Skill Documentation Healer

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Updates a skill's SKILL.md and related files based on corrections discovered during execution, with user approval and optional commit.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DocumentationIntermediate
209/14/2026
Claude Code
#skill-maintenance#documentation#approval-workflow#self-healing#markdown

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Our review

This skill analyzes the ongoing conversation to find a skill whose documentation proved wrong, proposes before/after corrections across SKILL.md and its supporting files, then applies them only after explicit user approval, with an optional git commit.

Strengths

  • Nothing is edited without consent: the workflow shows the proposed diffs and waits for an explicit choice (1-4) between apply-and-commit, apply-without-commit, revise, or cancel.
  • Structured root-cause analysis (outdated API, wrong parameters, bad endpoint, missing context) before any fix is proposed.
  • Multi-file scope: SKILL.md, references/ and scripts/ are scanned and can be corrected together, with cross-file consistency checks.
  • Modified sections are read back after editing and completion is confirmed with a file list.

Limitations

  • Identifying the target skill depends entirely on conversation context (invocation messages, recently referenced SKILL.md); ambiguous context forces the skill to ask the user.
  • The allowed toolset is narrow (Read, Edit, Bash ls/git): it cannot create new files or run tests to validate the fixes.
  • Assumes the Claude Code skills layout (./skills/*/SKILL.md) and does not apply to repositories organized differently.
When to use it

Use it right after a skill produced an error or wrong behavior and you already know what its documentation should say instead.

When not to use it

Avoid it for authoring a brand-new skill from scratch or for fixing production code unrelated to an existing skill's documentation.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score88/100

The skill instructs a documentation healing workflow using only Read, Edit, Bash(ls:*) and Bash(git:*). It requires explicit user approval before any file edits or commits, and the Bash commands are limited to listing files and git operations for version control. There is no destructive, exfiltrating, or obfuscated action.

No concerns found

Examples

Fix a broken API call in a skill doc
The stripe-integration skill made us call a deprecated endpoint during this session — run the heal skill to update its SKILL.md with the correct endpoint and parameters.
Heal a specific section
/heal the pagination section of the web-scraper skill: the selector it documents no longer matches the page structure we saw.
Apply a correction discovered by trial and error
We just figured out the right auth header by testing — heal the relevant skill docs so this mistake doesn't happen again, but don't commit yet.

description: Heal skill documentation by applying corrections discovered during execution with approval workflow argument-hint: [optional: specific issue to fix] allowed-tools: [Read, Edit, Bash(ls:), Bash(git:)]

<objective> Update a skill's SKILL.md and related files based on corrections discovered during execution.

Analyze the conversation to detect which skill is running, reflect on what went wrong, propose specific fixes, get user approval, then apply changes with optional commit. </objective>

<context> Skill detection: !`ls -1 ./skills/*/SKILL.md | head -5` </context>

<quick_start> <workflow>

  1. Detect skill from conversation context (invocation messages, recent SKILL.md references)
  2. Reflect on what went wrong and how you discovered the fix
  3. Present proposed changes with before/after diffs
  4. Get approval before making any edits
  5. Apply changes and optionally commit </workflow>

</quick_start>

<process> <step_1 name="detect_skill"> Identify the skill from conversation context:
  • Look for skill invocation messages
  • Check which SKILL.md was recently referenced
  • Examine current task context

Set: SKILL_NAME=[skill-name] and SKILL_DIR=./skills/$SKILL_NAME

If unclear, ask the user. </step_1>

<step_2 name="reflection_and_analysis"> Focus on $ARGUMENTS if provided, otherwise analyze broader context.

Determine:

  • What was wrong: Quote specific sections from SKILL.md that are incorrect
  • Discovery method: Context7, error messages, trial and error, documentation lookup
  • Root cause: Outdated API, incorrect parameters, wrong endpoint, missing context
  • Scope of impact: Single section or multiple? Related files affected?
  • Proposed fix: Which files, which sections, before/after for each </step_2>

<step_3 name="scan_affected_files">

ls -la $SKILL_DIR/
ls -la $SKILL_DIR/references/ 2>/dev/null
ls -la $SKILL_DIR/scripts/ 2>/dev/null

</step_3>

<step_4 name="present_proposed_changes"> Present changes in this format:

**Skill being healed:** [skill-name]
**Issue discovered:** [1-2 sentence summary]
**Root cause:** [brief explanation]

**Files to be modified:**
- [ ] SKILL.md
- [ ] references/[file].md
- [ ] scripts/[file].py

**Proposed changes:**

### Change 1: SKILL.md - [Section name]
**Location:** Line [X] in SKILL.md

**Current (incorrect):**

[exact text from current file]


**Corrected:**

[new text]


**Reason:** [why this fixes the issue]

[repeat for each change across all files]

**Impact assessment:**
- Affects: [authentication/API endpoints/parameters/examples/etc.]

**Verification:**
These changes will prevent: [specific error that prompted this]

</step_4>

<step_5 name="request_approval">

Should I apply these changes?

1. Yes, apply and commit all changes
2. Apply but don't commit (let me review first)
3. Revise the changes (I'll provide feedback)
4. Cancel (don't make changes)

Choose (1-4):

Wait for user response. Do not proceed without approval. </step_5>

<step_6 name="apply_changes"> Only after approval (option 1 or 2):

  1. Use Edit tool for each correction across all files
  2. Read back modified sections to verify
  3. If option 1, commit with structured message showing what was healed
  4. Confirm completion with file list </step_6> </process>

<success_criteria>

  • Skill correctly detected from conversation context
  • All incorrect sections identified with before/after
  • User approved changes before application
  • All edits applied across SKILL.md and related files
  • Changes verified by reading back
  • Commit created if user chose option 1
  • Completion confirmed with file list </success_criteria>
<verification> Before completing:
  • Read back each modified section to confirm changes applied
  • Ensure cross-file consistency (SKILL.md examples match references/)
  • Verify git commit created if option 1 was selected
  • Check no unintended files were modified </verification>
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