AC refactor-agents-md
Refactors AGENTS.md files into a minimal root file plus topic-specific follow-up docs using progressive disclosure. Use when cleaning up, splitting, or reviewing AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md guidance — or when the file has grown into a "ball of mud" with contradictions, bloat, and stale instructions.
As a process C 60/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
How to improve
- For Hermes the description must be one sentence under 60 characters; move the conditions to a "When to Use" section.
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 6. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
description-long-hermesdescription is 294 chars; the Hermes authoring standard requires ≤ 60 (one sentence, ending with a period)
Process rating: all ten parameters 60/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 60Consistency. The Hermes dialect needs category and tags
- 65Failures and branches. 3 branches
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 11 steps
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 744 tokens
- low The response is described with custom markup (24 tags): a typed call is more reliable
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +4Structure: 0 headings, hard to scan
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +4No input/output examples
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 294: enough signal without eating the budget
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 11 items
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (1 of 1)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 75.