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Summary

Zero-to-merged path for landing a first working skill in the maintainer-education stream. Covers:

  • How skills differ from traditional code (probabilistic, eval-based)
  • Step 0–6 from scaffold to merged PR
  • Eval suite requirement with fixture structure
  • Common first-time mistakes (executes-not-proposes, baked project names, single happy-path fixture, skipping the validator)
  • Cross-link to write-skill authoring reference (the existing skill for contributors who already know the shape)
  • Updates the docs/education/README.md index with a live link
  • Adds education/ to docs/index.md "Where to go next" table

Generated-by: Claude (Opus 4.7)

Type of change

  • Skill change (.claude/skills/<name>/) — eval fixtures updated below
  • Tool / bridge contract (tools/<system>/*.md)
  • Python package (tools/*/ with pyproject.toml)
  • Groovy reference impl
  • Cross-cutting (RFC, AGENTS.md, sandbox, privacy-LLM)
  • Documentation (docs/, README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md)
  • Project template (projects/_template/)
  • CI / dev loop (prek, workflows, validators)
  • Other:

Test plan

  • prek run --all-files passes
  • For Python packages touched: uv run pytest / ruff check / mypy passes
  • For Groovy bridges touched: command-line invocation tested end-to-end
  • For skill changes: eval suite passes for the affected skill
    (PYTHONPATH=tools/skill-evals/src python3 -m skill_evals.runner tools/skill-evals/evals/<skill>/)
  • For skill behaviour changes: a new or updated eval fixture is included in this PR
    (a regression test for the bug fixed / the behaviour added — see CONTRIBUTING.md)
  • Other:

Zero-to-merged path for landing a first working skill in the
maintainer-education stream. Covers:
- How skills differ from traditional code (probabilistic, eval-based)
- Step 0–6 from scaffold to merged PR
- Eval suite requirement with fixture structure
- Common first-time mistakes (executes-not-proposes, baked project
  names, single happy-path fixture, skipping the validator)
- Cross-link to write-skill authoring reference (the existing skill
  for contributors who already know the shape)
- Updates the docs/education/README.md index with a live link
- Adds education/ to docs/index.md "Where to go next" table

Generated-by: Claude (Opus 4.7)
@justinmclean justinmclean self-assigned this Jul 3, 2026
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