`Bob Skills Registry is a solo-built workflow reuse system for IBM Bob. The core problem it solves is repeated prompt engineering: teams keep rebuilding the same multi-step Bob flows across projects, which wastes time and produces inconsistent results. This project introduces a portable skill format plus a CLI that makes proven Bob workflows discoverable, installable, and repeatable. A skill is defined as structured JSON with parameters, ordered steps, and context references. The registry indexes skills, and the CLI provides practical commands to use them: list available skills, install skills locally, inspect installed skills, run workflows in interactive or non-interactive mode, and validate registry consistency. Validation is a key part of the design: schema checks and custom guardrails prevent weak skills by enforcing parameter integrity, placeholder correctness, and context format quality. The project includes two real skills: API test generation with auth-aware prompts, and database migration generation with up/down expectations. A demo TypeScript project is included to verify outcomes, along with root CLI tests and demo tests that prove reliability. Most importantly, this submission demonstrates meaningful IBM Bob usage as the core development partner: from feature design and iterative implementation to debugging, validation hardening, and test expansion. The result is a practical productivity multiplier that helps developers execute complex Bob workflows consistently instead of starting from scratch every time.`
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