skills — security grade SAFE, quality 52/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 52/100

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 →

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About skills

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. write-a-prd — Create a PRD through an interactive interview, codebase exploration, and module design. Filed as a GitHub issue. prd-to-issues — Break a PRD into independently-grabbable GitHub issues using vertical slices. grill-me — Get relentlessly interviewed about a plan or design until every branch of the decision tree is resolved. 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. triage-issue — Investigate a bug by exploring the codebase, identify the root cause, and file a GitHub issue with a TDD-based fix plan. improve-codebase-architecture — Explore a codebase for architectural improvement opportunities, focusing on deepening shallow modules and improving testability. Tooling & Setup setup-pre-commit — Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged, Prettier, type checking, and tests.

Quick Facts

Stars210,105
Forks18,152
LanguageShell
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseMIT
Quality Score52.3668348382519/100
Open Issues310
Last Updated2026-08-07
Created2026-02-03
Platformsclaude-code, cli
Est. Tokens~11k

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is skills?

skills is Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .claude directory.. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 210.1k GitHub stars.

What programming language is skills written in?

skills is primarily written in Shell.

How do I install or use skills?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the skills GitHub repository at github.com/mattpocock/skills. The project has 210.1k stars and 18152 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.

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