agent-skills
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This repository is a direct package of 51Code-owned skills. Each top-level skill directory contains a SKILL.md; the front matter is the source of truth for its name and description. - Edit skill source here, never in installed consumer copies. - Keep bootstrap.sh pinned to skills@1.5.14 and explicit skill names. Use #ref for reviewed tags; when upstream has no stable tag and the manager cannot resolve a raw commit, fetch and verify that exact commit before passing its local checkout to…
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 repository16 other files it gives its agents.
- code-reviewSkill
- gemini-files-apiSkill
- harness-engineeringSkill
- hint-overlay-visual-verificationSkill
- ios-xcodegenSkill
- lifecycle-and-side-effects-correctnessSkill
- local-model-servingSkill
- mechanism-auditSkill
- meeting-transcriptionSkill
- public-source-release-auditSkill
- silent-pushes-setupSkill
- spec-creation-updatingSkill
- swift-testingSkill
- swiftui-view-refactorSkill
- xcode-buildSkill
- xcode-cloudSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 1 is common, 1 is distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
≈1
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
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
- could be automatic: a setting could enforce it
- Very specific: line 8
Keep bootstrap.sh pinned to skills@1.5.14 and explicit skill names.
- Distinctive: line 12
Do not add a registry, generated catalog, lock generator, sync planner, or backward-compatibility layer.
- Very specific: line 14
Keep WORKFLOW.md and scripts/verify.sh as the small, non-mutating Autopilot and Symphony integration boundary.
- Very specific: line 16
When a skill is added or removed, update the owned list in bootstrap.sh and README.md in the same change.
- Common: line 18
Keep public changes generic.
≈ “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
Agent Guide
This repository is a direct package of 51Code-owned skills. Each top-level
skill directory contains a SKILL.md; the front matter is the source of truth
for its name and description.
- Edit skill source here, never in installed consumer copies.
- Keep
bootstrap.shpinned toskills@1.5.14and explicit skill names. Use#reffor reviewed tags; when upstream has no stable tag and the manager cannot resolve a raw commit, fetch and verify that exact commit before passing its local checkout to the manager. - Do not add a registry, generated catalog, lock generator, sync planner, or backward-compatibility layer.
- Keep
WORKFLOW.mdandscripts/verify.shas the small, non-mutating Autopilot and Symphony integration boundary. - When a skill is added or removed, update the owned list in
bootstrap.shandREADME.mdin the same change. - Keep public changes generic. Do not commit credentials, machine paths, internal task links, private context, or company-only notes.
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