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Use when modifying agentic contextual building blocks like skills (SKILL.md), slash commands, agents, hooks, plugins, marketplaces, and instruction files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, QWEN.md, Cursor, Copilot, Cline, or Kiro rules), tool configuration such as an OpenCode `opencode.json`, Muse Code hooks (`.muse/hooks.json`), a Grok Build `.grok/` project layer or a Google Antigravity customization root (`.agents/`, `.agent/`, `_agents/`, `_agent/` — hooks, MCP config, rules, registries and plugins), and committed project memory (`.agents/memory/`). Run skillsaw on the files you touched, apply autofixes, resolve remaining violations with `skillsaw explain` guidance, and re-lint until clean before considering the work complete.

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Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.

skillsaw Lint

You just authored or edited agentic context — a skill, slash command, agent, hook, plugin, marketplace, or instruction file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, Cursor/Copilot/Cline/Kiro rules), or the configuration that loads it (an OpenCode opencode.json). That content feeds an agent's context window, and defects in it — weak language, contradictions, placeholder text, instructions buried in attention dead zones — degrade every future session that loads it. Lint it with skillsaw and improve it before you report the work as done.

Run the skillsaw CLI for every step below; it is the interface for linting, fixing, and explaining — replace any hand-rolled check with it.

Step 1: Locate skillsaw

Run skillsaw --version. If the command is missing, check the project for a pinned version before installing — look in the Makefile, pyproject.toml, or an existing .venv (e.g. .venv/bin/skillsaw --version). Use that version with uvx skillsaw==<version> as the prefix for every command below (or pip install skillsaw==<version> if uvx is unavailable).

Step 2: Lint what you wrote

Run the linter scoped to the files or directories you created or edited:

skillsaw lint <path>

Read each violation line: it carries the severity, file path, line number, message, and rule ID. If the repository defines its own lint entry point (a Makefile lint target that runs skillsaw, for example), run that instead — it may pin a version or pass flags like --strict.

If the lint exits 0 with no violations, your work is clean — stop here and report done.

Step 3: Apply deterministic autofixes

skillsaw fix <path>

This applies safe, structural fixes (missing frontmatter, kebab-case names, and similar). Run skillsaw fix --dry-run first to inspect the diff before anything is written. Run skillsaw fix --suggest for a second tier of mechanically derived fixes (stale-reference updates after a rename, for example) — review each hunk in that tier before applying it.

Step 4: Resolve the remaining violations

For each rule ID still reported, load its guidance:

skillsaw explain <rule-id>

Read the rule's rationale and its "How to fix" section, then apply that guidance with a targeted edit. Change only the text that triggers the violation and keep the meaning you intended when you wrote it. Do not guess a fix from the violation message alone; run skillsaw explain and follow its guidance.

Step 5: Re-lint until clean

Re-run skillsaw lint <path> after your edits and repeat Steps 3–4 until it exits 0. Then run skillsaw from the repository root to confirm your changes introduced no violations elsewhere. The lint output ends with a letter grade for the repository's agentic content — leave it the same or better than you found it.

When to escalate

  • Many violations across many files: hand off to the skillsaw-fix skill, which runs a deeper inventory, fix, and verify loop across a whole repository.
  • A violation that needs a decision only the user can make (two contradictory instructions, a reference that looks stale but is intentional): present it to the user with your recommendation instead of inventing an answer.

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