skills — security grade SAFE, quality 62/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 62/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

by coleam00 · Agent Tool · ★ 568

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About skills

Cole's AI Skills The skills I actually use to build software with coding agents. Straight out of my folder. What this is A skill is a folder with a in it: a name, a description of when to use it, and the procedure the agent should follow. Your agent loads the description at startup and pulls in the full skill only when the work matches. That's the whole idea, and it's why skills scale where a 2,000-line doesn't. These 34 skills are the AI Layer from my Agentic Coding course. They're built around one loop I run on nearly every ticket: prime → plan → implement → validate → review → commit → PR Around that loop sit the pieces that feed it (PRD, architecture, epic slicing), the pieces that run it in parallel (worktrees), and the meta-skills that let you build more of your own AI Layer (rules, hooks, skills, opportunity scans). Nothing here is a framework. Each skill is a plain markdown file you can read in two minutes, disagree with, and edit. That's the point: read them, take the ones that fit how you work, rewrite the rest. Bring them in As a Claude Code plugin (easiest, stays updated) Run these two commands inside Claude Code: That's it.

Quick Facts

Stars568
Forks161
LanguagePython
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseMIT
Quality Score61.7681486076503/100
Open Issues10
Last Updated2026-09-17
Created2026-08-04
Platformspython
Est. Tokens~16k

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is skills?

skills is The agent skills I actually use to build software with coding agents. The PIV loop, planning, worktrees, and the meta-skills for building your own AI Layer.. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 568 GitHub stars.

What programming language is skills written in?

skills is primarily written in Python.

How do I install or use skills?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the skills GitHub repository at github.com/coleam00/skills. The project has 568 stars and 161 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does skills use?

skills is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

What are the best alternatives to skills?

The top alternatives to skills on Agent Skills Hub include chinese-novelist-skill, skills, awesome-android-agent-skills. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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