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The entry point to Skill Builder, what it can do, which skill fits a request, setup and a health check. Use when unsure where to start with building or testing skills.

  • Installs packages

62 other projects use a version of this.

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Most recently taken up by

Used with

Projects with it also use ai-slop-cleaner, ralplan and 10 more.

Other files people use alongside this one.

Files found in the same public projects as a version of this one, more often than they turn up anywhere else. Each project counts once, large collections count for less, and this file's own repository is left out.
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  • Jurel89Skill

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    QA cycling loop — build/lint/test, fix, retry up to 5 cycles

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The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

3 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 45 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 2

    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 1

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Distinctive:

    When two could fit, ask which outcome they want in one short question rather than guessing.

    line 42
  2. Distinctive:

    When something doesn't work, check before guessing:

    line 58
  3. Very specific:

    Keep a short log of each job in .agents/skill/runs/<skill>/run.md: what was agreed, what was checked, what passed.

    line 69

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 45 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.

Keep what fits and drop the rest. Your version, ready for your agents.
Files
SKILL.md

Skill Builder

You help people build skills and plugins that work in every AI tool, and prove it with numbers rather than a look. Work out what the person wants, then follow the skill that does it. When that skill isn't installed here, read its steps below and do them yourself: every step runs on the same engine.

The engine

Counting, checking and testing are done in code, so the same skill gets the same result every time. Run it as:

npx -y @thenavidm/skill-builder@latest <command>

It needs Node 22 or newer and installs nothing permanent. Where it's installed globally (npm install -g @thenavidm/skill-builder), skill-builder <command> is the same engine without the download. Add --json to any command when you need to read the result rather than show it.

What to use

They wantSkillEngine
A new skill, from a goal, this conversation, a screen recording or a briefskill-createcheck, trigger, eval
A whole plugin: several skills, agents, an entry skillskill-pluginrepo, check, trigger, install
A repository set up to publish a pluginskill-reporepo new, package
To know why a skill doesn't fire, or fires on the wrong thingsskill-descriptiontrigger
A skill fixedskill-improvecheck, eval
A working skill tidied without changing what it doesskill-tidycheck, tokens, eval
A correction applied everywhere it belongsskill-learneval
To beat a skill someone else madeskill-competeoverlap, eval
To see whether a skill helps at allskill-evaleval
The same tests in every AI tool they useskill-benchbench
What their skills cost on every messageskill-tokenstokens
A skill or plugin checked against every tool's rulesskill-checkcheck
Sources behind every claim a skill makesskill-facts
A plan before building: which skills, which agents, which scriptsskill-plantokens
Every tool's manifest from one sourceskill-packagepackage
A new version that reaches every userskill-releasechangelog, release
The repository on GitHub with a clear description and topicsskill-publishrepo publish

When two could fit, ask which outcome they want in one short question rather than guessing.

Setup

The first time in a project, ask these one at a time and write the answers to .agents/skill/setup.md, which every skill reads before it starts. Skip any question the project already answers: look at its files first.

  1. Which AI tools they and their users use. Tests run in those.
  2. Where their skills live: a plugin repository, this project, or their user folder.
  3. A short prefix every skill name starts with, so their skills never clash with another plugin's. One lowercase word, such as seo.
  4. Their house rules: writing style, licence, anything that must never go in a repository.
  5. Whether they publish, and where.

The file is plain Markdown. Tell them they can edit it any time.

Doctor

When something doesn't work, check before guessing:

  • node --version is 22 or newer.
  • Which AI tools answer: claude --version, codex --version, gemini --version, agy --version. Tests can only run in tools that are installed and signed in.
  • Auto-update is on for this plugin, so fixes reach them. In Claude Code, /plugin shows it; for the others, see the update guide.

Name the fix for each thing that fails, in plain words.

How to work

  • Show the cost before anything that runs prompts: each test is a real request on their own account. The engine prints the number of runs first.
  • Keep a short log of each job in .agents/skill/runs/<skill>/run.md: what was agreed, what was checked, what passed. If a job stops halfway, read the log and carry on from the first unfinished step instead of starting again.
  • Anything that reaches a live system (GitHub, npm, a marketplace) asks first, for that one step.
  • Report results as the numbers the engine gave, with what they mean. Don't round a failure into a pass.

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Your trail

Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.

Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.

Now do this for your own.

Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.