Gaia Assistant Builder Skill
Use this skill when the task is about the Gaia personal assistant program.
This program provides Gaia's constitutional layer for personal assistant capabilities, with transparent governance and a user-direction workflow.
Required Context
Read these first:
- •
CONSTITUTION.md - •
infrastructure/personal-assistant-program.md - •
assistant/README.mdfor standalone runtime bootstrap - •
tools/agent-config.ymlandtools/agent-loop.pyfor self-evolving loop behavior
Then load references from this skill as needed:
- •
references/direction-contract.mdfor user-direction issue handling
Core Rules
- •Keep the assistant user-useful first and self-improving second.
- •Preserve transparent review paths. No hidden behavior.
- •Treat user direction as a first-class input with explicit scope and success criteria.
- •Keep generic improvements reusable and upstreamable.
- •Keep Gaia-specific constitutional and governance logic in Gaia.
Contribution Workflow
- •Sync and inspect current state.
- •Check open assistant-direction issues and active PRs.
- •Select one scoped contribution that can be reviewed independently.
- •Implement with tests/checks where applicable.
- •Regenerate indexes with
make generate-indexeswhen docs/skills/infrastructure changed. - •Run
make check-all. - •Open PR with clear "what changed / why / validation" sections.
Scope Boundaries
Contribute to Gaia when work is:
- •Constitutional guardrails
- •User-direction protocol
- •Token budget policy and governance
- •Gaia-specific skills and contributor workflows
Minimum PR Checklist
- • Aligns with
CONSTITUTION.md - • References the assistant program docs if behavior changes
- • Uses the user-direction contract when task is human-directed
- • Includes validation output (
make check-allat minimum) - • Regenerates indexes if needed