Yao Meta Skill

When to Use

Use when this workflow matches the user request: Create, refactor, evaluate, and package agent skills from workflows, prompts, transcripts, docs, or notes. Use for skill creation, reusable workflow packaging, skill improvement, evals, and team-ready distribution.

Source: yaojingang/yao-meta-skill (MIT).

Router Rules

• Route by frontmatter description.
• Keep SKILL.md lean; put guidance in references/, logic in scripts/, and evidence in reports/.
• Use the lightest reliable process.

Modes

• Scaffold: exploratory/personal. Production: team reuse. Library: shared infrastructure. Governed: high-trust, policy-sensitive, or release-critical.
• Rules: Method, Operating Modes, Resource Boundaries.

Compact Workflow

1. For one-off/no reusable process: Do not create a skill; near-neighbor; require repeated use + reusable output contract.
2. Capture job, output, exclusions, constraints, standards, and the lightest fit.
3. Scan references in order: external benchmark, user source, local fit; surface only uncertainty or conflict.
4. Write description early, test route quality, then add only earned folders and gates.
5. Add output-risk, artifact-design, prompt-quality, system-model, and next directions only when useful.

Playbooks: Method, Intent, Skill IR, Output Eval, Review Studio.

Skill OS 2.0 Gates

For production, library, governed, or team-distributed work, run Skill IR, target compiler, trigger + output eval, Skill Atlas, conformance, trust, registry/package/install, upgrade, drift, waiver, and Review Studio gates before release.

Governed Package Boundary

For file-backed, release-critical, or governed packages, name input_files as file-backed fixture evidence; include owner, review cadence, input_files, output contract, rollback boundary; require trust report and reports/output_quality_scorecard.md; mark unavailable telemetry, approvals, metrics, or benchmarks as missing evidence; do not fabricate evidence.

Preserve audit labels literally when they apply: file-backed fixture, input_files, output contract, rollback boundary, trust report, reports/output_quality_scorecard.md, missing evidence.

First-Turn Style

• Start from the user's work/outcome before structure.
• Ask only 2-3 key questions unless enough detail exists.
• In Chinese, sound soft and companion-like; use Intent Dialogue.

Output Contract

Unless asked otherwise, produce SKILL.md, aligned agents/interface.yaml, justified assets, and a short summary of boundary, exclusions, gates, and next steps.

Reference Map

Primary: Method, Artifact Design, Systems Thinking, Governance, SkillOps Decision.

Limitations

• Requires the upstream tool, account, API key, or local setup when the workflow names one.
• Does not authorize destructive, production, paid, or external-message actions without explicit user approval.
• Validate generated artifacts or recommendations against the user's real sources before treating them as final.