agent-starter-kit
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One-command setup for a new AI coding agent. Installs the essential starter skills (find-skills, agent-browser, karpathy-guidelines, ui-ux-pro-max, caveman, arabic-design, design-taste-frontend, remotion-best-practices) across 70+ agents, plus the core Claude Code plugins/MCPs (frontend-design, superpowers, code-review, playwright, github, claude-md-management). Use when the user is setting up a new project or a fresh agent and asks for "the skills/MCPs I should start with", a "starter pack", or "set up my agent".
In this repository6 other files it gives its agents.
- arabic-designSkill
- claude-arabicSkill
- content-os-builderSkill
- security-reviewSkill
- video-cutSkill
- youtube-chaptersSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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- Very specific: line 55
If an agent loads this skill to set up an environment: run install.sh with the right --agent for the current agent.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill 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
Agent Starter Kit
The skills, plugins, and MCP servers worth installing the moment you open a new agent — bundled into one install. Instead of hunting them down one by one, run the installer and the agent starts with real capabilities: it can find and install more skills on demand, drive a browser, reason with guardrails, design clean UI (Arabic included), review its own code, and automate the browser + GitHub.
What it installs
Tier 1 — Skills (work on 70+ agents via npx skills: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, …):
| Skill | What it gives the agent |
find-skills | Discovers and installs any other skill on demand — the meta-skill |
agent-browser | A real browser the agent controls itself (open, click, fill, verify) |
karpathy-guidelines | Behavior rules: no silent assumptions, minimal solutions, verify before acting |
ui-ux-pro-max | Design-system intelligence — styles, color palettes, font pairings |
caveman | Blunt, no-fluff answers when you want signal over politeness |
arabic-design | Clean Arabic in AI-generated designs (fixes the letter-spacing/RTL traps) |
design-taste-frontend | Design taste for landing pages, portfolios and redesigns — stops templated, generic UI (tasteskill) |
remotion-best-practices | Video in React with Remotion — the official skill, a router carrying 11 nested references (create · markup · captions · render · studio · maps · …) |
Tier 2 — Plugins / MCPs (Claude Code only):
| Plugin / MCP | What it gives Claude Code |
frontend-design | Anthropic's design guidance for polished, non-generic UI |
superpowers | TDD + subagent orchestration workflow (brainstorm → design → build → review) |
code-review | /code-review on any branch/PR — scored, actionable review |
playwright (MCP) | Browser automation & end-to-end testing |
github (MCP) | Read/manage GitHub repos, PRs, and issues from the agent |
claude-md-management | Keeps your CLAUDE.md files organized and current |
How to run it
From the skill directory:
bash install.sh # Claude Code — installs everything
bash install.sh --agent cursor # Cursor — installs the Tier 1 skills
bash install.sh --agent codex # Codex — installs the Tier 1 skills
bash install.sh --agent '*' # every detected agent
bash install.sh --skills-only # skip the Claude-Code-only plugins/MCPsThe script is best-effort and safe to re-run: each item installs independently, and anything it can't install automatically prints the exact manual command to finish it.
When invoked as a skill
If an agent loads this skill to set up an environment: run install.sh with the right
--agent for the current agent. Then confirm what installed and surface any manual
fallback lines the script printed. In Claude Code, remind the user to restart (or run
/plugin) so the new plugins load.
Honest scope note
- Tier 1 skills are genuinely cross-agent —
npx skillstargets 70+ agents. design-taste-frontendis scoped by its own authors to landing pages, portfolios and redesigns — not dashboards, data tables, or multi-step product UI. It is also large (~87KB), so it costs real context when it fires. If a project's UI is a dashboard, or it already has a locked visual system, leave it out of the loop rather than letting it argue with the system you already decided on.remotion-best-practicesis one entry, not twelve. The official repo ships 12 skills, but the router installs with all 11 others nested inside it and every relative link resolving (verified). Installing the single router keeps the agent's skill list clean and loses nothing — do not "fix" this by adding the siblings as separate entries.- Tier 2 is Claude Code only. Codex/Cursor have no "plugin" equivalent. Their two
MCP items (
playwright,github) can still be added to Codex/Cursor through that agent's own MCP config — the script says so when you pass a non-Claude--agent.
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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.