| name | regenerate-readme |
| description | Rebuild README.md from current product reality (ROADMAP, AGENTS, design docs) after a load-bearing change or tone refresh, following the repeatable regeneration contract. |
| trigger | user |
| mutates_code | true |
| mutates_queue | false |
| sentinel | TASKBOARD-SKILL-REGENERATE-README |
Skill: Regenerate README
Sentinel: TASKBOARD-SKILL-REGENERATE-README. Echo this string in your first reply when the orchestrator probes whether the skill loaded.
Rebuild README.md from the current product reality. README is a narrative document; it drifts whenever code, architecture, or tone changes. This skill captures the contract so the regeneration is repeatable.
When to invoke
- After a load-bearing change to runner / orchestrator / supervisor / skill model that the README must reflect.
- After a marketing-tone refresh.
- When a periodic system review flags README drift against ROADMAP.md or AGENTS.md.
Inputs
The README must stay in sync with these sources of truth. Read them first; never paraphrase from memory:
Hard rules
These are policy, not preference. Violating any is a defect.
- No em dashes anywhere in the file. Use a hyphen, a comma, a semicolon, or a new sentence. The repo policy is in
AGENTS.md "Documentation Language".
- English only in the body. No pinned German note at the top: the previous propagation-test note was removed on 2026-05-12. Memory-propagation rules now live in AGENTS.md as structural guidance rather than a top-pin.
- No invented features. Every claim in the README must be traceable to code or to one of the source-of-truth docs above.
- Keep the demo project images. README references
docs/images/board-overview.png, docs/images/detail-protocol.png, docs/images/detail-three-panes.png, docs/images/detail-quality-gate.png. Do not delete the demo project these came from. Regenerate README often, keep the demo intact.
- Sections are stable. The top-level sections in the current README are the canonical narrative skeleton:
- Title
- Security first
- The bottleneck is you (with the ASCII queue diagram)
- Principles (table of skipped things)
- What you see (board / detail / three-pane / review handoff, each with one image)
- Deterministic orchestration over prompt trust (and the supervision pointer)
- Portable skills, not CLI-local silos
- How it's wired (ASCII boxes)
- Running (api.sh + npm)
- Dev vs stable checkout
- Cross-link to ROADMAP and AGENTS rather than duplicating their content. README is the marketing-narrative front door; ROADMAP is intent; AGENTS is operational rules.
Process
- Read every source-of-truth doc listed under Inputs.
- Diff the current README against the inputs. List drift candidates: claims that no longer hold, missing supervision section, stale endpoint shapes, broken image links, anything not in English.
- Draft the rewrite section by section. Keep the ASCII diagrams. Keep all image references; only replace an image if a new equivalent already exists at the same path.
- Run
grep -c "—" README.md and confirm the result is 0. If not, fix.
- Run
grep -nE "^## " README.md and confirm the section list matches the canonical skeleton. Add or restore missing sections; never silently delete one.
- Verify every internal link resolves:
grep -oE "\[.*\]\(\S+\)" README.md | grep -v "^http" and spot-check.
- Compare the rewrite to the previous version and write a one-paragraph commit message describing what drift was closed.
Output
One commit, message shape: docs(readme): regenerate to track <thing that drifted>.
Do not silently rewrite ROADMAP.md or AGENTS.md from this skill. If the rewrite reveals drift in those, surface it as separate follow-up tasks.
Anti-patterns
- Rewriting tone-by-vibe without re-reading the source docs. The README will drift further from reality.
- Adding em dashes "for flow". The lint sweeps them out; do not waste a round-trip.
- Adding a new top-level section without first updating the canonical skeleton list above.
- Adding a German top-pinned propagation note back. That experiment was rolled back on 2026-05-12; the propagation rule lives in AGENTS.md now, not as a README header.
- Inventing endpoints, file paths, or component names. README is read by people deciding whether to use the product; false claims erode trust faster than missing claims.
