skill-refiner

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name: skill-refiner description: Audit and fix all skills in the workspace for compliance with skill-creator requirements. Use when asked to "refine skills", "audit skills", "check skill quality", or "fix non-compliant skills". Exhaustively searches the entire workspace (not just skills/) to find every SKILL.md, then audits and repairs each one.

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Skill Refiner

Finds every skill in the workspace, audits each against skill-creator requirements, and fixes non-compliant ones.

Workflow

Step 1 — Discover all skills

bash scripts/find_skills.sh [workspace_dir]

This searches the entire workspace for SKILL.md files (not just skills/). Skills created without following skill-creator conventions may end up anywhere.

Step 2 — Audit each skill

python3 scripts/audit_skill.py 

Returns JSON with:

issues — blocking problems that must be fixed

warnings — advisory improvements

compliant — true only when issues is empty

Run this on every path returned by Step 1. Batch example:

bash scripts/find_skills.sh | while read dir; do
  python3 scripts/audit_skill.py "$dir"
done

Step 3 — Report findings

Summarize results in a table:

| Skill | Location | Issues | Warnings | Status | |-------|----------|--------|----------|--------| | my-skill | skills/my-skill | 0 | 1 | ⚠️ | | bad-skill | temp/bad-skill | 2 | 0 | ❌ |

Step 4 — Fix non-compliant skills

For each skill with issues, fix in this order:

1. Missing/malformed frontmatter — Add or correct the --- block with name and description only 2. Extra frontmatter fields — Remove any fields other than name and description 3. Weak description — Rewrite to include: what the skill does + trigger conditions ("Use when...") 4. Extraneous files — Delete README.md, INSTALLATION_GUIDE.md, CHANGELOG.md, etc. 5. Wrong location — If a skill is outside skills/, move it to ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills// 6. Naming violations — Rename directory to lowercase-hyphen-case

For warnings (advisory):

Long SKILL.md (>500 lines): extract detailed content into references/ files and link from SKILL.md

Unlinked references: add links in SKILL.md body

Weak description: improve trigger language

Step 5 — Validate fixes

Re-run audit_skill.py on each fixed skill to confirm "compliant": true.

Optionally package with:

python3 /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/openclaw/skills/skill-creator/scripts/package_skill.py 

Compliance Checklist

A compliant skill must have:

[ ] SKILL.md at the root of a named directory

[ ] YAML frontmatter with exactly name and description (no other fields)

[ ] description includes what the skill does AND when to trigger it

[ ] Directory name: lowercase letters, digits, hyphens only; ≤64 chars

[ ] No extraneous files (README.md, CHANGELOG.md, etc.)

[ ] Resources only in scripts/, references/, or assets/

[ ] All references/ files linked from SKILL.md body

[ ] SKILL.md body ≤500 lines (split into references/ if longer)