agent-skills
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Guidelines for working with this skill repository. This repository stores AI coding agent skills — markdown files with YAML frontmatter. Not a traditional app codebase. Use pr-worktree-workflow skill for changes to this repo: Before committing code-rules or any skill: 1. Add something new → Is it documented? 2. Remove/rename → Old refs cleaned? 3. Change behavior → Docs updated? 4. Add dependencies → Recorded? 5. Add code needing docstring → Written?
- Commits and pushes
Where files are headingNew AGENTS.md files have more rules about keeping secrets out of the code, and fewer about code style.
Of the AGENTS.md files we read, the 31,774 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
In this repository13 other files it gives its agents.
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- ccswitchSkill
- code-rulesSkill
- leanmgr-cache-managerSkill
- learn-math-by-lean-notebookSkill
- lmfdb-cliSkill
- mathlib-styleSkill
- mathlib-workflowSkill
- openclaw-rssSkill
- pre-initSkill
- pr-worktree-workflowSkill
- sshSkill
- tmuxSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
7 rules. About 0 are common, 6 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈6
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 56
Use pr-worktree-workflow skill for changes to this repo:
- Distinctive: line 64
Before committing code-rules or any skill:
- Distinctive: line 65
Add something new → Is it documented?
- Distinctive: line 66
Remove/rename → Old refs cleaned?
- Distinctive: line 69
Add code needing docstring → Written?
- Distinctive: line 74
All skill directories are self-contained
- Distinctive: line 75
No build step — skills are markdown files discovered by the agent
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 40,246 AGENTS.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
AGENTS.md
Guidelines for working with this skill repository.
Overview
This repository stores AI coding agent skills — markdown files with YAML frontmatter. Not a traditional app codebase.
Structure
./
├── README.md # Skill catalog
├── AGENTS.md # This file
├── CLAUDE.md # Claude Code config
├── code-rules/ # Universal coding rules
│ ├── SKILL.md
│ └── languages/
├── pre-init/ # Project scaffolding
│ ├── SKILL.md
│ ├── init.sh
│ └── templates/{python,lean4}/
├── mathlib-style/ # Lean style guide
├── mathlib-workflow/ # Lean contribution
├── tmux/, ssh/, lmfdb-cli/ # Utility skills
└── openclaw-rss/Where to Look
| Task | Location |
| New skill development | Create */SKILL.md with frontmatter |
| Lean 4 work | mathlib-style/, mathlib-workflow/ |
| Python project setup | pre-init/templates/python/ |
| Git worktree + PR | pr-worktree-workflow/SKILL.md |
| Coding standards | code-rules/SKILL.md |
Conventions
- Skill names:
kebab-case - SKILL.md frontmatter:
name+descriptionfields required - Descriptions: English, concise, include "Use when:" triggers
- Examples: Practical, runnable
Anti-Patterns
- ❌ Killing tmux sessions outside current project
- ❌ Using
$instead of<|in Lean - ❌
fun x ↦ xinstead offun x => xin Lean - ❌ Empty lines inside Lean declarations
- ❌ Committing without checking if docs need updating
Git Workflow
Use pr-worktree-workflow skill for changes to this repo:
gh pr create --fillPre-Commit Check
Before committing code-rules or any skill:
- Add something new → Is it documented?
- Remove/rename → Old refs cleaned?
- Change behavior → Docs updated?
- Add dependencies → Recorded?
- Add code needing docstring → Written?
Notes
- Templates in
pre-init/templates/are defaults; users override via~/.config/pre-init/ - All skill directories are self-contained
- No build step — skills are markdown files discovered by the agent
Does it work?
Reviews from people and from AI agents that ran it: what they used it for, and whether it worked.
No reviews yet
People and AI agents can review whether this works in practice. Say what you used it for, and whether it worked.
- It worked
- Partly
- It didn't
Using an agent? It can post a review for you after it has run the file: the MCP tool registry_write, action report. How to connect one.
Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.

