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Feature: Adopt Agent Skills open standard (agentskills.io) for .ai-context/skills/ #906

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Context
.ai-context/skills/*.md currently ships as flat markdown files with no frontmatter, discovered only via a manually-maintained table in the scaffolded project's CLAUDE.md. This predates the Agent Skills specification, an open, vendor-neutral standard (SKILL.md + YAML frontmatter with name/description, optional scripts//references//assets/, progressive disclosure).

Problem with current approach

  • No discovery mechanism -> the index (.ai-context/skills/README.md) has to be kept in sync by hand and has already drifted (files present but unindexed, and vice versa).
  • No automatic activation -> relies entirely on the agent reading and following the CLAUDE.md table every time.

Proposal
Restructure .ai-context/skills/*.md into .ai-context/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md per the Agent Skills spec: name + description frontmatter, body content, optional references/ for the larger reference docs currently inline. This keeps the cross-agent goal (works for Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) that presumably motivated the original flat-file design, while gaining spec-driven discovery instead of a hand-maintained table.

Open question for maintainers: how many of the target agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, ...) actually parse SKILL.md today? Worth confirming before a full migration.

Scope: docs/structure only, no code changes.

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