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Agent skills for building native macOS apps. Installed as a Claude Code and Codex plugin from .claude-plugin/, or through npx skills add. AGENTS.md at the root is a copy of this file (.claude/CLAUDE.md); keep them identical. - skills/<stage>/<name>/SKILL.md, stages in pipeline order: start, plan, code, design, ship. - References sit next to SKILL.md (recipes.md, patterns.md) and are linked relatively. Scripts go in scripts/, templates in template/. - agents/openai.yaml in every skill: Codex display name and short description. A user-invoked skill…
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In this repository22 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- agent-cliSkill
- improve-architectureSkill
- os-integrationsSkill
- performanceSkill
- swift-swiftuiSkill
- app-iconSkill
- design-from-appSkill
- design-kitSkill
- design-systemSkill
- layout-gridSkill
- mac-designSkill
- ux-designSkill
- cloneSkill
- researchSkill
- user-storiesSkill
- build-and-verifySkill
- improve-loopSkill
- test-mac-appSkill
- app-briefSkill
- bamaSkill
- new-mac-appSkill
The file
We split this CLAUDE.md into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈2
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
3
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 24
Follow Matt Pocock's writing-for-agents rules:
- Distinctive: line 31
Every step ends on a checkable condition.
- Distinctive: line 38
No em dashes. Plain words, short sentences, active voice.
- Very specific: line 42
Create skills/<stage>/<name>/SKILL.md and agents/openai.yaml.
- Very specific: line 43
Add it to plugin.json skills, the README table, and the router (skills/start/bama/SKILL.md).
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 26,980 CLAUDE.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
BAMA
Agent skills for building native macOS apps. Installed as a Claude Code and
Codex plugin from .claude-plugin/, or through npx skills add.
AGENTS.md at the root is a copy of this file (.claude/CLAUDE.md);
keep them identical.
Layout
skills/<stage>/<name>/SKILL.md, stages in pipeline order:start,plan,code,design,ship.- References sit next to
SKILL.md(recipes.md,patterns.md) and are linked relatively. Scripts go inscripts/, templates intemplate/. agents/openai.yamlin every skill: Codex display name and short description. A user-invoked skill also setspolicy.allow_implicit_invocation: false..claude-plugin/plugin.jsonlists every shipped skill inskills.specs/<app>.md: build plans for small apps, taken from Onyx. Each has Brief, How it works, Stories, Gotchas, and a "Done when" line, in that order.specs/README.mdlists them.
Writing skills
Follow Matt Pocock's writing-for-agents rules:
- The description is a context pointer: one short sentence on what it is, then "Use when" and one trigger per branch. Front-load the leading word.
- Inline what every branch needs. Push what only some branches need into a sibling file behind a link.
- Every step ends on a checkable condition. Every skill ends with a "Done when" line.
- Prompt the positive. Use a prohibition only as a hard guardrail, next to the positive target.
- Cache only what the environment cannot tell the agent: conventions, reasons, gotchas from real apps.
- One skill calls another with "Call the Skill tool with
<name>". - No em dashes. Plain words, short sentences, active voice.
Adding a skill
- Create
skills/<stage>/<name>/SKILL.mdandagents/openai.yaml. - Add it to
plugin.jsonskills, the README table, and the router (skills/start/bama/SKILL.md). - Run
claude plugin validate . --strict.
Releasing
- Bump
versioninplugin.json. Installed copies update only when this string changes. Keepversionout ofmarketplace.json. - Run
claude plugin validate . --strict. - Merge to
main. Use a merge commit for a branch with contributor commits, so their pull requests show as merged. - On
main, runclaude plugin tag . --push. It createsbama--v<version>. - Run
gh release create bama--v<version> --generate-notes.
Done when claude plugin update bama@bama installs the new version.
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.

