By Arenukvern
Enforce repository governance for AI-operated codebases using Steward contracts: validate agent skills, manage architectural decisions, audit code quality, and orchestrate multi-agent handoffs with release automation across ecosystem marketplaces.
Design, implement, and integrate generalized validation harnesses across a producer-consumer boundary after a local harness contract exists. Use when refactoring custom validation CLIs/MCPs for large polyrepos, extending Steward across sibling repos, or deploying a local tool to a consumer project for dogfooding and testing; use mcp-harness-repo-maintainer first for initial steward.yaml adoption and cold-start proof.
Maintains repo-local action contracts and harness repositories where product CLI and MCP adapters stay thin over core libraries. Use when adopting or improving steward.yaml actions, capability-level adoption evidence, cold-start proof loops, probes, benchmarks, CLI/MCP/core parity, adapter refactors, packages/core boundaries, or sibling harness layout; use repo-quality-system-lifecycle first for general app/library/tool stewardship baselines.
Run a Mixture of Experts (MoE) audit on any topic, plan, codebase, evidence archive, or process. Dynamically spawns specialized subagents with different critical lenses to cross-reference findings and detect flaws, overlap, retention issues, or drift. Use when designing architectures, analyzing complex code, verifying multi-step plans, classifying evidence artifacts, or looking for duplicated intent in a repo.
Plan and document handoffs, parent lane contracts, and parallel batch contracts between specialized AI agents (foreman, workers, reviewers). Use for multi-agent workflows, subagents, original goal preservation, native gates, claim ceilings, terminal states, baton passes, or guild-style agent coordination.
Designs public or private Agent Skill and plugin marketplaces for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Zed, Open Plugin, and npx skills—manifest layout, install matrix, and Skill Steward vs product boundaries. Use when setting up a marketplace, distributing skills/plugins to a team, private registry, .cursor-plugin, .codex-plugin, .plugin, .claude-plugin, or skills.sh publishing.
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Engineering Stewardship for agent-operated repositories — apps, libraries, tools, plugins, harnesses, and meta repos. Skill Steward gives humans and agents a shared structural layer for charter, decisions, docs, quality gates, release legibility, safe handoff, and evidence-backed contract proof.
It ships through Agent Skills plus a bounded steward CLI for repo-local registration, validation, contract proof, adoption checks, and read-only ecology routing. Agent Skills are the portable delivery surface; the object of stewardship is the repository as a whole.
Charter: docs/NORTH_STAR.mdx · Docs: docs.page/arenukvern/skill_steward · docs.json
Why / how: docs/DESIGN_FAQ.mdx · docs/DX_FAQ.mdx · Repo quality contracts · Decisions · AGENTS.md
| Your repo is... | Skill Steward should help you... |
|---|---|
| An app | Preserve product intent, architecture decisions, validation gates, release evidence, and debugging paths. |
| A library | Keep API contracts, compatibility decisions, package releases, and consumer proof legible. |
| A CLI/tool | Make commands, --json output, effects, limits, and release artifacts agent-readable. |
| A plugin | Document host integration, permissions, install/rollback steps, and compatibility boundaries. |
| A harness/action-contract repo | Prove quick-safe actions, probes, benchmarks, and CLI/MCP/core parity. |
| A meta/governance repo | Maintain skills, policies, docs, evals, and stewardship patterns without becoming a domain cookbook. |
Skill Steward does not make those repos good by assertion; it gives them a structure for proving what is good.
| Project | Role |
|---|---|
| Product Harnesses | Runtime/framework tooling so agents can inspect and interact with running apps. |
| Skill Steward (this repo) | Engineering stewardship layer — structural governance and quality patterns for agent-operated repositories. |
| Principles at work | Why — ethical AI boundaries, care for end users and builders, prototyping with feedback, artisan credit. |
Same thread: useful docs for humans and agents, mechanical gates, and work worth people's time. See FAQ-driven development for the documentation shape this repo dogfoods.
| Actor | Command surface | Use when |
|---|---|---|
| Agent skill consumer | npx skills add arenukvern/skill_steward | Installing portable stewardship skills. |
| Repo adopter or CI runner | install.sh, then steward <command> | Installing the optional steward CLI for repo validation/adoption without Dart. |
| Maintainer changing this checkout | pnpm run validate or cd packages/steward_cli && dart run :steward validate | Proving source changes against the current checkout. |
npx skills)# Install all stewardship skills (project scope)
npx skills add arenukvern/skill_steward
# Install a specific skill
npx skills add arenukvern/skill_steward --skill repo-quality-system-lifecycle
npx skills add arenukvern/skill_steward --skill repository-governance-lifecycle
# Install globally
npx skills add arenukvern/skill_steward -g
# Target specific agents while iterating
npx skills add arenukvern/skill_steward -a cursor -a claude-code -a codex -a zed -y
Discover available skills on skills.sh or search them in the terminal:
npx skills find steward
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