Sap Skills Creator

SAP Skills Creator

Procedural guidance for producing high-quality SAP-related Agent Skills. The skill turns real engineering knowledge into a scoped, secure, validated skill folder — never a vague SAP encyclopedia.

Purpose

Take verified project knowledge (a runbook, a completed task, code, an API spec, review feedback) and produce a triggerable Agent Skill that:

• Solves one coherent, repeatable SAP-related task.
• States exactly when it should activate.
• Uses procedures instead of vague declarations.
• Handles credentials, TLS, destructive operations, and reporting safely.
• Passes structural and security validation before review.

When to Use

Activate this skill when any of the following is true:

• A team wants to package a completed SAP engineering task as a reusable skill.
• An existing skill is too large, vague, insecure, or hard to trigger.
• A skill folder needs an independent structural, security, and trigger audit.
• A new skill must be integrated into a multi-skill repository with a catalog, license, and security policy.
• A skill must be prepared for SAP AI Skills Library registration.

When Not to Use

Do not activate this skill for:

• Writing generic SAP tutorials or encyclopedic product overviews.
• Fixing a single defect in the target SAP codebase.
• Running SAP operations directly against a live system.
• Publishing, tagging, or registering a skill automatically.
• Producing prebuilt executables.
• Replacing domain expertise that has not been verified.

Core Principles

1. Start from real expertise. Reject vague prompts such as "create a complete skill about all of SAP BTP." Narrow the scope before writing.
2. Design a coherent unit. One responsibility, clear inputs, clear outputs, clear activation, composable with other skills.
3. Prefer procedures. Replace vague declarations ("follow best practices") with sequences, defaults, decision criteria, and stop conditions.
4. Use progressive disclosure. Keep SKILL.md focused, move detail to references/, put templates in assets/, put deterministic operations in scripts/.
5. Match control to risk. Higher-risk operations require preconditions, dry-run, human authorization, and explicit reporting.
6. Never invent SAP APIs. Do not fabricate endpoints, authorization objects, CDS entities, BTP service plans, destination properties, ADT commands, CAP APIs, Fiori annotations, or Integration Suite capabilities.
7. Public releases require sanitization. Remove customer data, real hostnames, secrets, and proprietary code before public distribution.

Load references/skill-design.md for the detailed design framework.

Operating Modes

Choose an explicit mode at the start of the workflow. Do not switch modes silently.

Mode-specific rules live in references/skill-design.md and references/repository-integration.md.

Required Inputs

Before generating anything, capture or infer:

• Skill objective and target users.
• Target agents or clients.
• SAP product or technology in scope.
• The repeatable workflow (inputs, steps, outputs).
• Positive and negative activation triggers.
• Required tools, credentials, and network access.
• Read, write, and destructive operations.
• Expected failure modes.
• Source materials (task history, runbook, code, docs, spec).
• Distribution target (internal team or public).
• Repository target and license.
• Validation approach.

When the source materials answer these, inspect them first. Ask the user only about gaps that block a safe design. Priority order is:

1. Objective and workflow.
2. Source expertise.
3. Risk and credentials.
4. Inputs and outputs.
5. Distribution target.
6. Validation.

The full interview protocol is in references/discovery-and-scoping.md.

Workflow

Execute the phases in order. Do not skip a phase, and do not merge phases just because the user asked for speed.

Discover → Scope → Research → Design → Generate → Security review →
Validate → Evaluate → Integrate → Prepare submission

Phase 1: Discover the Source Expertise

Load references/discovery-and-scoping.md.

1. Identify the concrete source of expertise: completed task, runbook, code, API doc, review notes, incident log.
2. Confirm the workflow is repeatable and not a one-off fix.
3. Extract the actual steps that were taken, the tools used, and the decisions that mattered.
4. List the failure modes that were encountered or are known.

Stop and clarify when there is no verified source of expertise. Generic LLM knowledge alone is not a valid source.

Phase 2: Scope the Skill

1. Write one problem statement:

   This skill helps <target user or agent> perform <repeatable task> in
   <context>, especially when <trigger condition>.
   

2. Draft the proposed skill slug (lowercase, hyphenated, ≤ 64 characters).

3. Fill in the requirements template (assets/skill-requirements-template.md) with the captured inputs.

4. Reject the scope when it is too broad ("all of SAP BTP"), too narrow ("fix this one error"), or overlaps with an existing skill without reason.

Phase 3: Research and Verify

Load references/sap-domain-research.md.

1. Prefer official SAP sources for technical facts: SAP Help Portal, SAP Developers, SAP GitHub organisations, official API documentation, and release notes.
2. Distinguish official product behaviour, community convention, repository convention, and inference.
3. Record any version-sensitive assumptions.
4. Do not invent SAP endpoints, authorization objects, CDS entities, BTP service plans, destination properties, ADT commands, CAP APIs, Fiori annotations, or Integration Suite capabilities.
5. Stop and report unresolved conflicts between sources.

Phase 4: Design the Skill

Load references/skill-design.md.

1. Decide the responsibility boundary. One skill, one job.
2. Choose the operating modes the skill itself will expose (for example "read-only inspect" versus "write and activate").
3. Draft decision trees for the main branches of the workflow.
4. Choose defaults instead of listing many equivalent alternatives.
5. Design an explicit output contract: what the agent will report at the end of a successful run and after each stop condition.
6. Classify the skill by risk. Load references/security-review.md for the risk taxonomy.

Phase 5: Generate the Skill Package

Load references/progressive-disclosure.md and references/frontmatter-and-triggering.md.

