skill-creator hardcodes author as 'gentleman-programming' in all user-created skills

[fgiardina-bm]

Bug Description

The skill-creator skill hardcodes author: gentleman-programming in its template and documentation, which causes every skill created by any user to be attributed to gentleman-programming instead of the actual author.

This means that when a user creates skills using the skill-creator, all their skills end up with someone else's name in the metadata.author field.

Where the problem is

The file skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md has the hardcoded author in three places:

1. The skill's own frontmatter (line ~8)

metadata:
  author: gentleman-programming
  version: "1.0"

2. The SKILL.md template shown to the AI (line ~52)

metadata:
  author: gentleman-programming
  version: "1.0"

3. The Frontmatter Fields documentation table (line ~114)

| `metadata.author` | Yes | `gentleman-programming` |

Impact

When the AI uses this skill to create new skills for a user, it copies the template verbatim and sets author: gentleman-programming in every generated skill. The user doesn't notice until they review the frontmatter later — by that point they may have dozens of skills with the wrong author.

In my case, I had 17 skills all attributed to gentleman-programming before I noticed and had to batch-replace them.

Suggested fix

The template should not hardcode an author name. Options:

Option A: Use a placeholder

metadata:
  author: "{your-github-username}"
  version: "1.0"

Option B: Instruct the AI to ask or infer

Add a note in the skill-creator instructions like:

"The metadata.author field should be set to the user's name or GitHub username. Ask the user if not known, or infer from git config or system username."

Option C: Use a variable reference

metadata:
  author: $USER  # or infer from git config user.name

Reproduction

1. Use the skill-creator skill to create any new skill
2. Check the generated SKILL.md frontmatter
3. Observe author: gentleman-programming regardless of who is creating the skill

Environment

• Claude Code (claude-opus-4-6 1M context)
• macOS Darwin 25.3.0
• Skills installed at ~/.claude/skills/

[Alan-TheGentleman]

Confirmed — skill-creator SKILL.md template hardcodes author: gentleman-programming in 3 places.

Approved. Replace with a placeholder like your-github-handle or read from git config user.name.

[Basparin]

Hola Alan, me pongo con éste.

Plan (siguiendo tu approval comment):

• Template del SKILL.md (línea ~49): author: gentleman-programming → author: "{your-github-username}"
• Docs table (línea ~111): reemplazar el valor por instrucción de inferir desde git config user.name o preguntar al user
• Golden snapshots asociadas se actualizan en el mismo cambio

Una decisión arquitectónica que prefiero chequear antes del merge: el issue lista 3 lugares, pero el 3º es el frontmatter propio del skill-creator (línea ~8). Mi lectura: ese SÍ debe quedar como gentleman-programming porque el skill-creator ES tu skill oficial — cambiarlo a placeholder sería falso. El bug real es que el TEMPLATE (el que la AI copia) herede el author equivocado, no el skill oficial.

¿Concordás con mantener la frontmatter propia intacta y solo tocar template + docs? Si preferís los 3, lo ajusto.

Abro PR enseguida con Closes #98 para que sea fácil de revisar.

[Alan-TheGentleman]

Closed by #371 and released in v1.37.2.

The generated skill template no longer hardcodes metadata.author: gentleman-programming; it now uses a placeholder for user-created skills while keeping the official skill-creator metadata intact.