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cast-bakeoff

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By codecast-sh/codecast (GitHub) · coding · 44 stars · scanned at commit fc0f0d8

Try several approaches to the same problem in parallel and compare the results side by side. Forks this conversation once per approach, waits for the branches to settle, then lays out each branch's diff, evidence and cost with a verdict. Use when two or more designs are plausible and the cheapest way to choose is to build each, or when asked to bake off, race, or compare approaches.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'cast-bakeoff' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'cast-bakeoff' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named cast-bakeoff already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/codecast-sh/codecast' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'fc0f0d8c2340edbbdb9708d9a8eacf22aaa1d67b' -- 'packages/cli/skills/cast-bakeoff' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'packages/cli/skills/cast-bakeoff' ~/.agents/skills/'cast-bakeoff' && 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/'cast-bakeoff' ~/.claude/skills/'cast-bakeoff' (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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