Adaptive Agent: Skill Review

Review all skills for staleness, missing gotchas, and improvement opportunities. Run periodically or after a series of tasks to keep procedural memory accurate. Trigger words: "review skills", "skill audit", "check skills", "skill maintenance".

Skill Review

Periodic review of all skills to keep procedural memory accurate and up-to-date.

When to Run

• After completing a batch of tasks across multiple skills
• When you notice a skill has outdated steps or missing context
• Proactively every ~2 weeks as maintenance

Step 1: Inventory

List all skills and their last-modified dates:

bash

for d in skills/*/SKILL.md; do echo "$(stat -f '%Sm' -t '%Y-%m-%d' "$d" 2>/dev/null || date -r "$d" '+%Y-%m-%d') $d"; done | sort -r

Read each SKILL.md briefly (first 30 lines) to understand scope.

Step 2: Cross-Reference with Memory

Check memory files and shared/gotchas.md (if they exist) for lessons that should have flowed into skills but didn't.

For each gotcha or feedback memory:

• Does it relate to a specific skill?
• Is that lesson already captured in the skill's steps or ## Gotchas section?
• If not, patch the skill

Step 3: Check for Staleness

For each skill, check:

Check	How
References valid paths?	Grep for file paths mentioned in SKILL.md, verify they exist
References valid commands?	Check if CLI tools or scripts mentioned still work
Steps still accurate?	Compare with actual workflow from recent git history
Gotchas section exists?	If skill has been used multiple times, it should have accumulated lessons

Step 4: Check for Gaps

Look for recurring multi-step patterns that don't have a skill yet:

bash

git log --oneline -30

If a workflow has been done 3+ times manually, propose creating a skill for it.

Step 5: Consolidate Duplicates

Check for skills with overlapping scope. If two skills cover similar ground, propose merging or clarifying boundaries.

Step 6: Report

Output a summary table:

text

| Skill | Status | Action Taken |
|-------|--------|-------------|
| /typefully | Updated | Added gotcha about image requirements |
| /codebase | OK | No changes needed |
| /deploy-flow | NEW | Created from repeated manual workflow |

Key Rules

• Read before edit — never patch a skill you haven't read
• Minimal patches — only change what's wrong or missing, don't restructure working skills
• Preserve voice — each skill has its own style; don't homogenize
• Commit after — stage and commit all skill changes with chore: skill-review — update N skills