# Workspace Skill

> Share skills with your team and collaboratively improve them through a git-based workspace registry — publish a skill, sync the team's skills, pool eval results, and walk a reviewer through promoting a skill to a stable channel. Use when the user wants to share, publish, sync, or promote team skills.

- Skill: `bennyoooo/workspace-skill` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add bennyoooo/workspace-skill`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/bennyoooo/workspace-skill/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: Bennyoooo (https://skillmd.com/u/bennyoooo)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/bennyoooo/workspace-skill

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# workspace-skill

Operate the team workspace registry. The registry is **just a git repo** the team pushes/pulls — no server. The CLI handles publish/sync/pool/promote; you handle the conversation and the review.

## Publish

```bash
scripts/workspace.sh publish --registry <dir> --skill-dir <dir> --channel dev --by "<name>"
```

New work goes to `dev` first. After publishing, remind the user to **commit and push** the registry repo so teammates can sync.

## Sync

```bash
scripts/workspace.sh sync --registry <dir> [--channel dev]
```

Synced skills land under `~/.skillmax/workspace/<registry>/` as `trusted:false`. A synced skill whose name collides with a local skill is **namespaced by origin** — the local skill and its history are never overwritten. Tell the user which synced skills collided. From there they can install or optimize a synced skill explicitly.

## Pool eval results (collaborative optimization)

Contributors share scores so anyone can optimize against the team's pooled signal:

```bash
scripts/workspace.sh pool --registry <dir> --skill <name> --score <0..1> --by "<name>"
```

Pooled results are append-only (merge-friendly). Use them as the eval signal when running `optimize-skill` against a shared skill.

## Promote (review-gated)

Promotion up the channel ladder (`dev → beta → stable`) **requires explicit review and approval**:

```bash
scripts/workspace.sh promote --registry <dir> --skill <name> --channel stable --approve --approver "<name>"
```

- Without `--approve` and an `--approver`, promotion is refused.
- If a **different version** already occupies the target channel, the CLI reports a **conflict** and stops — never silently merging. Resolve manually (decide which version wins) and re-run.
- Each approval is recorded as an append-only receipt in the registry.

Walk the reviewer through the diff and the pooled scores before they approve. Do not pass `--approve` on the user's behalf without their explicit go-ahead.

## Trust note

Synced/published skills are untrusted by default. Treat registry content as you would any shared input; never auto-grant trust or execute a synced skill's code without the user's confirmation.