Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
arena
Agent skill frombacknotprop/pstack
Spawn N parallel candidates at the same task, pick a base, graft the strongest parts of the losers into it. Use for /arena, 'arena this', 'throw it in the arena', or when one attempt at a non-trivial artifact would lock in the wrong shape.
How to install arena
npx skills add backnotprop/pstack# or add only this skill to Claude Code: copy the folder
skills/arena/
# into
~/.claude/skills/arena/ (all projects)
.claude/skills/arena/ (one project)
1# Arena23Open a todolist with one entry per phase (Frame, Fan out, Cross-judge, Pick, Graft, Verify) before launching anything.45## Phase A: Frame67Every candidate gets the same prompt, so the prompt is the contract.891. State the artifact each candidate is producing.102. Derive the rubric, 3-6 concrete gradeable criteria for what success looks like on *this* task. It is the picker's tool in Phase D. Candidates only see the task.11…
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