chore(skills): cut the rfc skill to a 1-2 pager - #511
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Details are the implementer's. Template now matches number-rfc.yml: em-dash H1 for number injection, frontmatter status set so CI does not index a draft as accepted.
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The rfc skill targets a 1-2 page RFC that settles the approach and leaves the
details to the implementer.
196 → 66 lines. Gone: the mandatory rounds of clarifying questions, the ten-area
clarity checklist, the hand-it-back-for-review phase, and the Polkadot Fellows
template's Stakeholders, Testing/Security/Privacy,
Performance/Ergonomics/Compatibility, Prior Art and Future Directions sections.
Drawbacks and Alternatives merge into one Trade-offs section.
Template now matches
number-rfc.ymlThe old template did not, in three ways worth knowing about independently of the
brevity change:
# RFC — Titlewith an em dash, which is the exact form thenumbering step rewrites (
s/^# RFC — /# RFC NNNN — /).# RFC: Feature Name Herematched neither pattern, so the assigned number was never injected intothe title.
title/owner/statuswhereextract_metareadsthem, and
status: draftis set explicitly: a missing status is defaulted toaccepted, so a draft would have been indexed as accepted.extract_metaprefersfrontmatter. That also removes a hardcoded author name that would have
mis-attributed every RFC generated from the template.
The skill now says not to number the file and not to touch
_index.md— CI doesboth on merge to
main.Not addressed here
check-rfc.ymlfails any PR touchingdocs/rfcs/**that does not also changerust/crates/truapi/. A host-side proposal cannot satisfy that, since the crateinvariants keep host-side runtime types in
truapi-platform/truapi-server, sosuch a proposal has to be filed under
docs/features/instead. The skilldocuments the constraint; removing it is a separate call about the process rather
than the skill.