> For AI agents: the complete documentation index is available at /llms.txt, the full documentation bundle is available at /llms-full.txt.

# Codifying and enforcing your skill standards

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**Takeaway**
Keep poor-quality skills out of your repository. Set the bar for what "good" means, then gate it in CI so skills that fall short do not get merged.

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When a team shares skills, quality stops being a personal matter. A weak skill that one person tolerates becomes everyone's problem once it is in the shared repository, shaping how every agent on the team behaves. This section is about holding a quality line automatically, so you do not depend on everyone remembering to check.

There are two parts to it:

- **Enforce code invariants.** Use verifiers for binary, observable facts about committed files that a linter cannot express. See [Verifiers overview](/codifying-and-enforcing/verifiers-overview.md) and [Verify agent changes in CI](/codifying-and-enforcing/verify-agent-changes-in-ci.md).
- **Gate on a review score.** Run a review in CI and fail the build when a skill scores below your bar, so substandard skills never merge. See [Gate skill quality in CI](/codifying-and-enforcing/gate-skill-quality-in-ci.md).
- **Define your own bar.** The default rubric scores against general best practices. Fork it to encode what your organisation cares about, and apply it to every review. See [Define your own quality standards](/codifying-and-enforcing/define-your-own-quality-standards.md).

This section covers protecting a repository from low-quality skills. It does not cover managing your wider skill estate, surveying what is installed across your organisation, or org-level policy; those are separate capabilities.

## Next

- [Verifiers overview](/codifying-and-enforcing/verifiers-overview.md) - decide whether a verifier is the right way to enforce a standard.
- [Verify agent changes in CI](/codifying-and-enforcing/verify-agent-changes-in-ci.md) - write, calibrate, and run a verifier on pull requests.
- [Gate skill quality in CI](/codifying-and-enforcing/gate-skill-quality-in-ci.md) - run reviews on pull requests and block merges below your threshold.
- [Define your own quality standards](/codifying-and-enforcing/define-your-own-quality-standards.md) - build a custom rubric and apply it to every review.