writing-for-agents
Skill4 starsChanged 5 months agoNo licenceView on GitHub
Writing for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md, or tightening agent-facing docs (pointers, Done when, disclosure).
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. 2 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
2
Common
Most of the 173 edited versions we read keep these.
0
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
No licence file, so all rights are reserved — read it at the source. We count its rules but don't quote them. Read them on GitHub.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 173 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Other versions191 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 0
None found.
Edited · 161
- mattpocock/skills★ 309k98% same
- QuivrHQ/quivr★ 40k98% same
- formbricks/formbricks★ 13k98% same
- btriapitsyn/openchamber★ 12k53% same
- openchamber/openchamber★ 12k53% same
- ArcReel/ArcReel★ 6k98% same
- withcoral/coral★ 4.9k98% same
- bestofjs/bestofjs★ 3.1k95% same
- CelestoAI/SmolVM★ 1.1k97% same
- moeru-ai/xsai★ 66598% same
151 more not listed
Wrote their own version · 30
- vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN★ 5.5ksame name
- devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh★ 522same name
- OyadotAI/oya-browser★ 351same name
- WenWuZhiDao/mattpocock-skills-zh★ 27same name
- Integralist/agent-skills★ 20same name
- Suge8/friedbun★ 13same name
- imMamdouhaboammar/matts-skills-into-chatgpt★ 8same name
- T-miracle/codex-skills-zh★ 5same name
- KroxiDev/engineering-skills★ 4same name
- malinskibeniamin/skills★ 4same name
20 more not listed
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
Used alongsideProjects with it also use wait-what, to-questionnaire and 10 more.
Other files people use alongside this one.
Files found in the same public projects as a version of this one, more often than they turn up anywhere else. Each project counts once, large collections count for less, and this file's own repository is left out.
AWSSkillwait-what
Stop. That last message did not land: re-pitch it.
Also in 107 projects that use this
AWSSkillto-questionnaire
Turn a decision you can't fully answer into a questionnaire for someone else to fill in.
Also in 75 projects that use this
liufeng1976Skillsetup-ts-deep-modules
Wire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo so each package is a deep module — implementation hidden in subfolders, reachable only through its entry-point files. User-invoked.
Also in 29 projects that use this
openchamberSkillclack-cli-patterns
Use when creating or modifying OpenChamber CLI commands, prompts, terminal output, non-TTY behavior, `--quiet`, or `--json` behavior.
Also in 3 projects that use this
openchamberSkilldrag-to-reorder
Use when implementing or modifying OpenChamber sortable or drag-to-reorder behavior, especially `@dnd-kit`, touch/mobile interactions, variable-width items, or wrapping layouts.
Also in 3 projects that use this
- +1 more from aws
- +6 more from openchamber
In this repository43 other files it gives its agents.
- skills/council/references/claude.mdCLAUDE.md
- afkSkill
- architecture-decision-recordsSkill
- best-practices-researchSkill
- break-uiSkill
- codebase-designSkill
- codebase-onboardingSkill
- code-reviewSkill
- commit-msgSkill
- councilSkill
- deep-researchSkill
- diagnosing-bugsSkill
- documentSkill
- domain-modelingSkill
- eli5Skill
- explain-codeSkill
- frontend-designSkill
- grillingSkill
- grill-meSkill
- grill-with-docsSkill
- handoffSkill
- implement-planSkill
- implementSkill
- improve-codebase-architectureSkill
- karpathy-guidelinesSkill
- mermaid-diagramsSkill
- plain-askSkill
- prototypeSkill
- prSkill
- remove-slopSkill
- researchSkill
- retroSkill
- show-meSkill
- simplify-thisSkill
- svg-diagramsSkill
- tddSkill
- teachSkill
- test-auditSkill
- to-planSkill
- to-specSkill
- to-ticketsSkill
- wayfinderSkill
- yagniSkill
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