principles
Skill0 starsChanged 6 months agoNo licenceView on GitHub
General software engineering principles — DRY, SOLID, YAGNI, KISS, naming, code smells, and refactoring. Language-agnostic. Use alongside language-specific skills.
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
13 rules. 0 are common, 13 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 8 edited versions we read keep these.
13
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 8 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Other versions10 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 0
None found.
Edited · 0
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Wrote their own version · 10
- overextended/skills★ 18same name
- umararshad4/honey-stack★ 4same name
- anis-dr/skills★ 3same name
- JeongJaeSoon/agent-skills★ 2same name
- jonmumm/skills★ 2same name
- stainless-code/lossless★ 2same name
- Autocss-com/ai★ 1same name
- pavelsimo/skills★ 1same name
- vasu-devs/Forge★ 1same name
- syanga/astack★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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