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Teknium 38d3c49aaf refactor(skills): clean up bundled skill set + add environments: relevance gate (#39028)
* refactor(skills): clean up bundled skill set + add environments: relevance gate

Bundled skills cleanup pass plus a new offer-time relevance gate.

Removals (redundant / dead):
- spotify (covered by the spotify plugin's 7 native tools)
- linear (covered by `hermes mcp install linear`)
- kanban-codex-lane, debugging-hermes-tui-commands
- empty category markers: diagramming, gifs, inference-sh,
  mlops/training, mlops/vector-databases
- domain (stale orphan dup of optional/research/domain-intel)

Bundled -> optional:
- baoyu-article-illustrator, baoyu-comic, creative-ideation, pixel-art
- dspy, subagent-driven-development
- minecraft-modpack-server, pokemon-player
- hermes-s6-container-supervision (-> optional/devops)

Consolidation:
- webhook-subscriptions + native-mcp folded into the hermes-agent skill
  as references/webhooks.md + references/native-mcp.md with SKILL.md pointers
- writing-plans merged into plan (v2.0.0); related_skills + prose refs updated

New: environments: frontmatter gate (agent/skill_utils.skill_matches_environment)
- Offer-time relevance filter (kanban / docker / s6), parallel to platforms:.
- Wired into the 3 OFFER surfaces only (prompt_builder skills index,
  skills_tool.list_skills, skill_commands slash discovery).
- Explicit loads (skill_view, --skills preload) intentionally BYPASS it, so
  load-bearing force-loads like the kanban dispatcher's `--skills kanban-worker`
  always resolve. Verified via E2E.
- kanban-orchestrator/kanban-worker tagged environments: [kanban];
  hermes-s6-container-supervision tagged environments: [s6] + platforms: [linux].

Validation: 8/8 E2E gating assertions (incl force-load invariant);
442 targeted tests green (agent, skills_tool, skill_commands, kanban worker).

* docs: regenerate skill catalogs + pages for the bundled cleanup

Regenerated per-skill doc pages, catalogs, and sidebar to match the skill
moves/removals in the parent commit. Moved skills' pages relocate
bundled -> optional (history preserved); removed skills' pages deleted;
edited skills' pages refreshed (hermes-agent now embeds the webhook +
native-mcp reference pointers). zh-Hans i18n mirror: stale bundled pages
and catalog rows for moved/removed skills pruned (new optional translations
land via the translation pipeline).

* test: drop regression test for removed kanban-codex-lane skill

The kanban-codex-lane skill was removed in the bundled-skills cleanup;
its dedicated regression test read the now-deleted SKILL.md and failed
with FileNotFoundError on CI shard 6.
2026-06-04 06:11:22 -07:00

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Full Prompt Library

Extended constraint library beyond the core set in SKILL.md. Load these when the user wants more variety or a specific category.

Communication & Connection

Create a means of distribution: The project works when you can use what you made to give something to somebody else.

Make a way to communicate: The project works when you can hold a conversation with someone else using what you created. Not chat — something weirder.

Write a love letter: To a person, a programming language, a game, a place, a tool. On paper, in code, in music, in light. Mail it.

Mail chess / Asynchronous games: Something turn-based played with no time limit. No requirement to be there at the same time. The game happens in the gaps.

Twitch plays X: A group of people share control over something. Collective input, emergent behavior.

Screens & Interfaces

Something for your desktop: You spend a lot of time there. Spruce it up. A custom clock, a pet that lives in your terminal, a wallpaper that changes based on your git activity.

One screen, two screen, old screen, new screen: Take something you associate with one screen and put it on a very different one. DOOM on a smart fridge. A spreadsheet on a watch. A terminal in a painting.

Make a mirror: Something that reflects the viewer back at themselves. A website that shows your browsing history. A CLI that prints your git sins.

Philosophy & Concept

Code as koan, koan as code: What is the sound of one hand clapping? A program that answers a question it wasn't asked. A function that returns before it's called.

The useless tree: Make something useless. Deliberately, completely, beautifully useless. No utility. No purpose. No point. That's the point.

Artificial stupidity: Make fun of AI by showcasing its faults. Mistrain it. Lie to it. Build the opposite of what AI is supposed to be good at.

"I use technology in order to hate it properly": Make something inspired by the tension between loving and hating your tools.

The more things change, the more they stay the same: Reflect on time, difference, and similarity.

Transformation

Translate: Take something meant for one audience and make it understandable by another. A research paper as a children's book. An API as a board game. A song as an architecture diagram.

I mean, I GUESS you could store something that way: The project works when you can save and open something. Store data in DNS caches. Encode a novel in emoji. Write a file system on top of something that isn't a file system.

I mean, I GUESS those could be pixels: The project works when you can display an image. Render anything visual in a medium that wasn't meant for rendering.

Identity & Reflection

Make a self-portrait: Be yourself? Be fake? Be real? In code, in data, in sound, in a directory structure.

Make a pun: The stupider the better. Physical, digital, linguistic, visual. The project IS the joke.

Doors, walls, borders, barriers, boundaries: Things that intermediate two places: opening, closing, permeating, excluding, combining.

Scale & Repetition

Lists!: Itemizations, taxonomies, exhaustive recountings, iterations. This one. A list of list of lists.

Did you mean recursion? Did you mean recursion?

Animals: Lions, and tigers, and bears. Crab logic gates. Fish plays the stock market.

Cats: Where would the internet be without them.

Starting Points

An idea that comes from a book: Read something. Make something inspired by it.

Go to a museum: Project ensues.

NPC loot: What do you drop when you die? What do you take on your journey? Build the item.

Mythological objects and entities: Pandora's box, the ocarina of time, the palantir. Build the artifact.

69: Nice. Make something with the joke being the number 69.

Office Space printer scene: Capture the same energy. Channel the catharsis of destroying the thing that frustrates you.

Borges week: Something inspired by the Argentine. The library of babel. The map that is the territory.

Lights!: LED throwies, light installations, illuminated anything. Make something that glows.