# Skill Steward

Engineering Stewardship for agent-operated engineering repositories: apps, libraries, tools, plugins, harnesses, and meta repos.

Skill Steward helps humans and agents understand and improve the software ecology around a repository: charter, decisions, docs, quality gates, release legibility, safe handoff, security posture, and harness feedback. It ships as portable Agent Skills, repo-local specs, plugins, and the `steward` CLI.

## Choose your path

| Audience | Start here |
|----------|------------|
| Understand the charter | [North Star](NORTH_STAR) |
| Adopt stewardship in a repo | [Repo quality contracts](repo-quality-contracts) · [DX FAQ](DX_FAQ) |
| Human contributor | [DX FAQ](DX_FAQ) · [Contributing](https://github.com/arenukvern/skill_steward/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) |
| AI agent in this repo | [AGENTS.md](https://github.com/arenukvern/skill_steward/blob/main/AGENTS.md) · [Docs map](start_here/docs_map) |
| Install skills only | `npx skills add arenukvern/skill_steward` |
| Publish / preview docs | [Enable docs.page](contributing/enable_docs_page) · [live site](https://docs.page/arenukvern/skill_steward) |
| Full doc index | [Docs map](start_here/docs_map) |

## Core specs

| Spec | Owns |
|------|------|
| [North Star](NORTH_STAR) | Mission, scope, boundaries, maturity ladders |
| [Repo quality contracts](repo-quality-contracts) | General stewardship quality proof for any repo type |
| [STANDARDS](STANDARDS) | Agent Skills package format |
| [Skills Catalog](skills-catalog) | Installable Skill Steward skills |
| [Decisions](decisions/README) | Architectural decision records |