| name | acreadiness-policy |
|---|---|
| description | Help the user pick, write, or apply an AgentRC policy. Policies customise readiness scoring by disabling irrelevant checks, overriding impact/level, setting pass-rate thresholds, or chaining org baselines with team overrides. Use when the user asks about strict mode, AI-only scoring, custom weights, CI gating, or wants org-wide standardisation. |
| argument-hint | [show | new <name> | apply <path-or-pkg>] — e.g. /acreadiness-policy show, /acreadiness-policy new strict-frontend |
Use this skill when the user asks about policies, strict mode, custom scoring, disabling checks, org standards, or CI gating of readiness.
A policy is a small JSON file with three optional sections — criteria, extras, thresholds — that customise how AgentRC scores readiness.
AgentRC ships with three example policies in examples/policies/:
| Policy | What it does |
|---|---|
strict.json |
100% pass rate, raises impact on key criteria |
ai-only.json |
Disables all repo-health checks, focuses on AI tooling |
repo-health-only.json |
Disables AI checks, focuses on traditional quality |
Recommend these as starting points before writing a custom policy.
| Impact | Weight |
|---|---|
| critical | 5 |
| high | 4 |
| medium | 3 |
| low | 2 |
| info | 0 |
Score = 1 − (deductions / max possible weight). Grades: A ≥ 0.9, B ≥ 0.8, C ≥ 0.7, D ≥ 0.6, F < 0.6.
List policies currently in effect (from agentrc.config.json policies array, or none).
Scaffold policies/<name>.json with sensible defaults. Walk the user through:
- What to disable — irrelevant pillars or extras for their stack (e.g. disable
observabilityfor a static site). - What to raise — override
impacttohighorcriticalfor must-haves (e.g.readme,codeowners). - Pass-rate threshold — typical org baselines:
0.7(lenient),0.85(standard),1.0(strict). - Reference the policy from
agentrc.config.json:{ "policies": ["./policies/<name>.json"] }
Run agentrc readiness --json --policy <source> and re-render the report by handing off to the assess skill / ai-readiness-reporter agent. Supports chaining:
npx -y github:microsoft/agentrc readiness --json --policy ./org-baseline.json,./team-frontend.jsonCombine policies with --fail-level to enforce a minimum maturity level in CI:
- run: npx -y github:microsoft/agentrc readiness --policy ./policies/strict.json --fail-level 3JSON policies can disable, override, and set thresholds — but cannot add new criteria. For new detection logic, point users at AgentRC's TypeScript plugin system (docs/dev/plugins.md).
- Never silently disable a pillar. If the user wants to disable
observability, confirm and explain the trade-off. - Prefer overriding
impactover disabling. Disabling hides the gap entirely; overriding lets it still appear in the report. - Recommend extras stay enabled. They cost nothing — they don't affect the score.
- Suggest layering — most orgs want a baseline policy + per-team overrides chained with
--policy a.json,b.json.
{ "name": "my-policy", "criteria": { "disable": ["env-example", "observability", "dependabot"], "override": { "readme": { "impact": "high", "level": 2 }, "lint-config": { "title": "Linter required" } } }, "extras": { "disable": ["pre-commit"] }, "thresholds": { "passRate": 0.9 } }