Skills

Skills are the intent router below the SOP. The SOP says "load the matching skill"; each skill says what to do for that intent.

Slice	Covers
Review and delivery	reviews, GitHub, PR/issue text, communication
Repo workflow and code intelligence	git/worktrees, semantic tools, clone research, cleanup scanners
Elastic and Kibana	domain overlay, Buildkite, labels, ownership, backports, kbn-standup
External tools and media	Google Workspace, flights, browser control, image generation

Entry contract

Every skill should make four things obvious near the top:

Field	Purpose
Use when	routing triggers
Do not use	boundaries and escalation
First actions	mandatory first probes or skill loads
Output	expected deliverable

The description frontmatter is the primary routing signal. For non-manual skills, include the concise Use when trigger there; the body is only available after routing has already loaded the skill. Body Use when blocks may stay as detailed post-load applicability checks, but no routing trigger should exist only in the body. Keep descriptions specific, include non-obvious trigger words, and state repo/org constraints when a skill is gated.

Source map

Surface	Path
Source	home/exact_dot_agents/exact_skills/
Target	~/.agents/skills/
Entrypoint	SKILL.md in each skill folder
References	optional references/ under the skill folder

Cross-skill hygiene

• Composition skills sanitize public GitHub text before drafting or posting.
• k-compose-pr, k-compose-issue, and k-github reuse review's GitHub context intake when output depends on existing PR/issue/comment context.
• Generic skills own portable mechanics only. If a rule names an org, repo, product, team, label, bot login, CI instance, PR template, live-UI target, ownership policy, or release-note/backport rule, put it in a verified domain overlay or dedicated domain skill.
• Generic skills may dispatch to a domain overlay after verifying the target; they must not inline Elastic/Kibana or other domain defaults.
• GitHub issue worktrees prefer ,gh-worktree issue <owner/repo> <issue_number> --branch <branch-base-name>.

Credits

Four skills are adapted from Matt Pocock's mattpocock/skills (MIT-licensed). Attribution lives here rather than inline in each SKILL.md so it does not consume model context when the skill loads.

Skill	Adapted from
k-writing-great-skills	k-writing-great-skills
k-codebase-design	k-codebase-design
k-diagnosing-bugs	k-diagnosing-bugs
k-prototype	k-prototype