- Ship `scripts/coms-net-server.ts` in the npm tarball.
+
+  The `coms-net` pi harness shells out to this hub server at runtime
+  (`.pi/harnesses/coms-net/index.ts` and its README both reference it),
+  but the file was missing from the `files` allowlist — so users who
+  installed via `npx @chankov/agent-skills init` and tried to start the
+  coms-net harness got `MODULE_NOT_FOUND`.
+
+  Added `scripts/*.ts` to the allowlist (the `.test.mjs` siblings stay
+  out — they're dev-only), and added `scripts/` to `snapshot-version.js`
+  so future `.versions/<x.y.z>/` snapshots include it for the version-
+  aware three-way diff.
+
 ## 0.3.1
 
 ### Patch Changes

package/bin/snapshot-version.js

@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ const ARTIFACT_PATHS = [
   ".pi/skills",
   ".pi/agents",
   ".pi/damage-control-rules.yaml",
+  // scripts/ ships runtime helpers like coms-net-server.ts that the pi
+  // coms-net harness shells out to. Tests under scripts/*.test.mjs stay out
+  // (filtered below) — they're dev-only.
+  "scripts",
   "references",
   "hooks",
 ];
@@ -58,7 +62,10 @@ for (const rel of ARTIFACT_PATHS) {
     recursive: true,
     filter: (srcPath) => {
       const base = srcPath.split("/").pop();
-      return !SKIP_NAMES.has(base);
+      if (SKIP_NAMES.has(base)) return false;
+      // Match what the npm `files` allowlist ships — dev-only tests stay out.
+      if (base.endsWith(".test.mjs") || base.endsWith(".test.js")) return false;
+      return true;
     },
   });
 }

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@chankov/agent-skills",
-  "version": "0.3.2",
+  "version": "0.3.3",
   "description": "Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents. Ships skills, agent personas, slash commands, and pi extensions, with a thin CLI that hands off to the LLM-driven guided setup.",
   "keywords": [
     "ai",
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
     ".pi/skills/",
     ".pi/agents/",
     ".pi/damage-control-rules.yaml",
+    "scripts/*.ts",
     "references/",
     "hooks/",
     "docs/agent-skills-setup.md",