Skills Reference

The kit ships 10 skills under kit/.claude/skills/. Each is a SKILL.md in its own folder. Six are portable as-is; four are adaptable (they reference your install method, gate, or build commands).

Skill	Verdict	What it does
cleanup	Portable	Dead-code and duplicate detection with categorized recommendations.
code-review	Portable	Review the working diff for correctness bugs and spec drift, emit an evidence line.
commit	Portable	Create a git commit with an impact-focused conventional message.
implement-plan	Portable	Execute a plan file step by step with progress tracking and checkpoints.
refactor-claude-md	Portable	Tighten and restructure a bloated CLAUDE.md, extracting path-scoped rules.
research	Portable	Deep research with parallel sub-agents and a filesystem artifact protocol.
init	Adaptable	Run the AGENTS.md New Sessions protocol. Adapt via your AGENTS.md.
setup	Adaptable	One-time setup: install spec-spine, verify the governed loop.
validate-and-fix	Adaptable	Run your local CI loop and fix findings in severity order.
ship	Adaptable	Gate, review, commit on a feature branch, open a PR.

Portable skills

• cleanup finds dead code and duplication, classifies each finding, and refuses to remove spec-owned paths without checking spec-spine registry show.
• code-review runs decorrelated finders over the diff and verifies each finding, ending in a Local-Review-Evidence: line that /ship can carry.
• commit writes a conventional, impact-focused commit message; it never adds AI attribution trailers.
• implement-plan drives a plan file through a status state machine with task-list and midpoint checkpoints.
• refactor-claude-md restructures an overgrown CLAUDE.md into a lean core plus path-scoped rules.
• research fans out parallel sub-agents and synthesizes a cited report.

Adaptable skills

• init is a thin dispatcher over your AGENTS.md protocol; see Session init.
• setup installs spec-spine and smoke-tests compile, index check, lint, and couple. Point step 1 at your preferred install method.
• validate-and-fix runs your CI composite (commonly make ci), categorizes findings (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW), fixes them in phases, and supports parallel fix agents. Add your own post-feature quality checklist.
• ship runs the gate (compile, lint, index check, couple), invokes /code-review then /commit, and opens a PR at a checkpoint. Adapt the gate commands and waiver keyword to your repo.

Not shipped

shepherd-prs (post-merge PR shepherding) is wired to a specific PR/queue setup and is omitted. Recreate it for your flow if you need post-merge automation.