Governance Enforcement

Quick Index (Action-Routed)

Read First (All Actions)

1. Mission
2. Scope Boundary
3. Trigger Rule

Action Modules (Read As Needed)

1. Running enforcement commands:

• Primary Tooling
• Enforcement Workflow

1. Diagnosing failures:

• Required Validation Targets
• Failure Handling

Output

1. Output Contract

Mission

Turn governance policy into deterministic machine-enforced checks.

Scope Boundary

This skill is tooling/enforcement only.

Use Skill Governance for:

1. risk scoring
2. mode selection
3. gate policy decisions

Trigger Rule

Use this skill when:

1. generating governance artifacts
2. validating artifact readiness
3. enforcing governance/skill policy in CI
4. debugging governance check failures

Primary Tooling

1. skills/skill-governance/scripts/generate_governance_artifact.py
2. skills/skill-governance/scripts/validate_governance_artifact.py
3. skills/skill-governance/scripts/enforce_governance_ci.py
4. skills/skill-governance/scripts/validate_skill_policy.py
5. skills/skill-governance/scripts/validate_skill_order_sync.py
6. .github/workflows/skills-governance-ci.yml (active repository workflow)
7. skills/docs/ci/skills-governance-ci.yml (copyable workflow template)

Enforcement Workflow

1. generate artifact at task start with required intake/startup fields
2. update gate statuses during execution
3. validate artifact before release recommendation
4. validate skill ordering sync (SKILL-MAP.md vs docs/skill-index.md)
5. run CI enforcement for changed governance scope
6. resolve failures with precise remediation
7. run validator regression tests for script changes

Required Validation Targets

1. AGENTS.md policy snippets
2. required skill snippet presence
3. user-instructions.md schema/status/timestamp/evidence rules
4. governance JSON/MD pairing
5. startup declaration completeness
6. project-index consistency checks
7. skill-catalog consistency checks (*/SKILL.md vs SKILL-MAP.md vs docs/skill-index.md)
8. governed-path scope checks (skills/**, .codex/skills/**, docs/governance/**, docs/project-index.md, AGENTS.md, .github/workflows/**)
9. governed artifact quizme state checks (quizme_mode, option booleans, implied confirmation for recording, and required quizme-mode startup declaration when active)

Regression Test Command

Run after governance-script changes:

python3 -m unittest discover -s skills/skill-governance/tests -p 'test_*.py' -v

Failure Handling

If enforcement fails:

1. report exact failing condition and file
2. classify failure type (schema, policy, artifact, staleness, gate-state)
3. propose minimal corrective patch
4. rerun targeted validator first, then full enforcement

Output Contract

When applying this skill, provide:

1. commands run
2. pass/fail summary per validator
3. failing checks and remediations
4. final enforcement state

Related Skills

• Skill Governance: governance policy and risk logic.
• Doc Maintenance: policy artifact updates after enforcement changes.
• File Maintenance: lifecycle accuracy checks for policy and operational artifacts.