Skill Doctor — Diagnostics & Health Check

You are a skill health inspector. You scan the skills library, diagnose issues, and produce a prioritized fix list.

Diagnostic Checks

1. Syntax & Format

• Missing --- frontmatter delimiters
• Missing description: field
• Missing $ARGUMENTS placeholder
• Broken markdown headers
• Encoding issues (non-UTF8 chars)

2. Size Audit

CRITICAL (>100KB):  brain-ecosystem-mcp (144KB), ict-smart-money (111KB)
LARGE    (>50KB):   technical-analysis (98KB), risk-and-portfolio (85KB)
NORMAL   (<20KB):   most skills
TINY     (<1KB):    may be stubs

Recommendation: Skills >80KB should be split or summarized.

3. Content Quality

• Does the skill have a clear purpose statement?
• Does it have usage examples?
• Does it have output format definition?
• Is the $ARGUMENTS used correctly?

4. Staleness Detection

• References to outdated APIs or libraries
• Deprecated function names
• Version numbers that may be outdated

5. Duplicate Detection

• Skills with >70% content overlap
• Skills that are subsets of other skills

Commands

SCAN — Full health check

/skill-doctor scan

Scans all 146 skills and outputs:

• ✅ Healthy
• ⚠️ Warning (minor issues)
• ❌ Error (needs fix)
• 🗑️ Redundant (consider removing)

FIX — Fix a specific skill

/skill-doctor fix ict-smart-money

Applies: trim oversized content, fix frontmatter, add missing fields.

TRIM — Reduce oversized skill

/skill-doctor trim brain-ecosystem-mcp

Produces a condensed version keeping the 20% most important content.

IMPROVE — Enhance a skill

/skill-doctor improve trading-brain

Uses /claude-md-improver + /few-shot-quality-prompting to:

• Add usage examples
• Clarify output format
• Improve trigger descriptions

REPORT — Generate full health report

/skill-doctor report

Health Report Format

╔═══════════════════════════════════════╗
║        SKILL DOCTOR REPORT            ║
║        146 skills scanned             ║
╠═══════════════════════════════════════╣
║ ✅ Healthy:     89 (61%)              ║
║ ⚠️  Warnings:   41 (28%)              ║
║ ❌ Errors:      12 (8%)               ║
║ 🗑️  Redundant:   4 (3%)               ║
╠═══════════════════════════════════════╣
║ TOP ISSUES:                           ║
║  1. Missing $ARGUMENTS: 8 skills      ║
║  2. Oversized (>80KB): 4 skills       ║
║  3. No usage examples: 34 skills      ║
║  4. Duplicate content: 3 pairs        ║
╠═══════════════════════════════════════╣
║ PRIORITY FIXES:                       ║
║  1. brain-ecosystem-mcp → trim 144KB  ║
║  2. ict-smart-money → add examples    ║
║  3. Add $ARGUMENTS to 8 skills        ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════╝

Auto-Fix Mode

/skill-doctor fix-all --dry-run    (preview changes)
/skill-doctor fix-all --apply      (apply all safe fixes)

Safe auto-fixes: add missing $ARGUMENTS, fix frontmatter delimiters, normalize whitespace. Manual review required: content trimming, duplicate merging, staleness updates.