skills
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Project context for agents working on this repo. Skills live here; the runtime that loads them lives in ~/.hermes/skills/, ~/.claude/skills/, etc. (out of scope for edits). This is a markdown-only repo. No npm, pnpm, make, or test commands.
- Reads credentials
In this repository31 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- auto-pushSkill
- brand-name-checkerSkill
- cavecrewSkill
- caveman-commitSkill
- caveman-compressSkill
- caveman-helpSkill
- caveman-reviewSkill
- cavemanSkill
- caveman-statsSkill
- code-optimizerSkill
- code-reviewSkill
- context-hubSkill
- docs-generatorSkill
- grillingSkill
- grill-meSkill
- handoffSkill
- hermes-configSkill
- idea-validatorSkill
- multi-agent-orchestratorSkill
- oss-readySkill
- prd-generatorSkill
- quick-healthy-recipesSkill
- release-managerSkill
- rtkSkill
- security-setupSkill
- seo-ai-optimizerSkill
- tasks-generatorSkill
- teachSkill
- usability-reviewSkill
- writing-great-skillsSkill
The file
We split this CLAUDE.md into the rules it gives an agent
10 rules. About 0 are common, 5 are distinctive, and 5 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈5
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
5
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 23
Keep each SKILL.md under 500 lines.
- Very specific: line 24
Never edit dist/ artifacts.
- Very specific: line 25
Never commit *-workspace/ or local scratch files.
- Very specific: line 26
Never commit secrets or .env.
- Distinctive: line 28
Do not commit or push without explicit user request.
- Very specific: line 29
Use Conventional Commits (feat:, fix:, chore:, docs:).
- Distinctive: line 31
Run validation against any skill you touched before declaring done.
- Distinctive: line 35
Never re-read files you just wrote.
- Distinctive: line 36
Never re-run commands to "verify" unless outcome was uncertain.
- Distinctive: line 37
Don't echo back large blocks of code or file contents unless asked.
≈ “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
CLAUDE.md — Agent Skills Catalog
Project context for agents working on this repo. Skills live here; the runtime that loads them lives in ~/.hermes/skills/, ~/.claude/skills/, etc. (out of scope for edits).
Commands
- Validate a skill: check frontmatter, naming, version, structure
- Scaffold a new skill:
mkdir -p skills/<name> && touch skills/<name>/SKILL.md
This is a markdown-only repo. No npm, pnpm, make, or test commands.
Architecture
skills/<name>/SKILL.md— required skill definition with YAML frontmatterskills/<name>/references/— on-demand docs the agent loads when the skill triggersskills/<name>/scripts/— executable helpersinstall.sh/remote-install.sh— end-user installers (bash, no deps)
Hard Rules
- Bump
metadata.version(semver) on every SKILL.md edit. - Quote any frontmatter string containing
:#-<>|,&?!. - Keep each SKILL.md under 500 lines. Split overflow into
references/. - Never edit
dist/artifacts. - Never commit
*-workspace/or local scratch files. - Never commit secrets or
.env. - Never add
Co-Authored-By: Claudeto any commit message. - Do not commit or push without explicit user request.
- Use Conventional Commits (
feat:,fix:,chore:,docs:). - Skill
namemust exactly match parent directory name (lowercase, hyphens). - Run validation against any skill you touched before declaring done.
Token Efficiency
- Never re-read files you just wrote. You know the contents.
- Never re-run commands to "verify" unless outcome was uncertain.
- Don't echo back large blocks of code or file contents unless asked.
- Batch related edits into single operations.
- Skip confirmations like "I'll continue..." Just do it.
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