Agent Skills 0.6.5 graduates the eval framework from opt-in to CI-enforced, hardens the validators, and kicks off an ecosystem-neutral pass so the skills stop assuming a JavaScript stack. Mostly a quality-and-infrastructure release on top of 0.6.4.
Highlights
- Eval gates are now trusted and enforced in CI (#381, @ZhiyaoWen999). The deterministic trigger-and-routing tier runs on every push with a rank-1 floor, the gates are ratcheted so routing quality can only move up, and dialogue evals are supported for skills whose deliverable is the conversation itself rather than a file edit. The framework shipped in 0.6.4; this is where it starts actually guarding the pack.
- Validators hardened (#387/#405, @kevglynn; #379, @nucliweb). The skill validator no longer trips over headings inside fenced code blocks or negated trigger phrases, and the lint rules were extracted into
scripts/lib/skill-lint.jswith their own tests so the rules are unit-tested instead of buried in the runner. - Ecosystem-neutral pass, Phase 1 (#419, @ayobamiseun).
test-driven-developmentno longer hardcodesnpm; it describes the repository's own test command with one concrete example, so the guidance reads correctly on Python, Go, Rust, and the rest. This is the first skill in a broader pass.
Skills and content
- ADR skill now detects and matches an existing ADR convention before creating a new one, and stays repository-local and forge-agnostic (#402, @CybotTM).
- Fixed the orchestration-patterns reference mapping in the getting-started docs so the links resolve (#407, @Quantum22).
Tooling and fixes
fix(hooks): opt-in hook paths are now quoted in the setup docs, so installs no longer break on paths with spaces (#420, @jagadishs-oss).fix(hooks): the simplify-ignore-test hook asserts its no-jq guard instead of failing whenjqis absent (#406, @youjinch).
Docs
- The shared
references/design is now documented with its rationale, and the skill-localreferences/directory is described as the emerging convention for self-contained skills (#401, @kevglynn; #236, @nucliweb; closes #329). - New skill-gap issue form so people can report guidance that doesn't match reality in a structured way (#418, @Alex7develop).
- README spacing and copy tidy-ups (#107, @ZuoFuhong).
Thanks
Thanks to everyone who contributed this release: @ZhiyaoWen999, @nucliweb, @kevglynn, @ayobamiseun, @CybotTM, @Quantum22, @jagadishs-oss, @youjinch, @Alex7develop, and @ZuoFuhong.
Full Changelog: 0.6.4...0.6.5