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Summary

Trim skills/marketplace/SKILL.md from 491 → 212 lines (-57%) and reframe around the discovery-first workflow.

Removed:

  • Hardcoded category list (duplicates live vercel integration categories output and goes stale)
  • "Building Integrations" section (155 lines, partner-facing audience)
  • Observability deep-dive (90 lines, too vertical)
  • Per-integration code samples that duplicate framework docs

Added / restructured:

  • Prominent "CRITICAL: Discover BEFORE you scaffold" section at top — agents reading "build me X" should run vercel integration discover as their first action, not write app code from memory
  • Multi---category flag pattern documented (e.g., discover --category commerce --category payments --category auth)
  • vercel integration categories subcommand integrated into the taught workflow

Regenerated:

  • generated/skill-manifest.json (intents updated: drop "build integration", add "discover integrations")

Why

When measured against realistic user prompts ("build me an Etsy clone", "I want a habit tracker") the agent skipped Marketplace discovery entirely and scaffolded from training-data memory — recommending libraries that may not be on the Marketplace and missing auto-provisioned env vars + unified billing. The new framing makes discovery the load-bearing first step.

Companion PR

CLI changes that this skill teaches (vercel integration categories subcommand, repeatable --category flag): vercel/vercel#16593 (will need an upstream sync into skills/vercel-cli/upstream/ after that merges).

Test plan

  • Review trimmed content — confirm no critical Marketplace guidance was lost
  • Verify generated/skill-manifest.json regeneration is correct
  • Local Claude Code session: marketplace skill loads with new framing

Trim marketplace SKILL.md from 491 lines to 212. Remove partner-facing
content (building integrations, Observability deep-dive, per-integration
code samples) and the hardcoded category list — those duplicate the live
\`vercel integration categories\` output and go stale.

Lead with a prominent "Discover BEFORE you scaffold" section so agents
treat \`vercel integration discover\` as the first action on casual
"build me X" prompts rather than scaffolding from memory.

Document the multi-\`--category\` flag pattern alongside the new
\`vercel integration categories\` subcommand.

Regenerate skill-manifest.json (intents updated: drop "build integration",
add "discover integrations").
The marketplace command template pulled the entire "Observability Integration Path" section from the marketplace skill, which was 50+ lines of vendor data-type tables and a 4-step setup flow — most of which the template's Step 7 didn't need.

The simplified marketplace skill (this PR) removed that section, breaking the include resolver. Inline only what Step 7 actually uses: the drain verification curl command and the logs/traces vs Speed-Insights/Web-Analytics distinction.

Regenerate commands/marketplace.md and build-from-skills manifest.
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