Review a skill

Skill MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills/skills/review-a-skill

Universal skill installer and package manager for AI coding agents. One command, 12+ runtimes. npx ai-agent-skills

Install

npx -y skills add MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills --skill review-a-skill

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What its author says it does

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Use when evaluating whether a skill belongs in a library. Preview content, check frontmatter, validate structure, and decide whether to keep, curate, or remove.

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Review A Skill

Goal

Evaluate a single skill's quality, relevance, and safety before it enters or stays in a library.

Guardrails

Always use --format json for machine-readable output in automated pipelines.
Always use --fields to limit output size when inspecting catalog entries.
Always use --dry-run before curating or removing a skill.
Never remove a skill without first checking if other skills depend on it via info --format json dependencies.

Workflow

Preview the skill content to check for quality and safety.

npx ai-agent-skills preview <skill-name>

The preview command sanitizes content — if it flags sanitization, investigate before proceeding.

Inspect the catalog entry for metadata completeness.

npx ai-agent-skills info <skill-name> --format json --fields name,description,tags,collections,dependencies

Validate the skill's SKILL.md structure.

npx ai-agent-skills validate <skill-name>

If the skill needs curation (notes, collections, verification):

npx ai-agent-skills curate <skill-name> --notes "Reviewed: solid patterns" --verify --dry-run
npx ai-agent-skills curate <skill-name> --notes "Reviewed: solid patterns" --verify

If the skill should be removed:

npx ai-agent-skills curate <skill-name> --remove --dry-run
npx ai-agent-skills curate <skill-name> --remove --yes

Decision Criteria

Keep: Clear description, valid frontmatter, useful to the library's audience, no injection patterns.
Curate: Needs better whyHere, collection placement, or verification status.
Remove: Duplicate, outdated, broken source, or contains suspicious content.

Gotchas

The preview command only works for vendored (house) skills. Upstream skills show description and whyHere only.
The validate command checks frontmatter structure but not content quality — that requires human or agent judgment.
Removing a skill that other skills depend on will break the dependency graph. Always check dependencies.usedBy first.