skills_cli.py DOX

Purpose

• Own the skills_cli.py helper module.
• This module provides command-line skill listing, search, validation, and creation helpers.
• Keep this file-level DOX profile synchronized with skills_cli.py because this directory is intentionally flat.

Ownership

• skills_cli.py owns the runtime implementation.
• skills_cli.py.dox.md owns durable notes about responsibilities, contracts, side effects, and verification for that implementation.
• Reuses helpers.skills.Skill rather than maintaining a CLI-specific model.
• Top-level functions:
• get_skills_dirs() -> list[Path]: Get all skill directories
• parse_skill_file(skill_path: Path) -> Skill | None: Parse a SKILL.md file and return a Skill object
• list_skills() -> list[Skill]: List all available skills
• find_skill(name: str) -> Skill | None: Find a skill by name
• search_skills(query: str) -> list[Skill]: Search skills by name, description, or tags
• validate_skill(skill: Skill) -> list[str]: Validate a skill and return list of issues
• create_skill(name: str, description: str=..., author: str=...) -> Path: Create a new skill from template
• print_skill_table(skills: list[Skill]): Print skills in a formatted table
• main()

Runtime Contracts

• Helper modules own reusable framework APIs and must preserve public callers unless all callers, tests, and docs are updated together.
• Update this file whenever public functions, classes, persistence behavior, path/security assumptions, side effects, or cross-module contracts change.
• Skill discovery, parsing, search, and validation delegate to helpers.skills so CLI behavior matches the runtime contract.
• CLI lookup disables eager validation so the validate command can report incomplete metadata through the canonical validator.
• Created skills use the canonical triggers frontmatter field.
• Observed side-effect areas: filesystem reads, filesystem writes, settings/state persistence, secret handling.
• Imported dependency areas include: argparse, helpers, pathlib, sys.

Key Concepts

• Important called helpers/classes observed in the source: skills.get_skill_roots, skills.skill_from_markdown, skills.list_skills, skills.find_skill, skills.search_skills, skills.validate_skill, Path, custom_dir.mkdir, skill_dir.exists, skill_dir.mkdir, skill_file.write_text, readme.write_text, argparse.ArgumentParser, parser.add_subparsers, subparsers.add_parser.
• Keep request/response, tool, or helper semantics documented here at the same time as source changes.

Work Guidance

• Preserve public helper APIs used by core code and plugins unless every caller is updated.
• Keep path, auth, secret, persistence, network, and subprocess behavior explicit and bounded.
• Prefer adding cohesive helper functions here only when behavior is reused across modules.

Verification

• Run targeted tests for changed helper behavior; run security regressions for auth, filesystem, WebSocket, tunnel, upload, or secret-handling helpers.
• tests/test_skills_cli.py verifies that creation, parsing, discovery, lookup, search, and validation use the runtime skill contract.

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