brooks-lint — New Skill Scaffold

SkillDev tools

Scaffold a new brooks-lint analysis skill so it passes `npm run validate` and `npm run evals` on the first try — generates skills/{name}/SKILL.md (with the mandatory "Do NOT trigger for:" clause and a Process section citing guide step ranges) plus skills/{name}/{name}-guide.md (sequentially numbered steps), then appends paired eval scenarios. Triggers when the maintainer asks to "add a new skill", "scaffold a skill", or "create a brooks-lint mode". Do NOT trigger for: editing an existing skill's content, adding a single eval to an existing skill, or authoring skills for some other plugin.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the brooks-lint — New Skill Scaffold skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by hyhmrright/brooks-lint in .claude/skills/new-skill/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Skill name comes from $ARGUMENTS (kebab-case, e.g. brooks-security). If empty, ask for the name and a one-line purpose first.

Follow the repo's "Adding a New Skill" checklist exactly:

  1. Create skills/{name}/SKILL.md with frontmatter — name, a description that ends with a Do NOT trigger for: clause (validate-enforced for shipped skills; omitting it causes false triggering), and a Process section of 3–6 bullets that cite the guide's step ranges inline (e.g. Scan risks (Steps 1–6 of the guide)). Mirror the structure of an existing skill such as skills/brooks-review/SKILL.md (Setup → Process → Mode line).
  2. Create skills/{name}/{name}-guide.md with sequentially numbered steps — no gaps, no duplicates. Sub-steps like Step 2a are allowed. The guide owns the detailed steps; the SKILL.md Process is just an orientation skeleton.
  3. Wire the framework. The new SKILL.md Setup section must Read the relevant _shared/ files (common.md for Iron Law + Report Template, plus decay-risks.md / test-decay-risks.md as applicable) — _shared/ is NOT auto-loaded.
  4. Add eval coverage to evals/evals.json: append with the next sequential id at least one happy-path scenario (with the relevant risk code in expected_output) and at least one false-positive scenario flagged no_risk_codes: true. Each scenario needs id, name, prompt, expected_output, mode, files.
  5. Validate. npm run validate (structure + step continuity + Process-section presence) and npm run evals (eval schema). Fix until both pass.
  6. Local-test. cp -r skills/* ~/.claude/skills/brooks-lint/ (if you've symlinked ~/.claude/skills/brooks-lint to the repo, skip this — edits are already live), trigger the new skill in a Claude session, verify the Iron Law output, then restore the marketplace copy: /plugin marketplace update/plugin install brooks-lint@brooks-lint-marketplace.

Do NOT register a slash command by hand — short forms are auto-installed by the session-start hook. Report the files created and the validate/evals results.

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