Use shfmt when an agent needs one repeatable formatting pass for shell scripts before code review, lint cleanup, or automated refactors land. This should be invoked instead of editing shell style manually or treating a generic shell toolkit as the answer, because the job here is narrow: take existing shell source and rewrite it into a consistent canonical format. That scope boundary—shell formatting for reviewable diffs and team consistency—keeps this skill distinct from the broader mvdan/sh parser and interpreter project.