feat: add generic authoring skill

[devkade]

Summary

• Adds a bundled issue-pr-revision-authoring skill with reusable issue, PR body, and revision-comment authoring guidance.
• Adds concise templates for execution-design issues, current-state tracker issues, evidence-driven investigation issues, engineering-report PR bodies, and current-head revision comments.
• Adds resource-discovery regression coverage that verifies the bundled skill/template contract and guards against repo-specific policy leakage.

Linked issue

Closes #126

Problem

Ilchul did not yet carry a generic authoring contract for GitHub issues, PR bodies, and review revision comments. Existing guidance could be scattered across workflow-specific surfaces, which makes it easy to mix reusable writing standards with repo-specific reviewer, branch, merge, authority, or chat-lane policy.

Options considered

1. Add only templates — small, but misses when/how guidance and genericity boundaries.
2. Add only SKILL.md — explains the contract, but leaves users without reusable document shapes.
3. Add SKILL.md plus bundled templates — slightly larger, but gives both selection guidance and copyable structures.

Selected approach: option 3, kept under the review-size target with concise templates.

Changes

Bundled skill — skills/issue-pr-revision-authoring/SKILL.md

• Defines the execution-design authoring contract.
• Explains three issue authoring modes: execution-design, current-state tracker, and evidence-driven investigation.
• Defines PR bodies as engineering reports, not changelogs.
• Defines revision comments as current-head feedback-response notes.
• Keeps reviewer bots, merge gates, deployment rules, GitHub App internals, authority semantics, and chat-lane policy out of scope.

Templates — skills/issue-pr-revision-authoring/templates/

• Adds issue.md with acceptance criteria, verification plan, implementation details, and investigation addendum sections.
• Adds pr-body.md with linked issue, problem/defect split, changes, design decisions, tests, verification, acceptance criteria, and risks/follow-up.
• Adds revision-comment.md with current-head SHA, findings addressed, changed files, verification, docs/release notes, remaining items, and ready-for-review statement.

Regression test — test/resource-discovery.test.ts

• Verifies the new bundled skill and all three templates exist and include the expected authoring sections.
• Guards against specific repo/policy leakage strings in the generic skill.

Why this fixes it

The new bundled skill provides one portable authoring contract while preserving separation between generic writing standards and repository-specific workflow policy.

QA / Verification

• npm ci — pass, installed dependencies; 0 vulnerabilities.
• npm run verify — pass; 396 tests, 385 pass, 11 skipped; tsc, tsc --noUnusedLocals --noUnusedParameters, and quality budgets exited 0. Existing quality budget result: code_smells warning remains non-failing.
• npx tsx --test test/resource-discovery.test.ts — pass, 4/4.
• npm run check — pass.
• npm run check:unused — pass.
• npm run quality:budgets — pass with existing non-failing code_smells warning.
• git diff --check — pass.
• Independent reviewer subagent — pass after removing repo-specific author: Ilchul metadata.

Anomalies observed

• npm test -- test/resource-discovery.test.ts runs the repo's full test/*.test.ts suite because of the package script shape.
• The test suite emits existing Node [DEP0205] module.register() deprecation warnings.
• Some npm/test flows temporarily changed src/cli/kapi-review-cli.ts file mode locally; that mode-only churn was reverted before commit and is not included in the PR.

Acceptance criteria

• Bundled issue-pr-revision-authoring skill added with SKILL.md.
• templates/issue.md, templates/pr-body.md, and templates/revision-comment.md added.
• PR template is named pr-body.md.
• Issue template supports execution-design, current-state tracker, and evidence-driven investigation modes.
• PR body template includes problem/defect split, changes by surface, design decisions, tests, verification, acceptance criteria, and risks/follow-up.
• Revision template includes current-head SHA, findings addressed, changed files, verification, docs/release notes, remaining items, and ready-for-review statement.
• Generic skill excludes repo-specific review/merge/authority policy.

Risks / Follow-up

• None identified.

[devkade]

@kapi-agent review

Revision explanation for current head aa4266bcac349890bbed11f5532a4731ea2cb5e3:

What changed:

• Added the generic issue-pr-revision-authoring bundled skill and three templates for issues, PR bodies, and revision comments.
• Added regression coverage in test/resource-discovery.test.ts for required sections and genericity boundaries.

Why this closes the prior feedback:

• Prior blocking issue: no existing Ilchul bundled skill carried this reusable issue/PR/revision authoring contract.
• Resolution: current head adds the bundled skill/templates while excluding repo-specific reviewer, merge, authority, and chat-lane policy; the repo-specific author: Ilchul metadata was removed after independent review.

Verification:

• npm ci passed with 0 vulnerabilities.
• npm run verify passed.
• npx tsx --test test/resource-discovery.test.ts passed 4/4.
• npm run check passed.
• npm run check:unused passed.
• npm run quality:budgets passed with the existing non-failing code_smells warning.
• git diff --check passed.
• Independent reviewer subagent passed after the metadata fix.

[devkade]

@kapi-agent review

Revision explanation for current head aa4266bcac349890bbed11f5532a4731ea2cb5e3:

What changed:

• Enabled kapi-agent review processing for devkade/ilchul in the local reviewer bot config after confirming the PR was merge-blocked by missing formal review/check.
• Current head already contains the generic issue-pr-revision-authoring bundled skill, templates, and regression coverage.

