skills-governance - SKILL.md Agent Skill

name: skills-governance description: Use when auditing a large local skill collection, identifying duplicate or imported skills, comparing skill roots, or deciding what to keep, disable, or archive across Codex and adjacent agent skill directories. user-invocable: true

Skills Governance

Purpose

Use the bundled scanner as the source of truth for local skill inventory. Base recommendations on real directories and SKILL.md frontmatter instead of stale catalogs or memory.

When to Use

The user says they have too many skills and cannot tell what is useful.
The user wants a Codex-first keep or disable plan.
The user needs duplicate-name groups across multiple skill roots.
The user suspects imported plugin packs or mirrored skills are causing confusion.
The user wants a filesystem-backed inventory before changing skill settings.

How to Run It

Invoke the bundled scan.js from this skill directory.

Codex-first inventory: node scan.js --mode codex --format markdown
Cross-agent inventory: node scan.js --mode all --format markdown
Duplicate review only: node scan.js --mode all --duplicates-only --format markdown
Machine-readable output: node scan.js --mode all --format json

Workflow

Run the scanner in codex mode first.
If the results still do not explain the user's confusion, rerun in all mode.
Explain the problem from roots, duplicate groups, and suspicious flags before recommending changes.
Prefer Codex [[skills.config]] disable suggestions over editing individual SKILL.md files unless the user explicitly asks for direct file edits.
Separate recommendations into three buckets: keep, disable for now, and archive or external mirror.
If the user asks to execute changes, list exact target paths and wait for confirmation first.

Output Contract

Report at least:

scanned roots
total skills
enabled and disabled counts
duplicate-name groups
suspicious flags such as plugin-import, system, or backup-like
a compact per-skill list when needed

Acceptance

A good run:

completes without external dependencies
reflects the actual filesystem state
shows duplicate groups by skill name
remains stable across repeated runs unless files changed