skill-doctor

argument-hint	[--root PATH ...] [--format text|json] [--fix-safe] [--dependencies-only]
disable-model-invocation	false
name	skill-doctor
user-invocable	true
description	Use to audit Agent Skills catalogs or installed skill roots for metadata and doc-link issues; optionally apply conservative --fix-safe repairs.

Skill Doctor

Audit local Agent Skills catalogs and installed skill roots, then apply only narrow metadata repairs when requested.

Arguments

• --root PATH: Scan this catalog or installed skill root. Repeatable. Default: current working directory.
• --format text|json: Select report format. Default: text.
• --fix-safe: Create missing agents/openai.yaml files or update mismatched policy.allow_implicit_invocation.
• --dependencies-only: Report only malformed or unresolved skill-dependencies declarations. Do not combine with --fix-safe.

Workflow

1. Resolve the skill directory, then run the helper from that directory:

   uv run scripts/skill-doctor.py "$ARGUMENTS"
   

2. Use JSON when another command or agent will consume the result:

   uv run scripts/skill-doctor.py --root . --format json
   

3. Run safe fixes only after reading the findings:

   uv run scripts/skill-doctor.py --root . --fix-safe
   

4. Re-run without --fix-safe after any manual edits.

For a dependency-only catalog gate, run:

uv run scripts/skill-doctor.py --root . --dependencies-only

Findings

• Treat error findings as catalog defects that should block publishing or syncing.
• Treat warning findings as review-required catalog hygiene issues.
• Prompt-hygiene warnings are advisory and never auto-fix: stale model pins, oversized unconditional Markdown references, conflicting requirement/prohibition language, and missing completion evidence.
• Coordination-exemption errors are report-only: coordination: exempt must be paired with the catalog's canonical coordination-exempt body sentence, and neither side is repaired by --fix-safe.
• Dependency errors reject non-array, empty, non-string, duplicate, malformed, incorrectly ordered, self-referential, or unresolved local declarations. External ORG/REPO#SKILL identifiers are shape-checked without network access.
• Use path and line from JSON output for precise follow-up edits.

Safe Fix Policy

--fix-safe may only:

• Create a missing agents/openai.yaml with policy.allow_implicit_invocation derived from SKILL.md.
• Update an existing allow_implicit_invocation boolean when it disagrees with disable-model-invocation.

Do not use the helper to rewrite frontmatter order, descriptions, README rows, references/version.txt, or relative links. Make those edits manually and verify with a fresh audit.

Related Skills

• skill-doctor only audits the roots you pass; it does not search for them. To locate skill installs, duplicates, and cross-references across the machine, use the skill-map skill when it is installed.

Exit Codes

• 0: Clean, or all requested safe fixes succeeded and no findings remain.
• 1: The audit completed and findings remain; report them as review work, not as an operational crash.
• 2: Invalid arguments or unreadable environment.
• 3: A requested safe fix failed.

User-Facing Output

Keep --format json byte-valid and undecorated. For human output, lead with ### 🩺 Skill Doctor — ✅ clean, ### 🩺 Skill Doctor — ⚠️ review required, or ### 🩺 Skill Doctor — ⛔ blocked for exit 2/3, then show roots and error/warning/fix counts in a compact table. List safe fixes separately from remaining findings. For review-required or blocked outcomes, end with the smallest manual next action; for a clean result, stop after the summary. Keep paths, line numbers, codes, raw findings, commands, and diagnostics exact.