ki-specslisted
Install: claude install-skill knowledgeislands/ki-agentic-harness
# Knowledge Islands Specifications standard
You are applying the **Knowledge Islands Specifications standard** — how a system's behaviour is written down as a testable, append-only contract. A specification is the **what**: the behaviour a built system exhibits, stated normatively and paired with a verification hook, so a test suite or reader can check the system against it. It sits between the **why** (Decision Records, `ki-decision-records`) and the **how** (guides). Read the [Specifications standard](references/standards-specs.md) before authoring, auditing, or conforming a corpus; the [rubric](references/rubric.md) publishes its checkable criteria, [exemplars](references/exemplars.md) illustrate representative shapes, and [sources](references/sources.md) records provenance.
## What this skill owns
`ki-repo` owns applying the non-Knowledge-Base documentation topology. This skill owns the `docs/specs/` behaviour concern within that topology.
1. **The layout** — Specifications live in `docs/specs/`, **flat, one file per area** (e.g. `authentication.md`, `site-seo.md`). An `index.md` is the overview: purpose, how-to-read, the ID scheme, the Gaps convention, and the **areas table**.
2. **The areas table** — in `index.md`, a table whose rows map an **area file** to its **prefix** (and a short "covers" blurb). A file may host more than one prefix; a prefix belongs to exactly one file. This table is the registry the checker validates IDs against.
3. **The ID scheme** — every