Species page

Skill frankxai/marine-agent-skills/skills/species-page

Use when authoring or updating a Blue Life Commons species page (cetacean, pinniped, turtle, shark/ray, reef). Produces schema-valid Markdown with sourced claims and honest review status. Triggers — "write a species page", "add a species to the commons", "document <species>".From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add frankxai/marine-agent-skills --skill species-page

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SKILL.md

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Authoring a Blue Life Commons species page

You are contributing to a public scientific commons. Unsourced claims do not ship.

Before writing (read these in the target repo)

AGENTS.md — binding rules for agent contributions.
SOURCES.md — citation tiers (Tier 1 primary / Tier 2 institutional only for science claims).
ETHICS.md — no anthropomorphism, no interaction promotion, no precise locations for vulnerable taxa.
schema/artifact-schema.yaml — required frontmatter fields.

The gold-standard structure (each factual sentence must trace to a source)

Taxonomy & description — accepted scientific name + authority; defer ranges to cited sources.
IUCN status — category with assessment date and Red List version. A 2009 "Least Concern" is not current truth; surface the assessment age.
Distribution — at safe granularity. Use regional/coarse description, never exact aggregation sites, nesting beaches, or haul-outs for vulnerable taxa. When in doubt, coarsen.
Behavior / ecology — every claim cited to Tier 1–2; no "what the animal is thinking" framing.
Threats — cite IUCN threat classification + regional pressures.
What you can do — welfare-first; minimum approach distance citing the strictest applicable rule; link iNaturalist / Happywhale for ethical reporting.
Sources — full list, DOIs where available, access dates.

Frontmatter

Set status: needs-expert-review and review.science: pending for any new science page — you do not decide scientific truth; reviewers do. Fill sources[], species, species_group, outputs.website_path, outputs.github_path, contributors, license: CC-BY-4.0.

Sensitivity check (mandatory)

Before finalizing distribution: would a coarse location + a season + a visible landmark in any included media reconstruct an exact site? If yes, coarsen further or omit. Apply the GBIF four-category model where the commons has adopted it.

Finish

Run /source-verify over the draft (no un-sourced factual sentence).
Run /ethics-check.
Run /validate-artifact (schema gate).
Run /open-artifact-pr.

Built on SIP · Blue Life Commons (CC-BY-4.0).

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.