Build skills people can inspect before they install.
A skill turns your assumptions into instructions for someone else's AI. If users cannot see what it does, what it may touch, what it assumes, and what it has not proven, they have to guess.
The Good Skill Standard gives creators a practical way to publish skills that are easier to grade, test, and trust.
The problem
Most skill pages sell the promise.
A better skill shows the parts a user needs before giving it access.
The user can tell what the skill will try to do.
The user can see what data, tools, accounts, or money it may touch.
The user has a low-risk first run before real work.
The skill says what is assumed, untested, or outside its lane.
Start here
Do not make users reverse-engineer your judgment.
The template asks for purpose, inputs, outputs, access, assumptions, failure modes, and a first safe test.
It will not make a weak skill good. It will make the skill easier to inspect, and that is the first step toward trust.