zsh-gotchas

92 / 100 · Low risk

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

By laurigates/claude-plugins (GitHub) · coding · 59 stars · scanned at commit 16af2dc

Four zsh expansions that silently rewrite a command: $VAR:word modifiers, a leading =, no word splitting, `path` tied to PATH. Use when a zsh one-liner gives a wrong result or a tool seems missing.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Sends data to these websites: …

The author does not mention this.

Found in 2 places.

tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 51curl "https://…/v1beta/models/$MODEL:generateContent"
tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 65curl "https://…/v1beta/models/${MODEL}:generateContent"

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 10 places.

tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 51curl "https://…/v1beta/models/$MODEL:generateContent"
tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 65curl "https://…/v1beta/models/${MODEL}:generateContent"
tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 88zsh -fc 'echo a; echo ======; echo b'

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tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 120for spec in "ForumViriumHelsinki/infrastructure 2379" "ForumViriumHelsinki/.github 127"; do
tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 137for spec in "ForumViriumHelsinki/infrastructure 2379"; do read -r repo num <<< "$spec"; gh pr view "$num" -R "$repo" --json state; done
tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 179while IFS=$'\t' read -r key title labels path; do
tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 199while IFS=$'\t' read -r key title labels bodyfile; do gh issue create --title "$title" --body-file "$bodyfile"; done < list.tsv
tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 213gh issue list --state open --limit 30 --json number,createdAt
tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 226zsh -fc 'M=models/x; echo "$M:generateContent"; echo "${M}:generateContent"'
tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas/SKILL.md, line 230zsh -fc 'v="a b"; set -- $v; echo "bare: 1=[$1] 2=[$2]"; set -- ${=v}; echo "split: 1=[$1] 2=[$2]"'

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'zsh-gotchas' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'zsh-gotchas' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named zsh-gotchas already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/laurigates/claude-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '16af2dca8c1e706bab01e003bf03a7d19192b346' -- 'tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'tools-plugin/skills/zsh-gotchas' ~/.agents/skills/'zsh-gotchas' && 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/'zsh-gotchas' ~/.claude/skills/'zsh-gotchas' (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
2026-11-09	`16af2dc`	92
2026-11-07	`9d78355`	92