addyosmani/agent-skills

Project overview

A collection of 24 structured engineering workflow skills and 8 slash commands designed to enforce senior-level software development discipline in AI coding agents across define, plan, build, verify, review, and ship phases.

Project type

AI Agent · AI Coding

Use cases

Coding & Development

Deployment

Refer to project documentation

License

MIT

Best for

• Developers and AI engineers using AI coding agents who need to enforce consistent, structured software engineering practices across the development lifecycle.

Key capabilities

• Delivers a collection of 24 structured workflow skills covering the define, plan, build, verify, review, and ship phases. It includes a meta-skill responsible for mapping incoming work to the appropriate workflow.
• Features 8 slash commands mapped directly to the development lifecycle, designed to activate the relevant skills automatically.
• Supplies quick-reference material that skills can automatically pull into context when needed.

Limitations and risks

• Requires an underlying AI agent that is capable of accepting system prompts or instruction files.

Getting started

• Setup is rated as easy. Developers can install everything needed by running the command 'npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills'. No coding is required for installation.

Evidence and sources

• GitHub project description: Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
• README: Skills encode the workflows, quality gates, and best practices that senior engineers use when building software. These ones are packaged so AI agents follow them consistently acro…
• README: 8 slash commands that map to the development lifecycle. Each one activates the right skills automatically.
• README: Want fewer manual steps once the spec exists? **`/build auto`** generates the plan and implements every task in a single approved pass — you approve the plan once, then it runs au…
• README: **Fastest path — any agent, one command.** The open [skills CLI](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills) installs into 70+ agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Cline, and m…

Reviewed at: 2026-07-17T05:12:17Z