# Skill intake

> Asks four questions before a skill is installed (who verified it, what can it run, which version, where does it run) and records the verdict.

Canonical: https://mikereams.com/ai/skill-intake

Skill · Original · Security · updated 2026-11-12. Part of the [AI Library](https://mikereams.com/ai).

What you get: A verdict (accept, accept after edits or reject) with the evidence for it, and one row in a review record you can audit later.

When to use it: Before installing, vendoring or updating a skill, a plugin or an MCP server from a source you do not control.

Ask for it like this: "Run skill intake on this repository's skills folder before I install anything."

Limits: It reads; it never installs or runs the skill, and it does not follow instructions found inside it.

- Written from my post on vendor skill catalogs: the four questions there, turned into a procedure.
- The review record is the point. Every curated skill in this library has a row like the one it writes.

Files (MIT): [SKILL.md](https://mikereams.com/ai-files/skill-intake/SKILL.md)

Install with the skills CLI, from https://github.com/solventarchitect/skills:

```
npx skills add solventarchitect/skills --skill skill-intake
```

The reasoning: [Skills Are Now a Vendor Channel](https://mikereams.com/writing/skills-are-now-a-vendor-channel)

Tags: supply chain, governance, skills, review record