OMP Skills System

Level 2 (Topic) — Skill loader, load order, priorities, rules inheritance.

Concept

Since 2026-07-29 the agent governance system is a set of standalone OMP skills under /workspace/SKILLS/. Each skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md (frontmatter + operational rules) plus supporting assets and scripts. Skills load on demand via read skill://<name>. There is no longer any root context tree: the standalone skills under SKILLS/ are the sole governance mechanism.

Load Order

Per /workspace/AGENTS.md (the skill loader):

  1. Mandatory at startup: load golden-rules (read skill://golden-rules) — core governance, the 14 golden rules
  2. Mandatory at startup: load memory (read skill://memory) + read root memory files (system-state.md, debts.md, past-summary.md, chronicle.md) + report archive readiness
  3. On demand (“skill X” / “contesto X”): load SKILLS/X/SKILL.md
  4. Composite requests load multiple skills (e.g. “crisp” → also crisp-build)

Priority Chain (OBSOLETE)

The legacy chain Loaded CONTEXT.md(s) > base CONTEXT.md > dir-context GEMINI.md > global is obsolete. It was a Gemini-era mechanism tied to CONTEXT.md/GEMINI.md files that no longer drive loading. There is no global override file anymore: precedence is simply SKILLS/<name>/SKILL.md plus the mandatory golden-rules skill, with project-level rules living inside each skill or CRISP project.

Memory Boot (Mandatory Alignment)

At startup the agent must load the memory skill and follow its boot sequence: read root memory files (SKILLS/memory/system-state.md, debts.md, past-summary.md, chronicle.md) and report archive readiness to synchronize with the current state.

Composite Skill Requests

Some triggers load multiple skills:

TriggerLoadsReason
crispcrisp + crisp-buildFull design + build view

Golden Rules

Governance comes from the golden-rules skill (SKILLS/golden-rules/SKILL.md), which carries the 14 golden rules — security/secret management (gopass as single source of truth), general development rules (English everywhere, relative paths, read-before-edit, minimal changes), operational integrity and logging mandates, and the memory boot-sequence rule. The legacy 8-rule list (never log secrets in cleartext, English everywhere, relative paths in context files, read before editing, minimum indispensable changes, teaching mindset, no secrets in contexts, structured logs for long-running operations) is superseded and retained only for history.

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