skill-creatorlisted

# Skill Creator Every skill and every agent in this workspace is written through this file, and repaired through it. A skill is a slot in a registry that every session pays for before the user asks anything, so the bar is not "is this useful" but "does this earn its place against everything already here". **Writing one and healing one are the same skill.** They were two until 5 Sep 2026, and the split cost more than it bought: both wrote against the same floor, each opened by routing to the other, and the closing step of one was a command in the other. One file, one log, one CLI. Three principles carry the rest. - **Extraction, not design.** A skill comes out of work already done twice. That run is the spec and its transcript is the first draft. A planning session that asks what skills should exist produces files nobody triggers. The same rule governs a repair: a learning comes out of a failure that cost real time, not out of a review of what a file might say better. - **The floor is shared.** [references/skill-floor.md](references/skill-floor.md) holds the quality bar, and `ai-cleaner` writes against the same one. A standard restated in three places is three standards by the end of the quarter. - **Verified by outcome in a cleared session.** A skill is proven by running the task again with the context cleared, not by reading the file back. Everything else is a proxy, and a heal that works only in the session that wrote it has not landed. ## The two paths