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feat: add skills field to agents for auto-loading relevant skills#120

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Summary

  • Adds the skills frontmatter field to all 3 agents to auto-load relevant skill documentation when invoked
  • Makes agents more self-contained and effective by providing them with domain-specific best practices

Problem

Fixes #118

The plugin's agents don't leverage the skills frontmatter field to auto-load relevant context. Users need to manually load skills first, or agents operate without that documentation context.

Solution

Add skills field to each agent's frontmatter:

Agent Skills Auto-loaded
agent-creator agent-development
plugin-validator plugin-structure, hook-development, command-development, skill-development, agent-development
skill-reviewer skill-development

Alternatives Considered

  1. Status quo: Users manually load skills (current behavior)
  2. Document in prompts: Add references in system prompt text (doesn't auto-load)
  3. Single skill per agent: Only load most relevant skill (less comprehensive for plugin-validator)

Chose the approach from the issue which provides comprehensive coverage while being targeted to each agent's needs.

Changes

  • agent-creator.md: Added skills: agent-development
  • plugin-validator.md: Added skills: plugin-structure, hook-development, command-development, skill-development, agent-development
  • skill-reviewer.md: Added skills: skill-development

Testing

  • All modified files pass markdownlint
  • Skills referenced exist in the plugin

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Add the `skills` frontmatter field to each agent to auto-load relevant
skill documentation when the agent is invoked:

- agent-creator: loads agent-development skill
- plugin-validator: loads plugin-structure, hook-development,
  command-development, skill-development, agent-development skills
- skill-reviewer: loads skill-development skill

This makes agents more self-contained by automatically providing them
with the plugin's best practices documentation for their domain.

Fixes #118

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PR Review: Add skills field to agents

Reviewing PR #120: feat: add skills field to agents for auto-loading relevant skills


Summary

✅ APPROVED - This PR successfully implements the skills frontmatter field for all three agents, making them more self-contained and effective.


What's Good

  1. Clean, targeted implementation: Each agent file gets exactly one line added - the skills field in the frontmatter
  2. Thoughtful skill selection:
    • agent-creator: Gets agent-development - focused and relevant
    • plugin-validator: Gets comprehensive coverage (plugin-structure, hook-development, command-development, skill-development, agent-development) - appropriate for a validator that checks all component types
    • skill-reviewer: Gets skill-development - perfectly scoped
  3. All referenced skills exist: Verified that all 5 unique skills referenced exist in the plugin
  4. Markdown quality: All files pass markdownlint with no issues
  5. Proper frontmatter placement: Skills field added after tools and before the closing ---, maintaining consistent formatting
  6. Well-documented PR: Clear problem statement, solution rationale, and testing evidence

Checklist Verification

Based on the custom review instructions:

  • Agents: Frontmatter is valid, skills field properly formatted as comma-separated list
  • Markdown Quality: markdownlint passes with no errors on all three files
  • Documentation: PR body clearly explains the change; no user-facing docs need updating since this is an internal agent improvement

Technical Review

Changes Made:

# agent-creator.md
+skills: agent-development

# plugin-validator.md  
+skills: plugin-structure, hook-development, command-development, skill-development, agent-development

# skill-reviewer.md
+skills: skill-development

Validation Performed:

  • All 5 referenced skills exist in plugins/plugin-dev/skills/:
    • ✅ agent-development
    • ✅ command-development
    • ✅ hook-development
    • ✅ plugin-structure
    • ✅ skill-development
  • Frontmatter syntax is correct (YAML list format)
  • Placement is consistent across all three agent files

Impact Assessment

This change will improve agent effectiveness by:

  1. Auto-loading relevant documentation context when agents are invoked
  2. Reducing manual work for users (no need to manually load skills first)
  3. Ensuring agents have domain-specific best practices available
  4. Making agents more self-contained and reliable

Recommendations

None - This PR is ready to merge as-is. The implementation is clean, well-tested, and aligns with the issue requirements (#118).


@sjnims sjnims self-assigned this Dec 11, 2025
@claude claude Bot added enhancement New feature or request component:agent Agents layer effort:small < 1 hour labels Dec 11, 2025
@sjnims sjnims merged commit 8ad84d4 into main Dec 11, 2025
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