1. Create the directory:

   skills/<slug>/
   ├── SKILL.md
   ├── README.md
   ├── references/
   ├── assets/
   └── scripts/
   

2. Write frontmatter first. Required fields:

   ---
   name: <slug>
   description: >-
     <capability>. Use when <activation conditions>. Do not use for
     <important exclusions>.
   license: <license>
   compatibility: <runtime prerequisites>
   metadata:
     author: <name>
     version: "<version>"
     category: <category>
     repository: <owner/repo>
   ---
   

3. Keep SKILL.md focused. Target 300–450 lines. Hard limit 500 lines.

4. Move detailed technical documentation, command catalogues, and long procedures into focused reference files under references/.

5. Put reusable templates and static resources in assets/.

6. Put deterministic operations (validators, formatters, parsers) in scripts/. Load references/scripts-and-resources.md before adding any script.

7. Use relative links from the skill root. Avoid deeply nested reference chains.

Phase 6: Security Review

Load references/security-review.md.

Walk the skill through every category:

• Credentials and secrets.
• Network behaviour.
• Filesystem behaviour.
• Shell and subprocess behaviour.
• SAP-specific operational risks.
• Dependency and supply-chain review.
• Public-release review.

Reject the skill until each finding is either fixed or explicitly documented as accepted risk.

Phase 7: Validate

Load references/validation-and-evaluation.md.

Run the validator against the target skill:

python .\skills\sap-skills-creator\scripts\validate_skill.py `
  .\skills\<slug> `
  --repository-root .

The validator checks structure, frontmatter, size, links, and security heuristics. Read the human-readable output first, then rerun with --json if a machine-readable payload is needed:

python .\skills\sap-skills-creator\scripts\validate_skill.py `
  .\skills\<slug> `
  --repository-root . `
  --json

Exit codes:

• 0 — valid, no failures.
• 1 — validation failures.
• 2 — invalid invocation or internal error.

Treat every FAIL as blocking. Triage each WARN explicitly: fix, or document the reason it is intentional.

Phase 8: Evaluate Against Real Tasks

Load references/validation-and-evaluation.md.

Structural validation does not prove the skill activates correctly. Run a behavioural evaluation:

1. Craft at least three positive trigger prompts derived from real user intents.
2. Craft at least three negative trigger prompts (topics the skill should ignore).
3. Run each prompt through the AI client that will consume the skill.
4. Assess: trigger precision, instruction adherence, tool selection, safety behaviour, output correctness, failure reporting, and context efficiency.
5. Revise the description, structure, or references until the prompts activate the skill for positive cases and leave it dormant for negative cases.

At least one execute-review-revise cycle is mandatory. Record the results in assets/skill-review-report-template.md.

Phase 9: Integrate Into the Repository

Load references/repository-integration.md.

1. Confirm the skill lives at skills/<slug>/SKILL.md.

2. Update the root README.md skill catalog with a concise row.

3. Confirm the repository has a root LICENSE, SECURITY.md, and CONTRIBUTING.md where the convention requires them.

4. Add unit tests for any script under tests/.

5. Run local discovery to confirm the skill can be found:

   npx skills add . --list
   

6. Do not commit, push, tag, publish, or open GitHub issues.

Phase 10: Prepare Submission

Load references/sap-library-submission.md.

For SAP AI Skills Library preparation:

1. Fill in assets/sap-library-submission-template.md.
2. Verify the repository is public and the skill discovery command succeeds against the public URL.
3. Draft the registration issue body without submitting it.
4. Hand the draft to a maintainer for review.

Do not submit the registration form. Do not claim SAP approval, SAP certification, or SAP endorsement.

Output Contract

At the end of a successful run, report:

• Mode used (Create, Refactor, Audit, Repository integration, Submission preparation).
• Skill slug and directory.
• Files created, modified, or removed with paths.
• Root files touched (typically README.md).
• Frontmatter summary (name, description length, compatibility length, metadata keys).
• Validator result summary (PASS / WARN / FAIL counts).
• Behavioural evaluation summary (positive prompts, negative prompts, activation results).
• Outstanding blockers, warnings, and informational findings, kept separate.
• Suggested but unexecuted next steps (commit, submission, etc.).

Use assets/skill-review-report-template.md for structured reports.

Failure and Stop Conditions

Stop the workflow and report when:

• The user cannot produce a verified source of expertise.
• The scope stays broader than one coherent unit after clarification.
• The validator returns FAIL and the cause is not immediately fixable.
• A finding classified as Critical in the review report is unresolved.
• The user asks the skill to invent SAP APIs, publish automatically, or bypass human authorization for destructive operations.
• The user requests inclusion of secrets, real customer hostnames, or proprietary source code in a public skill without sanitization and authorization.

Never claim a skill is ready, secure, SAP-certified, or SAP-approved on behalf of any project or organization.

Bundled Resources

• references/discovery-and-scoping.md
• references/skill-design.md
• references/frontmatter-and-triggering.md
• references/progressive-disclosure.md
• references/sap-domain-research.md
• references/security-review.md
• references/scripts-and-resources.md
• references/validation-and-evaluation.md
• references/repository-integration.md
• references/sap-library-submission.md
• references/review-checklists.md
• assets/skill-requirements-template.md
• assets/skill-review-report-template.md
• assets/sap-library-submission-template.md
• scripts/validate_skill.py

Completion Checklist

Before reporting a skill complete, verify:

• Mode used is explicit in the report.
• SKILL.md frontmatter passes structural validation.
• SKILL.md is between 300 and 450 lines (hard limit 500).
• Every referenced file exists and is linked from SKILL.md or from another linked file.
• The security review categories were walked and the findings are recorded.
• The validator was executed and its report was retained.
• At least one execute-review-revise behavioural evaluation cycle was completed.
• Root repository files were updated only where necessary.
• No secrets, customer data, or proprietary code were introduced.
• No commit, push, tag, publish, or issue creation was performed automatically.