fix(plugin): trim SKILL.md description to fit the 1024-char skill spec limit - #493
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…c limit Claude Desktop rejects the kbagent skill with "field 'description' in SKILL.md must be at most 1024 characters" because the frontmatter description had grown to 5069 characters of trigger keywords. Over the limit the skill fails to load entirely, so the extra keywords added no trigger surface at all. Rewrite the description to 965 characters covering the same command domains plus the highest-value triggers, and add a static compliance test (tests/test_skill_frontmatter.py) so CI fails if the description ever exceeds the limit again. Fixes #447
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Backfills changelog entries for ten PRs merged since v0.66.1 without a version bump (#465 #486 #487 #488 #490 #492 #493 #494 #495 + #500), attributed to their bump windows (0.67.0 / 0.70.0 / 0.70.1 / 0.71.0), and aligns the version at 0.71.0 as the catch-up release: 0.67.0-0.70.1 were merged to main but never tagged or published, so auto-update users are still on 0.66.1. The v0.71.0 tag + GitHub Release follow.
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Fixes #447.
Problem
Loading the kbagent skill into Claude Desktop fails with:
The frontmatter
descriptioninplugins/kbagent/skills/kbagent/SKILL.mdhad grown to 5069 characters — mostly an ever-growing list of trigger keywords. The Agent Skills spec capsdescriptionat 1024 characters and Claude Desktop enforces it at load time, so past the limit the skill fails to load entirely and the extra keywords contribute zero trigger surface.Fix
tests/test_skill_frontmatter.py— a static compliance test that parses the frontmatter withyaml.safe_load(same folding as the loaders) and fails CI if the description ever exceeds 1024 characters again. This closes the gap where nothing guarded the limit:make skill-checkonly verifies the auto-generated decision table.No behavioral CLI change; no version bump (can ride the next release).
Verification
uv run pytest tests/test_skill_frontmatter.py -v— 4 passeduv run ruff check+ruff format --check— cleanpython scripts/generate_skill.py— idempotent, no drift in the auto-generated table