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applying-skill-best-practices

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Fine to try.

By jamesgray-ai/handsonai (GitHub) · writing · 10 stars · scanned at commit 5a3a1d9

Best-practice standards for building Agent Skills on any platform: checking for an existing skill first, scoping it to one job, writing a description that triggers, keeping instructions lean, choosing model and effort settings, and preparing test cases from real examples. Use whenever a skill is being created, changed, reviewed or tested, alongside the platform's own skill creator: building one from scratch, turning a conversation or a repeated task into something reusable, updating or fixing a…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'applying-skill-best-practices' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'applying-skill-best-practices' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named applying-skill-best-practices already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jamesgray-ai/handsonai' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '5a3a1d92737e42de232f377ba9ce3f5bd7d64433' -- 'plugins/handsonai/skills/applying-skill-best-practices' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/handsonai/skills/applying-skill-best-practices' ~/.agents/skills/'applying-skill-best-practices' && 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/'applying-skill-best-practices' ~/.claude/skills/'applying-skill-best-practices' (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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