skills
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- This checkout owns standalone personal skills. Edit the real package here; ~/.agents/skills, ~/.codex/skills, and ~/.claude/skills are discovery paths. - When using skill-creator or another skill-authoring workflow, explicitly set its output directory to this checkout for standalone personal skills. Validate the completed package, register it with manage_skills.py register, then run check; generating files alone does not complete local registration. - Resolve an existing skill through the local manifest before updating it. Repository-scoped skills, plugin skills, and app-managed artifact templates keep…
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 repository20 other files it gives its agents.
- agent-efficiency-auditSkill
- dry-codingSkill
- exploratory-testSkill
- graph-think-mapSkill
- guided-codeSkill
- handoffSkill
- issue-analysisSkill
- karin-infoSkill
- local-repo-finderSkill
- milestone-triageSkill
- pr-comment-planSkill
- pr-generatorSkill
- print-debugSkill
- private-isu-tuningSkill
- property-based-testSkill
- propose-pi-extensionsSkill
- research-questionerSkill
- review-codeSkill
- skill-zipSkill
- ts-lint-searcherSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
≈0
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
- Very specific: line 5
When using skill-creator or another skill-authoring workflow, explicitly set its output directory to this checkout for standalone personal …
- Very specific: line 13
Do not copy a package between host directories or run atlantis skills sync to replicate this library.
- Distinctive: line 18
Never overwrite a locally modified install during an update.
- Very specific: line 21
Do not stage all files or publish untracked personal skills automatically.
≈ “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
Skill management
- This checkout owns standalone personal skills. Edit the real package here;
~/.agents/skills,~/.codex/skills, and~/.claude/skillsare discovery paths. - When using skill-creator or another skill-authoring workflow, explicitly set
its output directory to this checkout for standalone personal skills. Validate
the completed package, register it with
manage_skills.py register, then runcheck; generating files alone does not complete local registration. - Resolve an existing skill through the local manifest before updating it. Repository-scoped skills, plugin skills, and app-managed artifact templates keep their owner's prescribed location. Do not patch the bundled creator or plugin cache to impose personal placement rules.
- Do not copy a package between host directories or run
atlantis skills syncto replicate this library. Runpython3 scripts/manage_skills.py checkandpython3 scripts/manage_skills.py linkto inspect or create references. - External packages stay outside this repository. Use the Codex skill installer
through
scripts/manage_skills.py install; preserve source, ref, and license. Never overwrite a locally modified install during an update. - Skills owned by another project stay in that project, or in that project's managed install location. Do not vendor them into this standalone library.
- Do not stage all files or publish untracked personal skills automatically. Review publication scope and local paths before an explicitly requested push.
- Validate changes with
atlantis skills check .,git diff --check, andpython3 scripts/manage_skills.py check. Plugin caches and.systembelong to their respective installers and are outside this library's scope.
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