Agent Skills Drift: A Feedback Loop for Keeping One True
Agent skills go stale in six ways while their checks stay green. A step-by-step loop to catch it.

About Agent Skills Drift: A Feedback Loop for Keeping One True
A step-by-step guide to finding drift in an agent skill and closing it with a repeatable loop, worked through on one publishing skill's own audit. It covers measuring install drift and version drift, finding warnings that should be guards, testing the checks themselves, collapsing duplicated logic and dating every claim about a destination.
Why it is worth reading: if you maintain skills, a passing check proves less than it looks like. This gives you a concrete order to work in and how often to run the loop.
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- Guides
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- AIDeveloper ToolsProductivity
- Listed
- November 2, 2026
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