skills

Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.

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Agent Skills

A collection of agent skills that extend capabilities across planning, development, and tooling.

Planning & Design

These skills help you think through problems before writing code.

- to-prd — Turn the current conversation context into a PRD and submit it as a GitHub issue. No interview — just synthesizes what you've already discussed.

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- to-issues — Break any plan, spec, or PRD into independently-grabbable GitHub issues using vertical slices.

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- grill-me — Get relentlessly interviewed about a plan or design until every branch of the decision tree is resolved.

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- design-an-interface — Generate multiple radically different interface designs for a module using parallel sub-agents.

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- request-refactor-plan — Create a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits via user interview, then file it as a GitHub issue.

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Development

These skills help you write, refactor, and fix code.

- tdd — Test-driven development with a red-green-refactor loop. Builds features or fixes bugs one vertical slice at a time.

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- triage-issue — Investigate a bug by exploring the codebase, identify the root cause, and file a GitHub issue with a TDD-based fix plan.

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- improve-codebase-architecture — Explore a codebase for architectural improvement opportunities, focusing on deepening shallow modules and improving testability.

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- migrate-to-shoehorn — Migrate test files from as type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn.

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- scaffold-exercises — Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers.

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Tooling & Setup

- setup-pre-commit — Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged, Prettier, type checking, and tests.

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- git-guardrails-claude-code — Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, etc.) before they execute.

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Writing & Knowledge

- write-a-skill — Create new skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources.

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- edit-article — Edit and improve articles by restructuring sections, improving clarity, and tightening prose.

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- ubiquitous-language — Extract a DDD-style ubiquitous language glossary from the current conversation.

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- obsidian-vault — Search, create, and manage notes in an Obsidian vault with wikilinks and index notes.

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