Skill Curation

A rule library degrades in predictable ways. Two rules written months apart give conflicting guidance on an overlapping case. A rule references another that has since been renamed, so the reference resolves to nothing and fails silently. A rule written for a system that has been replaced continues loading. None of this announces itself — the system keeps answering, slightly worse, and the degradation is attributed to the model. Curation is the maintenance discipline that prevents it, and its defining property is that it operates on the library as a whole rather than on individual rules, because the failures are relational.

Oxcyon curates the skill corpus continuously rather than on request. When any skill changes, its dependents are identified and reconciled, contradictions are resolved to a single authority, and references that no longer resolve are repaired before they can fail quietly. Ownership and review cadence are fields on each record, so overdue rules surface as a query against the Skills Registry rather than through periodic inspection.