Repository Maintenance Guide

🛠️ Repository Maintenance Guide (V4)

"If it's not documented, it's broken."

This guide details the exact procedures for maintaining antigravity-awesome-skills. It covers the Quality Bar, Documentation Consistency, and Release Workflows.

0. 🤖 Agent Protocol (THE BIBLE)

AGENTS MUST READ AND FOLLOW THIS SECTION BEFORE MARKING ANY TASK AS COMPLETE.

There are 3 things that usually fail/get forgotten. DO NOT FORGET THEM:

1. 📤 ALWAYS PUSH (Non-Negotiable)

Committing is NOT enough. You must PUSH to the remote.

• BAD: git commit -m "feat: new skill" (User sees nothing)
• GOOD: git commit -m "..." && git push origin main

2. 🔄 SYNC GENERATED FILES (Avoid CI Drift)

If you touch any of these:

• skills/ (add/remove/modify skills)
• the Full Skill Registry section of README.md
• counts/claims about the number of skills (560+ Agentic Skills..., (560/560), etc.)

…then you MUST run the Validation Chain BEFORE committing.

• Running npm run chain is NOT optional.
• Running npm run catalog is NOT optional.

If CI fails with:

❌ Detected uncommitted changes produced by registry/readme/catalog scripts.

it means you did not run or commit the Validation Chain correctly.

3. 📝 EVIDENCE OF WORK

• You must create/update walkthrough.md or CHANGELOG.md to document what changed.
• If you made something new, link it in the artifacts.

4. 🚫 NO BRANCHES

• ALWAYS use the main branch.
• NEVER create feature branches (e.g., feat/new-skill).
• We commit directly to main to keep history linear and simple.

1. 🚦 Daily Maintenance Routine

A. Validation Chain

Before ANY commit that adds/modifies skills, run the chain:

1. Validate, index, and update readme:

   npm run chain
   

   Must return 0 errors for new skills.

2. Build catalog:

   npm run catalog
   

3. COMMIT GENERATED FILES:

   git add README.md skills_index.json data/catalog.json data/bundles.json data/aliases.json CATALOG.md
   git commit -m "chore: sync generated files"
   

   🔴 CRITICAL: If you skip this, CI will fail with "Detected uncommitted changes". See docs/CI_DRIFT_FIX.md for details.

B. Post-Merge Routine (Must Do)

After multiple PR merges or significant changes:

1. Sync Contributors List:

   • Run: git shortlog -sn --all
   • Update ## Repo Contributors in README.md.

2. Verify Table of Contents:

   • Ensure all new headers have clean anchors.
   • NO EMOJIS in H2 headers.

3. Draft a Release:

   • Go to Releases Page.
   • Draft a new release for the merged changes.
   • Tag version (e.g., v4.1.0).

2. 📝 Documentation "Pixel Perfect" Rules

We discovered several consistency issues during V4 development. Follow these rules STRICTLY.

A. Table of Contents (TOC) Anchors

GitHub's anchor generation breaks if headers have emojis.

• BAD: ## 🚀 New Here? -> Anchor: #--new-here (Broken)
• GOOD: ## New Here? -> Anchor: #new-here (Clean)

Rule: NEVER put emojis in H2 (##) headers. Put them in the text below if needed.

B. The "Trinity" of Docs

If you update installation instructions or tool compatibility, you MUST update all 3 files:

1. README.md (Source of Truth)
2. docs/GETTING_STARTED.md (Beginner Guide)
3. docs/FAQ.md (Troubleshooting)

Common pitfall: Updating the clone URL in README but leaving an old one in FAQ.

C. Statistics Consistency (CRITICAL)

If you add/remove skills, you MUST ensure the total count is identical in ALL locations. Do not allow drift (e.g., 560 in title, 558 in header).

Locations to check:

1. Title of README.md: "560+ Agentic Skills..."
2. ## Full Skill Registry (560/560) header.
3. docs/GETTING_STARTED.md intro.

D. Credits Policy (Who goes where?)

• Credits & Sources: Use this for External Repos.
  • Rule: "I extracted skills from this link you sent me." -> Add to ## Credits & Sources.
• Repo Contributors: Use this for Pull Requests.
  • Rule: "This user sent a PR." -> Add to ## Repo Contributors.

E. Badges & Links

• Antigravity Badge: Must point to https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills, NOT anthropics/antigravity.
• License: Ensure the link points to LICENSE file.

3. 🛡️ Governance & Quality Bar

A. The 5-Point Quality Check

Reject any PR that fails this:

1. Metadata: Has name, description?
2. Safety: risk: offensive used for red-team tools?
3. Clarity: Does it say when to use it?
4. Examples: Copy-pasteable code blocks?
5. Actions: "Run this command" vs "Think about this".

B. Risk Labels (V4)

• ⚪ Safe: Default.
• 🔴 Risk: Destructive/Security tools. MUST have [Authorized Use Only] warning.
• 🟣 Official: Vendor mirrors only.

4. 🚀 Release Workflow

When cutting a new version (e.g., V4):

1. Run Full Validation: python3 scripts/validate_skills.py --strict

2. Update Changelog: Add the new release section to CHANGELOG.md.

3. Bump Version:

   • Update package.json → "version": "X.Y.Z" (source of truth for npm).
   • Update version header in README.md if it displays the number.
   • One-liner: npm version patch (or minor/major) — bumps package.json and creates a git tag; then amend if you need to tag after release.

4. Create GitHub Release (REQUIRED):

   ⚠️ CRITICAL: Pushing a tag (git push --tags) is NOT enough. You must create a GitHub Release Object for it to appear in the sidebar and trigger the NPM publish workflow.

   Use the GitHub CLI:

   # This creates the tag AND the release page automatically
   gh release create v4.0.0 --title "v4.0.0 - [Theme Name]" --notes-file release_notes.md
   

   Or manually via the GitHub UI > Releases > Draft a new release.

5. Publish to npm (so npx antigravity-awesome-skills works):

   • Option A (manual): From repo root, with npm logged in and 2FA/token set up:

     npm publish
     

     You cannot republish the same version; always bump package.json before publishing.
   • Option B (CI): On GitHub, create a Release (tag e.g. v4.6.1). The workflow Publish to npm runs on Release published and runs npm publish if the repo secret NPM_TOKEN is set (npm → Access Tokens → Granular token with Publish, then add as repo secret NPM_TOKEN).

📋 Changelog Entry Template

Each new release section in CHANGELOG.md should follow Keep a Changelog and this structure:

## [X.Y.Z] - YYYY-MM-DD - "[Theme Name]"

> **[One-line catchy summary of the release]**

[Brief 2-3 sentence intro about the release's impact]

## 🚀 New Skills

### [Emoji] [Skill Name](skills/skill-name/)

**[Bold high-level benefit]**
[Description of what it does]

- **Key Feature 1**: [Detail]
- **Key Feature 2**: [Detail]

> **Try it:** `(User Prompt) ...`

---

## 📦 Improvements

- **Registry Update**: Now tracking [N] skills.
- **[Component]**: [Change detail]

## 👥 Credits

A huge shoutout to our community contributors:

- **@username** for `skill-name`
- **@username** for `fix-name`

---

_Upgrade now: `git pull origin main` to fetch the latest skills._

5. 🚨 Emergency Fixes

If a skill is found to be harmful or broken:

1. Move to broken folder (don't detect): mv skills/bad-skill skills/.broken/
2. Or Add Warning: Add > [!WARNING] to the top of SKILL.md.
3. Push Immediately.