# skills

Personal agent skills packaged through Nix.
The domain glossary lives at `$(xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS)/ai-artifacts/projects/skills/011-skills-context.md`.

## Conventions

- `AGENTS.md` is canonical for project instructions.
  Context, ADRs, specs, and tasks live under `$(xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS)/ai-artifacts/projects/skills/`.
- Skill source lives under `skills/<name>/`.
  Do not edit generated links under `.agents/skills/` or `.claude/skills/` as source.
- Run `nix flake check` before considering a repository-wide change complete.
  The check builds every packaged skill plus the Home Manager module, shell hook, and benchmark core tests.
- The dev shell may place Nix-delivered skills into `.agents/skills/` and maintain `.claude/skills` as a compatibility symlink.
  Generated ignore entries belong in the root `.gitignore`, not inside `.agents/skills/`, because skill scanners honor ignore files inside scanned skill directories.

## Gotchas

- `python3` is supplied by the default Nix dev shell, not the ambient environment.
  Enter `nix develop` before running Python-based project tools.
- A skill-local `GLOSSARY.md` is runtime reference for that skill and has no relationship to the project's AI-artifacts-vault context glossary.
- This repository owns packaged skill sources only.
  Enabling, replacing, or removing them in a consumer repository such as dotfiles is outside its scope.
- `nix flake check` evaluates the Git snapshot and omits untracked skill files.
  Use `nix flake check "path:$PWD"` to include a newly created skill before staging it.
- `$(xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS)/ai-artifacts` is itself an Obsidian vault for AI-generated artifacts, distinct from the personal vault where AI-generated notes are forbidden.
- Project artifact filenames carry globally allocated identifiers.
  Discover context and ADR artifacts through the AI artifacts vault convention rather than assuming fixed names or type directories.
- Do not turn opportunistic use of another skill into a declared dependency.
  Invocation of an unrelated skill remains the agent's discretion unless the current skill directly requires its contract.
- Do not instruct a skill to execute synchronously.
  In-process execution is the baseline, while isolation and parallelism belong to an external caller or runtime.
- When adapting an upstream skill, preserve mechanics the upstream skill leaves unspecified.
  Customize only the surfaces required to fit the local workflow rather than turning incidental choices into new contracts.
- The installed `gitea-axi pr view` does not support `--fields`.
  Use plain `gitea-axi pr view <number>`.