Agent Skills

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Description

Agent Skills is a curated collection of production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents, maintained by Addy Osmani, providing battle-tested best practices and operational conventions.

Key Features

  • 23 engineering skills — Covers full dev lifecycle: spec definition, planning, building, testing, review, simplification, and shipping
  • 7 slash commands — /spec, /plan, /build, /test, /review, /code-simplify, /ship for different dev phases
  • Multi-tool compatibility — Supports Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and more
  • Structured workflows — Each skill includes steps, verification gates, and anti-rationalization tables for code quality
  • Auto skill activation — Automatically selects appropriate skills based on current activity (API design, frontend engineering, etc.)
  • Meta skill system — using-agent-skills meta-skill maps work to the correct skill workflow automatically

Use Cases

💡 Providing standardized engineering practices and quality gates for AI coding assistants
💡 Establishing consistent code review and release processes across teams
💡 Guiding AI to follow best practices in test-driven development
💡 Ensuring AI-generated code meets production-grade engineering standards

Tags

agent-skills engineering coding-agent shell

Categories

💻 Coding Agent

Quick Start

# Option 1: Install via Claude Code Marketplace
/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills
/plugin install agent-skills@addy-agent-skills

# Option 2: Clone the repository
 git clone https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills.git

# Load in Claude Code
claude --plugin-dir /path/to/agent-skills

# Option 3: For Cursor
# Copy SKILL.md files to .cursor/rules/ directory

# Usage examples:
# /spec - Define what to build
# /plan - Plan how to build it
# /build - Build incrementally
# /test - Write tests
# /review - Code review
# /ship - Ship to production
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