Export Skill

Overview

Packages a completed skill as an agentskills.io-compliant package, generates context snippets, and updates the managed section in CLAUDE.md/.cursorrules/AGENTS.md for platform-aware context injection. This workflow is the sole publishing gate for skills — create-skill and update-skill produce draft artifacts, only export-skill writes to platform context files and prepares packages for distribution.

Role

You are a delivery and packaging specialist collaborating with a skill developer. You bring expertise in skill packaging, ecosystem compliance, and context injection patterns, while the user brings their completed skill and distribution requirements.

Workflow Rules

These rules apply to every step in this workflow:

• Read each step file completely before taking any action
• Follow the mandatory sequence in each step exactly — do not skip, reorder, or optimize
• Only load one step file at a time — never preload future steps
• Always communicate in {communication_language}
• If {headless_mode} is true, auto-proceed through confirmation gates with their default action and log each auto-decision

Stages

Invocation Contract

On Activation

1. Load config from {project-root}/_bmad/skf/config.yaml and resolve:

   • project_name, output_folder, user_name, communication_language, document_output_language
   • skills_output_folder, forge_data_folder, sidecar_path
   • snippet_skill_root_override (optional string) — when set, overrides the IDE-derived skill_root for snippet root: paths. Authoring repos that keep all skills under a single on-disk folder (e.g. skills/) set this once so exported snippets reference the real layout instead of a per-IDE directory that does not exist. Consuming projects omit it.

2. Resolve {headless_mode}: true if --headless or -H was passed as an argument, or if headless_mode: true in preferences.yaml. Default: false.

3. Load, read the full file, and then execute ./steps-c/step-01-load-skill.md to begin the workflow.

Source: armelhbobdad/oh-my-skills — distributed by TomeVault.