Why this closes the prior feedback:

• Prior blocking issue: PR feat: add generic authoring skill #127 had no formal current-head kapi-agent review and no kapi-agent/review check because the reviewer bot was configured only for devkade/kapi and devkade/clawhip.
• Resolution: devkade/ilchul is now included in the reviewer bot enabled repos, and this comment requests review for the unchanged current head.

Verification:

• curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:8787/health confirmed enabled_repos includes devkade/ilchul.
• npm run verify passed for the PR head before opening the PR.
• npx tsx --test test/resource-discovery.test.ts passed 4/4 after final edits.
• git diff --check passed.
• Independent reviewer subagent passed after the metadata fix.

[kapi-agent]

kapi-agent review

Verdict: APPROVE

Final approval summary

Review journey

The original goal was to add a reusable bundled authoring contract for GitHub issues, PR bodies, and revision comments. The semantic scope is limited to generic writing guidance and templates, not repository-specific reviewer, merge, branch, authority, bot, or chat-lane policy. There were no prior kapi-agent blocking findings on this PR head; the author nevertheless provided a current-head revision explanation.

What changed

This PR adds:

• skills/issue-pr-revision-authoring/SKILL.md
• skills/issue-pr-revision-authoring/templates/issue.md
• skills/issue-pr-revision-authoring/templates/pr-body.md
• skills/issue-pr-revision-authoring/templates/revision-comment.md
• Regression coverage in test/resource-discovery.test.ts

Why this is correct

The new skill clearly separates reusable authoring standards from repo-specific workflow policy. The templates cover the advertised issue, PR-body, and revision-comment use cases, and the regression test verifies both required sections and absence of known policy-leakage strings.

Evidence

• Verifier gate: PASS — npm ci && npm run verify exited 0.
• Size gate: PASS — 191 changed lines, under the 200-line limit.
• Revision-explanation status: not required, found.
• Inspected local files and diff stat for the new skill, templates, and resource-discovery regression test.

Remaining risks and approval rationale

Remaining risks: low. This is documentation/template content plus targeted test coverage. Approval is justified because the PR stays within size policy, verifier passed, the scope is coherent, and no blocking correctness, safety, or workflow-contract issue remains.

Blocking issues

None.

Warnings / risks

• test/resource-discovery.test.ts checks representative required text and leakage strings, but it does not validate every possible future repo-specific phrase. This is acceptable for this scope.

Suggestions

• Consider adding a short usage example in a future PR if users need help choosing between the three issue modes.

Looks good

• The skill explicitly excludes reviewer bots, merge gates, deployment policy, webhook behavior, and authority semantics.
• The PR-body template correctly frames PRs as engineering reports rather than changelogs.
• The revision-comment template requires current-head SHA, addressed findings, verification, and readiness evidence.
• Regression coverage protects the core contract and genericity boundary.

Verification notes

Verifier gate status: PASS — npm ci && npm run verify exited 0.
Size gate status: PASS — 191 changed lines < 200.
Revision-explanation status: not required, found.
Local inspection covered the changed skill, templates, diff stat, and test additions.

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Engine: pi

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kapi-agent request lifecycle:

• Status: COMPLETED
• Head: aa4266bcac34
• Formal review event: APPROVE
• Review API status: 200
• Required check API status: 201

[kapi-agent]

kapi-agent review

Verdict: APPROVE

Final approval summary

Review journey

The original goal was to add a reusable bundled authoring contract for GitHub issues, PR bodies, and revision comments. The semantic scope is limited to generic writing guidance and templates, not repository-specific reviewer, merge, branch, authority, bot, or chat-lane policy. There were no prior kapi-agent blocking findings on this PR head; the author nevertheless provided a current-head revision explanation.

What changed

This PR adds:

• skills/issue-pr-revision-authoring/SKILL.md
• skills/issue-pr-revision-authoring/templates/issue.md
• skills/issue-pr-revision-authoring/templates/pr-body.md
• skills/issue-pr-revision-authoring/templates/revision-comment.md
• Regression coverage in test/resource-discovery.test.ts

Why this is correct

The new skill clearly separates reusable authoring standards from repo-specific workflow policy. The templates cover the advertised issue, PR-body, and revision-comment use cases, and the regression test verifies both required sections and absence of known policy-leakage strings.

Evidence

• Verifier gate: PASS — npm ci && npm run verify exited 0.
• Size gate: PASS — 191 changed lines, under the 200-line limit.
• Revision-explanation status: not required, found.
• Inspected local files and diff stat for the new skill, templates, and resource-discovery regression test.

Remaining risks and approval rationale

Remaining risks: low. This is documentation/template content plus targeted test coverage. Approval is justified because the PR stays within size policy, verifier passed, the scope is coherent, and no blocking correctness, safety, or workflow-contract issue remains.

Blocking issues

None.

Warnings / risks

• test/resource-discovery.test.ts checks representative required text and leakage strings, but it does not validate every possible future repo-specific phrase. This is acceptable for this scope.

Suggestions

• Consider adding a short usage example in a future PR if users need help choosing between the three issue modes.

Looks good

• The skill explicitly excludes reviewer bots, merge gates, deployment policy, webhook behavior, and authority semantics.
• The PR-body template correctly frames PRs as engineering reports rather than changelogs.
• The revision-comment template requires current-head SHA, addressed findings, verification, and readiness evidence.
• Regression coverage protects the core contract and genericity boundary.

Verification notes

Verifier gate status: PASS — npm ci && npm run verify exited 0.
Size gate status: PASS — 191 changed lines < 200.
Revision-explanation status: not required, found.
Local inspection covered the changed skill, templates, diff stat, and test additions.

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Engine: pi