Scan repo for skill creation opportunities and establish skill lifecycle management

[jeremyeder]

Summary

Scan the MCP repo for repetitive developer workflows and operations that could be packaged as Claude Code skills. Align with the skill lifecycle framework being established across all ACP repos.

Skill Audit: What to Scan For

Examine MCP server development workflows for skill opportunities:

• Server scaffolding: Creating new MCP server definitions, tool registrations
• Tool development: Adding new MCP tools, input schema definitions, handler implementation
• Testing: MCP tool testing patterns, integration test setup, mock server creation
• Debugging: Server connection diagnostics, tool invocation tracing, error analysis
• Documentation: Tool documentation generation, capability manifests
• Deployment: Server packaging, configuration management, version publishing
• Migration: Updating tools when MCP spec evolves, schema migrations

Skill Lifecycle Framework

Adopt the cross-repo lifecycle standard being defined in ambient-code/platform:

• Versioning: Semantic versioning in skill frontmatter
• Lifecycle states: alpha → beta → stable → maintenance → deprecated
• Health tracking: Usage metrics, staleness detection
• Deprecation: Explicit deprecated field with replacement pointers

Companion Issues

• platform — primary lifecycle framework definition
• workflows — workflow-specific skill opportunities

Acceptance Criteria

• Audit complete: list of candidate skills with priority ranking
• Skill lifecycle frontmatter adopted (version, status fields)
• At least 1 new skill created from audit findings
• Lifecycle alignment confirmed with platform and workflows repos

[jeremyeder]

Companion issues:

• Scan repo for skill creation opportunities and establish skill lifecycle management platform#635
• Scan repo for skill creation opportunities and establish skill lifecycle management workflows#43