Marketplace Quality Blitz: 130 Stub Files, 4300 Warnings, Zero Excuses
130 plugins had SKILL.md files that said nothing. Not bad documentation. Not incomplete documentation. Template stubs. Copy-pasted boilerplate with placeholder text where the actual content should ...

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130 plugins had SKILL.md files that said nothing. Not bad documentation. Not incomplete documentation. Template stubs. Copy-pasted boilerplate with placeholder text where the actual content should be. A user opening one of these files learned exactly two things: that the file existed and that nobody had bothered to fill it in. This week I replaced all 130 of them. The Stub Problem When you scaffold a plugin, the generator creates a SKILL.md. That's good practice. But when you scaffold 340 plugins over several months, some of those files never graduate from template to documentation. They sit there with [Describe your skill here] blocks, passing existence checks while providing zero value. The scale was worse than I expected. A quick audit showed 130 out of 340+ plugins had stub SKILL.md files. That's 38% of the marketplace shipping empty documentation. Every one of those plugins was discoverable, installable, and completely undocumented beyond its name. Replacing Stubs at Scale with Ve