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Skills

Skills extend the capabilities of CoStrict CLI through custom commands and workflows.

Overview​

Skills are reusable command templates that encapsulate common workflows and best practices.

Skill File Placement​

Create a folder for each skill name and place a SKILL.md in it. CoStrict will search these locations:

● Project configuration: .costrict/skills/<name>/SKILL.md

● Global configuration: ~/.config/costrict/skills/<name>/SKILL.md

● Project Claude compatible: .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md

● Global Claude compatible: ~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md

Writing Example​

In the project root directory, create .costrict/skills/git-release/SKILL.md as follows:

---
name: git-release
description: Create consistent releases and changelogs
---

## What I do

- Draft release notes from merged PRs
- Propose a version bump
- Provide a copy-pasteable `gh release create` command

## When to use me

Use this when you are preparing a tagged release.
Ask clarifying questions if the target versioning scheme is unclear.

Note:

  • After writing, restart the CLI program to load Skills.

  • name requirements:

● Length of 1-64 characters ● Composed of lowercase alphanumeric characters, separated by single hyphens ● Cannot start or end with - ● Must not contain consecutive -- ● Match the directory name containing SKILL.md

Equivalent regular expression:

^[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$

description must be 1-1024 characters. Make sure it's specific enough for the agent to select correctly.

Testing​

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