Skill Discovery Contract

Canonical rules for scanning, inventorying, and rendering GSD skills.

Root Categories

Project Roots

Scan these roots relative to the project root:

• .claude/skills/
• .agents/skills/
• .cursor/skills/
• .github/skills/
• ./.codex/skills/

These roots are used for project-specific skills and for the project CLAUDE.md skills section.

Managed Global Roots

Scan these roots relative to the user home directory:

• ~/.claude/skills/
• ~/.codex/skills/

These roots are used for managed runtime installs and inventory reporting.

Deprecated Import-Only Root

• ~/.claude/get-shit-done/skills/

This root is kept for legacy migration only. Inventory code may report it, but new installs should not write here.

Legacy Claude Commands

• ~/.claude/commands/gsd/

This is not a skills root. Discovery code only checks whether it exists so inventory can report legacy Claude installs.

Normalization Rules

• Scan only subdirectories that contain SKILL.md.
• Read name and description from YAML frontmatter.
• Use the directory name when name is missing.
• Extract trigger hints from body lines that match TRIGGER when: ....
• Treat gsd-* directories as installed framework skills.
• Treat ~/.claude/get-shit-done/skills/ entries as deprecated/import-only.
• Treat ~/.claude/commands/gsd/ as legacy command installation metadata, not skills.

Scanner Behavior

sdk/src/query/skills.ts

• Returns a de-duplicated list of discovered skill names.
• Scans project roots plus managed global roots.
• Does not scan the deprecated import-only root.

get-shit-done/bin/lib/profile-output.cjs

• Builds the project CLAUDE.md skills section.
• Scans project roots only.
• Skips gsd-* directories so the project section stays focused on user/project skills.
• Adds .codex/skills/ to the project discovery set.

get-shit-done/bin/lib/init.cjs

• Generates the skill inventory object for skill-manifest.
• Reports skills, roots, installation, and counts.
• Marks gsd_skills_installed when any discovered skill name starts with gsd-.
• Marks legacy_claude_commands_installed when ~/.claude/commands/gsd/ contains .md command files.

Inventory Shape

skill-manifest returns a JSON object with:

• skills: normalized skill entries
• roots: the canonical roots that were checked
• installation: summary booleans for installed GSD skills and legacy Claude commands
• counts: small inventory counts for downstream consumers

Each skill entry includes:

• name
• description
• triggers
• path
• file_path
• root
• scope
• installed
• deprecated