Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
using-agent-skills
Agent skill fromaddyosmani/agent-skills
Discovers and invokes agent skills. Use when starting a session, or when you need to decide which skill or workflow applies to the piece of work at hand. This is the meta-skill that governs how all other skills are discovered and invoked.
How to install using-agent-skills
npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills# or add only this skill to Claude Code: copy the folder
skills/using-agent-skills/
# into
~/.claude/skills/using-agent-skills/ (all projects)
.claude/skills/using-agent-skills/ (one project)
1# Using Agent Skills23## Overview45Agent Skills is a collection of engineering workflow skills organized by development phase. Each skill encodes a specific process that senior engineers follow. This meta-skill helps you discover and apply the right skill for your current task.67## Skill Discovery89When a task arrives, identify the development phase and apply the corresponding skill:1011```12Task arrives13 │14 ├── Don't know what you want yet? ──────→ interview-me15 ├── Have a rough concept, need variants? → idea-refine16 ├── New project/feature/change? ──→ spec-driven-development17 ├── No quality bar written down? ──→ constraint-driven-development18 ├── Have a spec, need tasks? ──────→ planning-and-task-breakdown19 ├── Implementing code? ────────────→ incremental-implementation20 │ ├── UI work? ─────────────────→ frontend-ui-engineering21 │ ├── API work? ────────────────→ api-and-interface-design22 │ ├── Need better context? ─────→ context-engineering23 │ ├── Need doc-verified code? ───→ source-driven-development24 │ └── Stakes high / unfamiliar code? ──→ doubt-driven-development25 ├── Writing/running tests? ────────→ test-driven-development26 │ └── Browser-based? ───────────→ browser-testing-with-devtools27 ├── Something broke? ──────────────→ debugging-and-error-recovery28 ├── Reviewing code? ───────────────→ code-review-and-quality29 │ ├── Too complex? ─────────────→ code-simplification30…
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