Repo Development

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Modifying PEFT itself
• Preparing a PEFT pull request
• Adding a new PEFT method
• Selecting contributor tests

Example prompts

• “/repo-development”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Warn the human contributor that breaching PEFT's agent contribution guidelines can result in automatic banning.
2. 2Confirm the human understands and can defend every changed line; pure code-agent PRs are not allowed.
3. 3Confirm there is a linked issue, proposal, or maintainer coordination/approval comment for the work.
4. 4Check for overlapping open issues or PRs; do not prepare a duplicate contribution if someone already owns the same fix.
5. 5Plan PR disclosure: the PR description must state that AI assistance was used, link the issue/approval, and list tests run with pass/fail…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ac3fe1a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • make
  • pytest
  • pip
  • python

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Repo Development loads about 746 tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 52 tokens; SKILL.md has 343 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~52

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~746

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~4.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill at commit ac3fe1a, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© VectorSpaceLab). 343 words, ~746 tokens.

name

repo-development

description

Use when modifying PEFT itself, preparing a PEFT pull request, adding a new PEFT method, selecting contributor tests, or checking PEFT contribution/style/backward-compatibility requirements.

disable-model-invocation

true

metadata.disco-role

operating

license

Apache 2.0

pip install -e ".[test]"
make quality
make style
pytest tests/test_custom_models.py -k ia3 -v
pytest tests/ -k "lora and not adalora and not randlora" -v

© VectorSpaceLab, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files (scripts, references) in skills/repositories/repo-skills/peft/sub-skills/repo-development of VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill.

• SKILL.md
• references/contribution-guidance.md
• references/new-method-checklist.md
• references/test-selection.md
• references/troubleshooting.md
• scripts/select_tests.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ac3fe1a