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loulanyue/skills

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47ShellAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5Setup · easy

TLDR

A collection of reusable AI coding agent skills covering requirement gathering, shared team vocabulary, test driven development, and bug diagnosis.

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  root((agent skills))
    What it does
      Packages reusable agent skills
      Installs via CLI or plugin
      Guides setup with a wizard
    Problems solved
      Misaligned requirements
      Overly verbose agents
      Code that does not work
    Tech stack
      Shell scripts
      Claude Code plugin format
    Audience
      Developers using AI agents
      Claude Code and Codex users

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Run a structured question and answer session with your coding agent before starting a new feature.

USE CASE 2

Build a shared vocabulary document so your agent uses the same concise terms as your team.

USE CASE 3

Adopt a test driven, write a failing test first workflow with your coding agent.

USE CASE 4

Use a repeatable skill for diagnosing bugs instead of ad hoc debugging prompts.

What is it built with?

ShellClaude Code Plugin

How does it compare?

loulanyue/skillszealchou/fable5-scaffoldemadd/mise-en-claude
Stars474748
LanguageShellShellShell
Setup difficultyeasymoderateeasy
Complexity2/53/52/5
Audiencedeveloperdeveloperdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

In plain English

This repository is a collection of ready made skills for AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, meant for real day to day engineering work rather than quick one-off prompting. Each skill is a small, self-contained set of instructions the author uses personally, and the README describes them as easy to adapt and usable with any model. You can install the skills in two ways. The first copies editable files into your own project using a command line installer, so you can open them up and change them to fit your workflow. The second installs them as a managed Claude Code plugin that stays read only and updates automatically whenever the author ships a new version, so you follow along without maintaining your own copy. After installing either way, a setup command asks a few questions, such as which issue tracker you use and where you want generated documents saved. The bulk of the README explains the specific problems each skill is meant to solve. One pair of skills runs a detailed question and answer session with the agent before any code gets written, to close the gap between what you actually want and what the agent assumes you want. Another approach encourages building a short shared vocabulary document for a project, so the agent uses the same concise terms the team already uses instead of long, generic descriptions, which the author says also helps the agent navigate the codebase and think in fewer words. For cases where the agent produces code that does not work, there is a skill that encourages a test driven, write a failing test first then fix it, style of working, plus a separate skill focused on a repeatable process for diagnosing bugs. The README goes on to describe a fourth common problem, code quality degrading into an unstructured mess over time, though the specific fix for that issue was not included in the portion of the README available here.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Install this skills collection and run the setup command to configure my issue tracker.
Prompt 2
Use the grill-me skill to clarify requirements before we start building this feature.
Prompt 3
Set up a shared vocabulary document for this project using the approach described here.
Prompt 4
Apply the test driven development skill to the next bug fix we work on.

Frequently asked questions

What is skills?

A collection of reusable AI coding agent skills covering requirement gathering, shared team vocabulary, test driven development, and bug diagnosis.

What language is skills written in?

Mainly Shell. The stack also includes Shell, Claude Code Plugin.

How hard is skills to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is skills for?

Mainly developer.

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