🏗️ Consolidate skills into ai-coding-config plugin

Merge standalone skills plugin into core ai-coding-config plugin following
the same pattern as PR #14 for agents.

- Move skills from plugins/skills/skills/ to plugins/core/skills/
- Bump marketplace and core plugin version to 5.0.0
- Update all documentation and symlinks
- Remove plugins/skills/ directory

Previous structure had awkward naming: skills:brainstorming
New access pattern: ai-coding-config:brainstorming

This completes the consolidation work, creating one unified plugin
containing commands, agents, skills, and context.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <[email protected]>

Author: Nick Sullivan

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

@@ -6,24 +6,17 @@
   },
   "metadata": {
     "description": "Professional AI coding configurations, agents, skills, and personalities for Claude Code and Cursor",
-    "version": "4.0.0",
+    "version": "5.0.0",
     "license": "MIT",
     "repository": "https://github.com/TechNickAI/ai-coding-config"
   },
   "plugins": [
     {
       "name": "ai-coding-config",
       "source": "./plugins/core",
-      "description": "Commands, agents, and context for AI-assisted development workflows",
-      "version": "4.0.0",
-      "tags": ["commands", "agents", "workflows", "essential"]
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "skills",
-      "source": "./plugins/skills",
-      "description": "Autonomous skills that Claude activates when relevant - research, debugging, brainstorming",
-      "version": "2.0.1",
-      "tags": ["skills", "autonomous", "research", "debugging"]
+      "description": "Commands, agents, skills, and context for AI-assisted development workflows",
+      "version": "5.0.0",
+      "tags": ["commands", "agents", "skills", "workflows", "essential"]
     },
     {
       "name": "personality-sherlock",

.claude/skills

@@ -1 +1 @@
-../plugins/skills/skills
+../plugins/core/skills

AGENTS.md

@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ Core project rules that apply to all tasks:
 **Plugin-first architecture** - Everything distributable lives in `plugins/`:
 
 - `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` - Plugin marketplace manifest
-- `plugins/core/` - Commands, agents, and context (canonical source)
-- `plugins/skills/` - Autonomous skills
+- `plugins/core/` - Commands, agents, skills, and context (canonical source)
 - `plugins/personalities/` - Personality variants
 - `.cursor/rules/` - Cursor rules (canonical location)
 - `rules/` - Symlink to `.cursor/rules/` for visibility (THIS REPO ONLY)
@@ -82,7 +81,7 @@ permanent records requiring explicit permission.
 - **Plugin-first**: All content lives in `plugins/`, other locations symlink there
 - `.claude/commands/` → `plugins/core/commands/` (symlink)
 - `.claude/agents/` → `plugins/core/agents/` (symlink)
-- `.claude/skills/` → `plugins/skills/skills/` (symlink)
+- `.claude/skills/` → `plugins/core/skills/` (symlink)
 - `rules/` → `.cursor/rules/` (symlink for visibility, THIS REPO ONLY)
 - `.cursor/rules/` contains the canonical Cursor rules
 - `.cursor/rules/personalities/` → copied from `plugins/personalities/` (not symlinked -

README.md

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ expertise (debugging, code review).
 | [Commands](plugins/core/commands/)      | 14    | Automate workflows      |
 | [Agents](plugins/core/agents/)          | 13    | Specialized assistants  |
 | [Rules](rules/)                         | 32    | Coding standards        |
-| [Skills](plugins/skills/skills/)        | 5     | Autonomous capabilities |
+| [Skills](plugins/core/skills/)          | 5     | Autonomous capabilities |
 | [Personalities](plugins/personalities/) | 7     | Communication styles    |
 
 ### Highlighted Commands

plugins/core/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "ai-coding-config",
-  "version": "4.0.0",
-  "description": "Commands, agents, and context for AI-assisted development workflows",
+  "version": "5.0.0",
+  "description": "Commands, agents, skills, and context for AI-assisted development workflows",
   "author": {
     "name": "TechNickAI",
     "url": "https://github.com/TechNickAI"

plugins/core/commands/ai-coding-config.md

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Installation mapping:
 - Rules → `.cursor/rules/` (copy from `~/.ai_coding_config/.cursor/rules/`)
 - Commands → `.claude/commands/` symlink to `~/.ai_coding_config/plugins/core/commands/`
 - Agents → `.claude/agents/` symlink to `~/.ai_coding_config/plugins/core/agents/`
-- Skills → `.claude/skills/` symlink to `~/.ai_coding_config/plugins/skills/skills/`
+- Skills → `.claude/skills/` symlink to `~/.ai_coding_config/plugins/core/skills/`
 - Personalities → `.cursor/rules/personalities/` (copy selected personality, set
   `alwaysApply: true`)
 
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ If direct symlinks to deleted paths found, offer to update:
 
 - `.claude/commands/` → `~/.ai_coding_config/plugins/core/commands/`
 - `.claude/agents/` → `~/.ai_coding_config/plugins/core/agents/`
-- `.claude/skills/` → `~/.ai_coding_config/plugins/skills/skills/`
+- `.claude/skills/` → `~/.ai_coding_config/plugins/core/skills/`
   </symlink-compatibility-check>
 
 <file-updates>