Authoring and publishing

Skills are published to the public selat-skills registry — the same index.json that selat skill list --available reads. Contributing one is a guided lifecycle, each step a SELAT CLI command: 1 2

Step	Command	Purpose
Scaffold	`selat skill new <name> --dir skills`	Create `skills/<name>/` with the repository’s skill layout.
Validate	`selat skill validate <path>`	Run the static Agent Skill SOP check before live verification.
Verify	`selat skill verify <path> [--pay]`	Probe each endpoint’s live 402 price and rail against its cap; the default probe is free, while `--pay` makes a capped real call. A passing verify receipt is written for submission.
Register	`selat skill register <path>`	Add or update the `index.json` entry from the manifest.
Whole-repo check	`npm run validate`	Validate every repository skill and the registry consistency; this is the same check CI runs.
Submit	`selat skill submit <path>`	Require the passing verify receipt, then open a pull request with it as provenance.

selat skill new my-skill --dir skills
# Author the generated files and replace every TODO.
selat skill validate ./skills/my-skill
selat skill verify ./skills/my-skill   # free live-402 check; add --pay for a capped real call
selat skill register ./skills/my-skill
npm run validate
selat skill submit ./skills/my-skill   # use --dry-run to preview the PR

selat skill submit is gated on a passing verify receipt, which the free or paid verification flow writes after probing live endpoints. Use --dry-run to preview the branch, files, and PR body before anything is pushed. A maintainer performs a paid re-verification before merge. 2

Versioning and ownership

Each published skill is a registry entry — its name, description, rail, and kind — and changes land as reviewed pull requests that registry maintainers own. The reliability badge on selat skill list --available reflects the latest scheduled free probe, so consumers see whether a skill’s endpoints are reachable and within their declared caps at the last check. 1

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