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chore: add technical-writer skill and require it for repo prose - #168

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Adds the technical-writer skill to .agents/skills and requires it for prose written in this repo: READMEs, changesets, commit messages, PR titles and bodies, and issues. The skill sets the voice, lists patterns to cut (filler, hype, bold emphasis, em dashes, negation-and-reveal), and asks writers to check technical claims against the source before stating them. It complements the existing "Code style — no slop" rules, which already extend to all prose.

.claude is a symlink to .agents, so Claude Code loads the skill from .claude/skills while other agents read .agents/skills. This is the same layout vercel/chat uses for the same skill (vercel/chat#976).

Where the requirement appears:

  • AGENTS.md: a bullet under "Code style — no slop".
  • .github/CONTRIBUTING.md: a "Writing with AI coding agents" section under "Pull requests".
  • .github/pull_request_template.md: a hidden comment telling agents to use the skill for the description and commit messages.
  • The three issue templates: the same instruction for issues. These are YAML issue forms, where an HTML comment would render as form text, so they use a # comment that GitHub doesn't display.

The docs site and the published github-tools-agents skill are unchanged. No changeset, since the published packages aren't touched. pnpm lint passes.

Add the technical-writer skill under .agents/skills, with .claude linked
to .agents so Claude Code loads it too. Require it in AGENTS.md,
CONTRIBUTING.md, and the PR and issue templates.
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Thank you for following the naming conventions! 🙏

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