What this does

Introduces a mechanism to pull skills / skill-families from trusted external organizations and repositories, so a skill can live in another repo — a GitHub folder, an SVN/dist archive, or a git tag/branch — yet be adopted exactly like an in-tree skill: same magpie- symlink relay, same override layer, same eval binding. Where a skill directory would sit, a skills/<name>/source.md redirect pointer names a pinned, verified source the adopter has explicitly vouched for; the skill (with its evals and tests) is fetched into the gitignored snapshot and wired in.

This is Phase A — the design, the principle change, the formats, and the validator guardrails. It does not yet include the /magpie-setup fetch/lock/symlink wiring (that is Phase B; see below).

The one principle change — §13

PRINCIPLES.md §13 previously said catalogs may exist "for discovery, never for installation." This PR narrows that: installation is permitted only from a trusted source — an external org/repo the adopter has vouched for by committing its pin (method + URL + ref + verification anchor). Untrusted external sources, and the adapter/organization indexes, stay discovery-only. A trusted install obeys the same snapshot-plus-pin discipline the framework already uses for itself (gitignored snapshot, committed lock, verified deliberate fetch, no submodules, no unpinned/unverified auto-fetch).

Contents

• docs/rfcs/RFC-AI-0006.md — the design: trust model + threat model.
• docs/skill-sources/ — the source-descriptor and source.md pointer formats, plus a skills discovery registry (the skills counterpart to the adapter registry).
• Three-layer trust: framework discovery registry → org-curated organizations/<org>/skill-sources.md → the adopter install gate <project-config>/skill-sources.md (nothing fetches unless listed there — final trust stays with the adopter).
• skill-and-tool-validator now recognizes source.md pointer dirs (validates that source:/organization: resolve; suppresses the spurious eval-coverage advisory) and validates source descriptors. 13 new tests; full suite green.
• Wired into extending.md, organizations/README, README, AGENTS.md, docs/index, and the org/project templates.

Phase B (follow-up, not in this PR)

• The /magpie-setup skill-sources sub-action + .apache-magpie.sources.lock pair, folded into adopt / upgrade / verify (fetch, verify, pin, symlink, drift-detect).
• A worked example pulled end-to-end.
• A way for the source repos themselves to run the same kinds of evals and tests we run in Magpie, so a pulled skill is verifiable at its home.

Notes for review

Because it moves a bright line in PRINCIPLES.md, this is deliberately shaped as an RFC-first checkpoint — the mechanism is fully specified and enforced, but the invasive setup-skill surgery is held for Phase B so the trust model and §13 amendment can be reviewed first.