docs(contributing): make bundled integration skills the path for plugin maintainers - #456
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Greptile SummaryThe contribution guide now distinguishes community-shared skills and agents from bundled integration skills.
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…in maintainers Sharing a skill and contributing one are different acts, and the guide conflated them. A copied SKILL.md never updates; a bundled one is seeded automatically and reconciled on later releases, and where no bundled skill exists the agent falls back to introspecting the plugin's API at runtime. That makes the plugin's own maintainer the person best placed to write it, so spell out the path for them: where the file goes, the linkedPlugin key, CURATED_PLUGIN_INTEGRATIONS for a display name, and the shippedSkills.ts version history that later edits require. Show and tell keeps the low-friction lane for skills that were never going to ship bundled.
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Rewrites the skill guidance in CONTRIBUTING to separate two things the old text conflated: sharing a skill and contributing one.
A skill someone copies into their vault never updates. A bundled skill is seeded automatically and reconciled on later releases (
reconcileBundledSkill), so improvements reach vaults that already have it. And where no bundled skill exists for a plugin,seedIntegrationSkillfalls back to a generated template that asks the agent to introspect the plugin's API at runtime.That makes bundling the thing worth contributing, and the plugin's own maintainer the person best placed to do it — they're the ones who'd want to replace the introspection fallback with a real guide.
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metadata.linkedPluginkey,CURATED_PLUGIN_INTEGRATIONSfor a display name, and the point that auto-discovery already finds any plugin exposing anapi— the skill is what makes the agent good at using it.shippedSkills.tsversion-history requirement for later edits, since that's non-obvious and enforced bytest/skills/shippedSkillHistory.test.ts.descriptioncarries the weight) and asks authors to test that a skill stays quiet when it shouldn't fire.Note on the earlier version of this PR
This PR originally pointed skill contributions at a separate
s2b-dev/skillsrepository. That was the wrong call and has been dropped: a standalone repo can only offer manual copies, which is strictly worse than bundling for exactly the contributors it was meant to serve. The repo is being deleted; nothing external ever landed in it.How I tested it
Docs only, no code changed. Every path and claim checked against the source:
seedIntegrationSkill/reconcileBundledSkillinSkillsService.ts,CURATED_PLUGIN_INTEGRATIONSandpluginExposesApiinpluginIntegrations.ts, andtest/skills/shippedSkillHistory.test.tsfor the enforcement claim.AI assistance
Drafted with Claude Code; the maintainer reviewed every file.