This skill uses the REUSE tool from the Free Software Foundation Europe project to make repository licensing explicit, machine-readable, and auditable at the file level. It is built for a very specific job: checking whether a repository follows the REUSE recommendations, then helping the agent close the gaps by adding SPDX headers, confirming copyright lines, downloading missing license texts, and generating SPDX output for downstream review.

A user should invoke this skill when a repository is about to be released, open-sourced, handed to another team, or put through compliance review. In those moments, using the project “normally” as just another CLI is not enough. The agent needs a repeatable workflow: run reuse lint, identify which files are missing licensing metadata, use commands such as reuse annotate or reuse download, and rerun the check until the repository is in a predictable state. That is the job-to-be-done. It is much narrower than a generic legal-tech product card.

The boundary is also clear. This skill does not replace legal advice, does not scan for software vulnerabilities, and does not attempt broad package policy enforcement. It focuses on REUSE compliance and SPDX-oriented remediation. Official upstream docs describe package-manager installs such as apt install reuse, dnf install reuse, and pipx install reuse, plus Docker-based CI usage for automated checks. Integration points include GitHub, GitLab, and other CI systems, along with the companion docs at reuse.software and reuse.readthedocs.io.