reply-bro
Skill5 starsChanged 11 days agoMITView on GitHub
Rewrites technical review replies as short, natural Slack or PR messages between engineers. Use when asked to make a reply more casual, concise, less formal, or less AI-generated while keeping its main technical point.
In this repository23 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- architecture-knowledge-baseSkill
- audio-transcribeSkill
- better-uiSkill
- brainstormingSkill
- broSkill
- chatgpt-imagegenSkill
- coding-standardsSkill
- decision-roomSkill
- deslopifySkill
- domain-modelingSkill
- frontend-designSkill
- gemini-ttsSkill
- goalSkill
- readbackSkill
- rephraseSkill
- setup-goalSkill
- skill-cleanerSkill
- strunk-writing-qualitySkill
- technical-writingSkill
- tech-specSkill
- tool-installSkill
- type-breakdownSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 4 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 15
Use 3 or 4 short sentences.
- Distinctive: line 16
Start with a positive acknowledgement, such as “Good shout.”
- Distinctive: line 17
Keep only the main technical concern.
- Distinctive: line 20
Use plain, casual language.
≈ “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
Reply bro
Turn the supplied reply into a short message that sounds like an engineer typed it quickly in Slack or a PR discussion.
Rules
- Output only the rewritten message. Do not add headings, bullets, or commentary.
- Use 3 or 4 short sentences.
- Start with a positive acknowledgement, such as “Good shout.”
- Keep only the main technical concern. Cut specification detail, repeated reasoning, and formal language.
- Raise the concern as a question, not a rejection. Use natural phrasing such as “Would this fit here though?” or “It looks like…”.
- End by asking whether a simpler alternative would work, for example: “Maybe keeping
existing.attributeis simpler?” - Use plain, casual language. Avoid sounding certain, argumentative, or like a formal technical review.
Check before replying
Confirm the result starts positively, has 3–4 sentences, makes the concern a question, and ends with the simpler alternative.
Example
Source:
That page is why we should not use
hw.memory.size. It is a hardware metric for a DIMM in a monitored host, not a span attribute for phone RAM. The specification defines it as an UpDownCounter representing the size of a memory module and requires hardware-specific identity attributes. A mobile launch span has none of that. Additionally, calculating the RAM bucket in Honeycomb would require sending and storing the raw RAM value. We should keepsumup.device.ram_bucket.
Reply:
Good shout. Would
hw.memory.sizefit here though? It looks like a host memory-module metric, while we need total RAM on a mobile launch span. Calculating it in Honeycomb would also mean sending raw RAM. Maybe keepingsumup.device.ram_bucketis simpler?
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