agent-skills

Agent Skills is a collection of structured workflow guides designed to be fed to AI coding assistants — programs that help developers write, test, and ship software. The problem it addresses is that AI coding tools, left to their own defaults, often skip the steps a careful human engineer would follow: writing a spec before touching code, breaking work into small testable pieces, running security checks, or doing a proper review before merging a change.

Each "skill" in the collection is a Markdown document (a plain text file with simple formatting) that spells out a specific workflow with clear steps, verification checkpoints, and common anti-patterns to avoid. There are 20 skills total, organized around the phases of building software: defining what to build, planning the work, writing the code, verifying it works, reviewing it, and shipping it. Seven slash commands (short instructions like "/spec" or "/test") activate the right skills automatically at each phase.

You would use this when you are working with an AI coding assistant and want it to behave more like a disciplined senior engineer rather than jumping straight to writing code. The skills install into supported tools by adding files to specific directories or running a plugin command. The repository itself is written in Shell and the skills are plain Markdown, so they work with any AI agent that accepts system prompt files or instruction documents.