docs: transition from Interest Group to Working Group (#81)

* docs: transition from Interest Group to Working Group

Follow-up to modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#2586, which
converted the charter from IG to WG.

- Rename Interest Group → Working Group in headings and prose
- Update Discord (#skills-over-mcp-wg) and Discussions
  (meeting-notes-skills-over-mcp-wg) references; channel renames
  coordinated separately
- CONTRIBUTING.md: align meeting norms with MCP group governance
  (7-day advance notice, meet.modelcontextprotocol.io) and rewrite
  Decision-Making to reflect WG authority (lazy consensus → formal
  vote → escalation), linking to the charter's Authority table
- Keep CODEOWNERS team at skills-over-mcp-ig pending access-repo
  rename; TODO comment added
- decisions.md: update present-tense preamble, log the IG → WG
  transition as a new ADR entry, and preserve historical entries

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* docs(contributing): link to governance/charter instead of duplicating

Meetings and Decision-Making sections now point to the MCP group
governance doc and charter for canonical rules, keeping only the
repo- or group-specific bits (notes location, coordination
channels, outputs list). Also drops a leftover "rough consensus"
IG-era phrase in the Decision Log guidelines.

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* docs(codeowners): fix sentence fragment in default-owner comment

"Has day-to-day governance" read as an incomplete sentence and
overstated what CODEOWNERS actually encodes (review routing, not
governance). Replace with a direct one-liner.

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# Decision Log
This document records significant decisions made by the Skills Over MCP Interest Group, using an ADR-lite (Architecture Decision Record) format. It serves as a transparent, auditable trace of the group's reasoning over time.
This document records significant decisions made by the Skills Over MCP Working Group, using an ADR-lite (Architecture Decision Record) format. It serves as a transparent, auditable trace of the group's reasoning over time.
For background on the ADR format, see [adr.github.io](https://adr.github.io/).
@ -117,3 +117,20 @@ For background on the ADR format, see [adr.github.io](https://adr.github.io/).
- [Issue #55](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/experimental-ext-skills/issues/55)
- [Discord discussion](https://discord.com/channels/1358869848138059966/1482008994062274610)
- [Using `_meta` for Skill Resources](skill-meta-keys.md)
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### 2026-04-16: Convert Skills Over MCP from Interest Group to Working Group
**Status:** [Accepted by Core Maintainers](https://discord.com/channels/1358869848138059966/1464745826629976084/1494774410891231352)
**Context:** The group formed as an Interest Group on 2026-02-01 to explore skills distribution over MCP. Over the following weeks the work moved beyond problem-framing into concrete deliverables including the Skills Extension SEP (Extensions Track). Per MCP [group governance](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/community/working-interest-groups), Interest Groups focus on "identifying problems worth solving" and produce non-binding recommendations, while Working Groups "collaborate on a SEP, a series of related SEPs, or an officially endorsed project" and make binding decisions. The group's output had crossed that boundary.
**Decision:** Convert to a Working Group. The group retains its existing scope (skills discovery, distribution, and consumption through MCP) and charter location, now governed by WG rules: lazy consensus → formal vote → escalation, with WG Leads holding autonomous authority over meeting logistics, proposal prioritization, and in-scope SEP triage. Spec changes require WG consensus plus Core Maintainer approval.
**Rationale:** The group was already doing WG work — shepherding SEPs, building reference implementations, and coordinating cross-WG concerns — without the matching authority structure. Aligning form with function lets the group own SEP decisions in its scope (rather than routing recommendations through other WGs), formalizes the two-Lead model already in practice, and makes responsibilities explicit under the governance doc.
**References:**
- [PR #2586](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2586) — charter conversion (merged 2026-04-16)
- [Charter](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/community/skills-over-mcp/charter)
- [Group governance](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/community/working-interest-groups)