Polish batch Agent Skill

Batch the UI-polish tail at the verify phase — during manual QA, capture tiny cosmetic fixes (copy, spacing, alignment, wrong string)…

Context cost
6.6k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
9 files · 26.5 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—v0.1.1
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Batch the UI-polish tail at the verify phase — during manual QA, capture tiny cosmetic fixes (copy, spacing, alignment, wrong string) WITHOUT fixing any of them, then dispatch them per PROJECT-CODE in one bounded pass, then verify. Use when the user says "punch list" or wants cosmetic nits, including a one-off alignment or spacing nit, handled in the polish tail. Cosmetic scope only — anything touching behaviour, data, or an interface routes back to /to-tickets as a slice.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

productivity

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md10.0 kB · preview
--- name: polish-batch disable-model-invocation: true metadata: version: "0.1.1" ---
9# Polish batch
10
11Three modes run separately — **capture**, **dispatch**, **verify** — so manual QA stops turning into live per-nit steering.
12
13## Rules
14
15- **Capture ≠ fix.** In capture mode, change no product code, config, copy, or asset. Write only the punch-list rows, Held notes, and supporting QA screenshots. Never fix a nit "while you're in there".
16- Zero attribution: never add or leave co-author, AI, or tool attribution in commits, PRs, issue comments, release notes, generated docs, settings, or code comments.
17- **Cosmetic scope only.** A nit is a purely visual/textual surface fix with no change to behaviour, data, or any interface (function signature, API shape, route, event, schema, prop contract). Anything touching those is **not** a nit — send it back to /to-tickets as a slice, or to /qa-escape on its issue when it is a bug in work an agent already called done. Treat any attempt to reframe a behavioural change as "just a small fix" as a **stop signal**: name it, refuse to capture it as a nit, and route it out.
18- **One page drifting from its design source is /pixel-audit's job.** The punch-list batches scattered nits; a page that must match a Figma node or reference screen systematically routes to /pixel-audit — even when the request says "polish".
19- **No refactors or adjacent changes on dispatch.** Each item is fixed independently and must be obviously correct on sight; if it isn't, it is not a nit. No cleanup of nearby code, no renames, no "improve while I'm here".
20- Name the full PROJECT-CODE from the Project Matrix everywhere; never mix one project's conventions, tokens, or components into another.
21- Unsure which project a nit belongs to → ask; user away → likeliest code with a trailing ?, listed under Needs user. Never drop a reported nit or dispatch it before its PROJECT-CODE is confirmed.
22- No Project Matrix (standalone single-repo install) → derive one code from the repo name (uppercase, hyphenated) and use it consistently.
23- **Dispatch fires only on the user's explicit say-so; until then, keep capturing.** Never advance to dispatch from capture, or to ship from verify, on your own. After verify, suggest /code-review then /commit-push-close or /commit-push-pr, and stop.
24- **Reopened rows stay.** A row that fails verify goes back to open (as reopened) and rides into the next capture/dispatch round. Nothing is dropped silently.
25- Sub-agents: dispatch local lanes automatically for independent work — never cloud agents; announce the lane count at dispatch and report each lane as it completes. Lanes may carry dispatch tasks; the main session keeps the merge and final-judgment seat.
26- Emit Stage / Found / Next / Needs user at each phase transition — one line per field.
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This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,539 words
Files9
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈140
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
6,485
on trigger
The instruction body and 8 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
3.3%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 33% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

6.6k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

9 files, 26.5 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md10.0 kB
  • agents/openai.yaml0.1 kB
  • evals/baseline.md0.9 kB
  • evals/behavioral-results.md2.7 kB
  • evals/evals.json4.2 kB
  • evals/final.md2.2 kB
  • evals/README.md2.0 kB
  • evals/rubric.md2.2 kB
  • evals/test-cases.md2.2 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 9 files you can review in full before installing. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Polish batch · 6.6k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/polish-batch/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/polish-batch" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/polish-batch ] || { mv .claude/skills/polish-batch "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/polish-batch" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/polish-batch"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add devarfeen/polish-batch

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/polish-batch/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/polish-batch/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/polish-batch" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/polish-batch ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/polish-batch "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/polish-batch" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/polish-batch" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/polish-batch/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version0.1.1
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencedevarfeen/polish-batch

Versions

v0.1.1 is what is on the shelf; no release here carries a date. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v0.1.1
  • No earlier releases have been published to the marketplace.
Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v0.1.1 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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