handbook

85 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a productivity skill usually connects to your mail, calendar or notes.

By 5throck/ai-workspace-standards (GitHub) · productivity · 25 stars · scanned at commit 620b4c9

Document Production Workflow — generates searchable, themed handbooks as static sites (GitHub Pages). Three modes: standalone handbook, lecture companion (reads a slide pipeline's slide_deck.md — co-deck integration), full course site. Responds to "make handbook", "create handbook", "build course site", "companion handbook" (triggered by Korean phrases too). H-Stage pipeline (H-0 through H-7) for creation. M-Stage maintenance mode (M-1 through M-5) upgrades existing handbooks: upstream sync, ch…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a productivity skill.

Found in 2 places.

templates/common/.agents/skills/handbook/assets/js/lang-switcher.js, line 90return fetch(pageUrl, { method: 'HEAD' })
templates/common/.agents/skills/handbook/assets/js/site-search.js, line 208return fetch(doc.url)

Changes files outside its own folder

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

templates/common/.agents/skills/handbook/references/AUTHORING_GUIDELINES.md, line 158Example: Not `mkdir ~/harness-lab` but `mkdir harness-lab` (works on macOS/Linux, PowerShell, and CMD).

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'handbook' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'handbook' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named handbook already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/5throck/ai-workspace-standards' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '620b4c9ddaea6465cd47dab32037157926658aa5' -- 'templates/common/.agents/skills/handbook' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'templates/common/.agents/skills/handbook' ~/.agents/skills/'handbook' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'handbook' ~/.claude/skills/'handbook' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-11	`620b4c9`	85
2026-11-08	`6ecfbe0`	85
2026-11-06	`3a4d040`	85

Also found in

Identical copies of this skill exist at:

5throck/ai-workspace-standards/templates/common/.claude/skills/handbook
5throck/ai-workspace-standards/templates/common/.codex/skills/handbook
5throck/ai-workspace-standards/templates/common/.gemini/skills/handbook
5throck/ai-workspace-standards/templates/common/.hermes/skills/handbook
5throck/ai-workspace-standards/templates/common/skills/handbook