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102 skills · 11 categories · MIT

Skills for real engineers

A practical skill system for engineers who want to use AI without giving up their standards. Install the ones you use, then type a slash command. This is a fork of mattpocock/skills extended with framework scaffolding, the full git and PR lifecycle, and daily engineering workflows.
Install
npx skills@latest add AlexRebula/skills

Or as a read-only Claude Code plugin: /plugin marketplace add AlexRebula/skills

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By the numbers

This fork, at a glance

Generated straight from the repo, so these numbers never go stale.
Skills

102

Categories

11

AlexRebula original

62

Diverged from upstream

20

How this fits together

Skills, flows, and the harness comparison

This fork installs into your agent harness, whether that's Claude Code, Codex, or anything else built on the Agent Skills standard, rather than replacing it. See how that differs from a hard harness like SwarmForge or T3 Code, and what "skill," "flow," and "harness" actually mean here. Read Skills, flows, and harnesses.

Choose your category

Flows tailored to you

Choose which persona category best fits you and we'll suggest the workflows and skills for you.
Software Engineering
Teaching & Mentoring
Running the practice
Personal knowledge work

Don't know where to start? Skip the picker and run /ask-alex instead. It works like Matt Pocock's ask-matt, scoped to this fork, and names the skill or sequence that fits your situation.

The Flow

Start the day

Pick up where the last session left off before writing anything new.

  • /ask-alex

    Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the whole skill set in this repo.

  • /standup-prep

    Daily session startup coordinator. Runs preflight → session context → repo status + WIP sweep → open PR sweep → morning brief → file write → Asana sync.

  • /standup-prep-preflight

    Composite pre-flight: runs `/check-prior-work`, `/load-oss-standards`, and `/load-dependency-chain` in sequence.

  • /check-prior-work

    Scans context for a `<conversation-summary>` block and extracts earlier session work for continuity.

  • /load-session-context

    Load the session index and latest wrap file; check for an existing morning brief for today.

  • /load-session-guidelines

    Load all session guidelines in one go: Karpathy coding rules, OSS quality standards, and PR/branch conventions. Run at the start of every session before any user task.

The order above is a suggestion. Skip a skill, or run them in whatever order fits your work.

Select this stage to browse each skill in more depth.

You just saw the shape. Read the Flow in detail for why these stages actually fit together.