sw:skill-gen

To turn recurring patterns into reusable skills, run the skill generation process to identify signals across increment closures and automatically write SKILL.md files with frontmatter under .claude/skills/{pattern-slug} for project alignment.

Skill generation from living docs is used to detect recurring patterns across multiple increments and convert them into standardized project skills, accelerating team alignment and avoiding duplicate efforts through tracked skill signals.

To generate a project skill from detected patterns, run the skill generator to apply detection across increment closures, use the skill-creator plugin to build frontmatter and evaluation scaffolding, and update the skill-signals.json store to track the new entry.

Yes, you can use this skill generation without external dependencies because it relies on a project-local skill-creator plugin to generate frontmatter and evaluation scaffolding, writing all outputs directly to the local .claude/skills directory.

Pattern detection avoids creating duplicate project skills by updating and tracking skill signals in a dedicated skill-signals.json store, ensuring recurring patterns across increment closures are matched against existing entries before generating new SKILL.md files.

The best way to standardize recurring workflows across increment closures is to detect living-doc patterns and convert them into project-specific SKILL.md files, enabling on-demand skill creation that standardizes alignment for project teams and stakeholders.