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Skill Base Template v1.3.0

This release improves the template's community and sponsorship configuration and strengthens the bootstrap instructions for transmitting goals and values and for confirming alignment with the user before a skill is built.

Highlights

  • Add documented sponsorship platform examples to .github/FUNDING.yml.
  • Enable Discussions and disable Projects and Wiki on the template repository.
  • Require a core-principles-and-decision-stance section in the generated AGENTS.md.
  • Add an alignment-confirmation step to the exploratory phase, before skill construction.
  • Gate construction on the confirmed design synthesis, with a matching must-follow rule in AGENTS.md.
  • Reframe the bootstrap instruction files to address the executing agent directly.
  • Distill more of the authoring and reasoning guidance into the bootstrap docs, including AGENTS.md and README shape, transport principles, and a questioning guide.

Why It Matters

The template now carries the community and sponsorship configuration it expects a generated repository to use, so the setup a new repository inherits is one the template itself runs.

The bootstrap guidance now requires every generated AGENTS.md to state the skill's core principles and a decision stance: surface findings as obstacles to the goal, weigh local context, and bring decisions to the user rather than acting alone or silently deferring. This is how a skill's goals and values reach future agents that must make local decisions, rather than leaving it to chance.

The exploratory phase previously moved from intake adequacy straight into construction. When the readiness decision rested on the agent's own inferences, the skill could start misaligned with the user's intent. The new alignment-confirmation step has the agent present its synthesized understanding for confirmation or correction before it builds, while staying clear of pushing design work back to the user.

The bootstrap instruction files now open by addressing the executing agent and its task rather than describing the template's origins. The first thing the agent reads orients it to what to do, which is how the instructions transmit their intent under partial reading and variable context.

The bootstrap docs also carry more distilled authoring guidance: a predictable shape and size target for the generated AGENTS.md, required elements and anti-patterns for the README, transport principles for why the rules hold across humans, agents, and tools, and a guide to asking high-value clarifying questions. The guidance is distilled in the template's own voice; the underlying sources are credited in docs/PROVENANCE.md.

Notes

Release tag: v1.3.0.

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