chore(skills): ship the 18 ghs-* skills as an installable plugin - #7
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The skills live in a project-scoped `skills/.claude/skills/`, so today they only
load while working inside `skills/` — for a toolkit whose entire purpose is to
operate on *other* repositories, that is the one place they are least useful.
Add a marketplace manifest at the repo root and a plugin manifest pointing at
the existing directory:
/plugin marketplace add Atypical-Consulting/github-toolkit
/plugin install github-skills@github-toolkit
`source` targets `./skills/.claude` rather than moving the skills, because
`.claude/skills/` is referenced in ~20 places — including the routing table
inside `ghs-orchestrate/SKILL.md` and the "Skills path:" line of every agent
prompt. Moving the tree would break that routing for no gain; the directory
already has the standard `<plugin-root>/skills/<name>` shape.
`shared/` carries no SKILL.md, so skill discovery ignores it while the skills
keep reaching it by relative path.
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Problem
The 18
ghs-*skills live inskills/.claude/skills/— a project-scoped directory. Claude Code confirms the scope on load:So a toolkit built to audit, triage and fix other people's repositories is only available while you are sitting inside its own
skills/folder. That is the one directory where it is least useful.Fix
A marketplace manifest at the repo root plus a plugin manifest, making the skills installable:
Why
sourcepoints at./skills/.claudeinstead of moving the files.claude/skills/is referenced in ~20 places, and not only in prose:ghs-orchestrate/SKILL.md(7 rows of.claude/skills/ghs-*/SKILL.md)Skills path: {path to .claude/skills}line in every agent prompt (ghs-repo-scan,ghs-action-fix,ghs-backlog-fix,ghs-issue-implement)shared/checks/**andshared/references/sync-format.mdCLAUDE.md,CONTRIBUTING.md,README.mdof the subtreeMoving the tree would mean rewriting all of it and would break
ghs-orchestraterouting on any line missed — for no functional gain, sinceskills/.claude/already has the exact shape a plugin root needs:<plugin-root>/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md. Pointing at it costs zero file moves.shared/carries noSKILL.md, so skill discovery ignores it while the skills keep reaching it by relative path. Verified:find skills/.claude/skills/shared -name SKILL.md→ empty.Verification
skills/.claude/skills/, plusshared/which is correctly not a skill