@meowshed/meow-author

Holds how Pi writes skills, agents, output styles, commands and prompt hooks, checks them in a repository's plugins or its own .claude directory for fixed tags, a description, the six fields an agent declares, every supporting file named and a stated stop

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Install @meowshed/meow-author from npm and Pi will load the resources declared by the package manifest.

npm repohome report
$ pi install npm:@meowshed/meow-author
Package
@meowshed/meow-author
Version
0.10.1
Published
Oct 31, 2026
Downloads
697/mo · 382/wk
Author
retran
License
Apache-2.0
Types
extension, skill
Size
16 KB
Dependencies
0 dependencies · 5 peers
Pi manifest JSON
{
  "skills": [
    "skills"
  ],
  "extensions": [
    "extensions/bin.ts"
  ]
}

Security note

Pi packages can execute code and influence agent behavior. Review the source before installing third-party packages.

README

reader: someone installing or running meow-author on Pi answers: what meow-author provides, what it adds to a session and how to install it kind: reference describes: [@meowshed/meow-author@0.10.1]

@meowshed/meow-author

Holds how Pi writes skills, agents, output styles, commands and prompt hooks, checks them in a repository's plugins or its own .claude directory for fixed tags, a description, the six fields an agent declares, every supporting file named and a stated stopping point. Distributed as a Pi package.

Install it

pi install npm:@meowshed/meow-author

The paw executable ships with @meowshed/meow-core alone (REQ-4612): this package's launchers run their subcommands through it, so install the core package beside this one for the binary-backed checks. Without it, every check reports unrun and lets the command through.

pi install npm:@meowshed/meow-core   # carries the binary the launchers run

Installing from this repository's checkout is the development install: it loads the package in place and runs no lifecycle script.

What it checks in the tools a unit grants

Each tool an agent's tools or a skill's allowed-tools grants must have a step named beside it in the unit's README, under ## Tools, as a list item that opens with the tool in code font, a colon and what the step does with it. A tool with no such item fails the check, naming the file, the tool and the README, so a tool no step needs is visible and removed.

What each unit loads

meow-author check also reads each unit's always-loaded material, and fails on a skill's or agent's description and its when_to_use together over the platform's cap of 1,536 characters, which the platform sets. How often each skill is used comes from /skill-doctor in Pi; the unit reads none of Pi's own files.

What it costs you The

check is a native binary shipped inside the unit, so it needs nothing installed on the machine.

Read a subcommand's help

meow-author --help lists the subcommands, and meow-author <subcommand> --help names what it determines, what you read to reach the same answer without the tool, and the first word of each kind of line it prints. A test holds each subcommand's output to those words.