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akigarage/autonomous-project-run-skill

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1PythonAudience · developerComplexity · 4/5LicenseSetup · hard

TLDR

An AI agent skill that runs a whole multi-ticket GitHub project end to end, from spec to merged pull requests, with minimal human check-ins.

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  root((Autonomous Project Run))
    What it does
      Spec to tickets
      Isolated implementation
      Automated review and merge
    Tech stack
      Python
      GitHub CLI
      Agent Skills
    Use cases
      Unattended project delivery
      Dependency-ordered tickets
      Completeness auditing
    Audience
      Developers
      AI agent operators
    Safety
      Human checkpoints
      No destructive ops

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Take a vague project goal and turn it into tracked, dependency-ordered GitHub tickets

USE CASE 2

Run each implementation ticket in its own isolated task and verify it before merging

USE CASE 3

Automatically set up companion spec, TDD, and code review skills if missing

USE CASE 4

Get a final completeness audit once every ticket in a project has merged

What is it built with?

PythonGitHub CLIAgent Skills

How does it compare?

akigarage/autonomous-project-run-skill0xustaz/streamgatea-bissell/unleash-lite
Stars111
LanguagePythonPythonPython
Setup difficultyhardhardhard
Complexity4/54/54/5
Audiencedeveloperdeveloperresearcher

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1h+

Requires a GitHub-backed project, authenticated gh CLI, and a separately installed companion skill suite.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice, per the upstream MIT-licensed work it builds on.

In plain English

autonomous-project-run is a Skill, meaning an add-on capability for an AI coding agent, that tries to take a multi-part GitHub project from a rough idea all the way to a finished, verified result while needing as little human oversight as possible. Instead of a person checking in after every step, it coordinates the whole chain: writing a specification, breaking work into dependent tickets, running each implementation task in isolation, testing it, having it reviewed by AI, checking continuous integration, opening pull requests, merging them, closing issues, and finally auditing the whole project before calling it done. It only interrupts a human when a decision would meaningfully change the project's direction, scope, or do something that cannot be undone. It works through one ticket at a time in a fresh task each time, verifying that ticket before moving to the next, and it refuses to touch production systems, spend money, handle credentials, run destructive operations, force-push code, or bypass a repository's protection rules. This skill depends on another skill collection from a separate author, Matt Pocock's workflow skills, which provide the underlying specification, test-driven-development, and code review pieces this tool coordinates. If that companion set is not already installed and configured in a target project, this skill automatically triggers the official setup process for it before continuing. Using it requires a GitHub-backed project, the GitHub command line tool signed in and authenticated, and a coding agent runtime that supports Agent Skills. Installation is two commands using a package manager called skills, one to add the companion workflow suite and one to add this skill itself. The project is pre-stable at version 0.4.0, is not affiliated with or endorsed by Matt Pocock despite building on his work, and is released under an open license with attribution details in the repository.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Explain what companion skills this tool depends on and why it needs them.
Prompt 2
Walk me through installing the Matt Pocock skills suite before this skill.
Prompt 3
What kinds of decisions does this skill still stop and ask a human about?
Prompt 4
Help me understand what the final completeness audit actually checks.

Frequently asked questions

What is autonomous-project-run-skill?

An AI agent skill that runs a whole multi-ticket GitHub project end to end, from spec to merged pull requests, with minimal human check-ins.

What language is autonomous-project-run-skill written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, GitHub CLI, Agent Skills.

What license does autonomous-project-run-skill use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice, per the upstream MIT-licensed work it builds on.

How hard is autonomous-project-run-skill to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated hard, with roughly 1h+ to a first successful run.

Who is autonomous-project-run-skill for?

Mainly developer.

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