New tests/skills/test_authoring_standards.py parametrizes every bundled +
optional SKILL.md (1148 checks) against the mechanically-verifiable subset
of the hardline standards:
- required frontmatter fields (name/description/version/author/license/
platforms) + tags
- frontmatter name == directory name
- description <= 60 chars, ends with period, no marketing words
- related_skills resolve in-repo
- no machine-local paths
- <= 100k chars
Grandfather dict for legacy debt ships EMPTY — all pre-existing violations
fixed in this PR:
- 13 frontmatter names canonicalized to their directory names (the install
identifier); all related_skills references updated (comfyui -> stable-
diffusion). Fixes the class behind PR #42788's report; also fixes
here.now's invalid dot-name.
- optional-skills/devops/cli -> inference-sh-cli (dir was the generic
'cli'; fm name was right) incl. docs pages (en + zh-Hans), catalog row,
sidebar entry.
- pytorch-fsdp: 157k generated 'Quick Reference' dump moved to
references/common-patterns.md; SKILL.md 159k -> 2.5k with a pointer.
- research-paper-writing: 31.7k Phase 5 drafting section moved to
references/phase5-paper-drafting.md; SKILL.md 103k -> 71k.
Docs regenerated with scope discipline.
Findings from scanning skills/ + optional-skills/ with NVIDIA
SkillEvaluator's deterministic Tier 1 checks (PII/secrets, unicode
smuggling, script lint):
- pixel-art, pokemon-player: remove hardcoded /home/teknium/ personal
paths (use ~ / portable phrasing); pokemon-player no longer claims
machine-specific state as fact
- kanban-video-orchestrator: replace <path> angle-bracket token in
frontmatter credits (flagged as XML-in-frontmatter prompt injection)
- comfyui, hermes-agent, unsloth, 1password, actual-setup: rephrase
placeholder secrets so they no longer pattern-match real credentials
(your-* placeholder convention, comment markers, {env:...} form)
- docker-management, pytorch-lightning: drop user:pass@ from example
connection strings (env/secret-manager guidance instead)
- evm: break up Keccak round constant that Luhn-validates as a credit
card number (digit-group underscores, value unchanged)
All targeted skills now pass pii+unicode+lint 3/3 except unsloth, which
retains scanner false positives only (Colab notebook IDs read as Bitcoin
addresses; an email inside a quoted upstream system prompt).
These skills require heavy GPU/CUDA stacks or are niche enough that they shouldn't
be active by default. Moved to optional-skills/ where users opt-in via
`hermes skills install official/...`.
Moved:
- mlops/training/axolotl
- mlops/training/trl-fine-tuning
- mlops/training/unsloth
- mlops/inference/outlines
Counts: 91 -> 87 built-in, 72 -> 76 optional.
Auto-regenerated docs (per-skill pages + catalogs) reflect the move.