techne — security grade SAFE, quality 71/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 71/100

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 lynxlangya · Codex Skill · ★ 104

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About techne

techne τέχνη · /ˈtɛk.niː/ · "TEK-nee" Ancient Greek for craft · skill · art: the practical know-how of making and doing, and the shared root of both technique and technology. Aristotle placed technē (knowing how) beside epistēmē (knowing that). Skills and agents for the AI era. Website: techne.wangyun.fan. Chinese version: README-CN.md. What This Is techne is a curated library of skills and agent assets for practical AI-era work. A techne skill is not a prompt snippet. It is a forced cognitive move: a small procedure that makes an AI collaborator investigate, judge, write, code, or ship in a way it often skips under pressure. The project keeps one shared source of truth in . Host-specific files stay thin: Claude Code plugin metadata, Cursor and Gemini manifests, and install instructions for Codex, Kimi, and other Agent Skills hosts all point back to the same skill bodies. Skills The current seeded skills use the prefix because each one anchors AI work to evidence it cannot self-report or fake: a source tree, run ledger, git diff, or written brief. — investigate a real codebase by diagramming it.

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Quick Facts

Stars104
Forks18
LanguagePython
CategoryCodex Skill
LicenseMIT
Quality Score71.4691134728628/100
Open Issues1
Last Updated2026-07-02
Created2022-01-09
Platformsclaude-code, codex, python
Est. Tokens~14k

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is techne?

techne is Forcing-function skills for AI agents — validated to improve behavior, not just change it.. It is categorized as a Codex Skill with 104 GitHub stars.

What programming language is techne written in?

techne is primarily written in Python. It covers topics such as agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code.

How do I install or use techne?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the techne GitHub repository at github.com/lynxlangya/techne. The project has 104 stars and 18 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does techne use?

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

What are the best alternatives to techne?

The top alternatives to techne on Agent Skills Hub include claudepro-directory, ai-skills, agnix. 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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