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reuse-before-you-write

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By makifbaysal/tasktrooper (GitHub) · coding · 122 stars · scanned at commit 96d8af7

Use before writing any new function, helper, component or module - find what the repository, the standard library and the installed dependencies already provide, and use an established library instead of hand-rolled code for a non-trivial problem

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'reuse-before-you-write' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'reuse-before-you-write' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named reuse-before-you-write already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/makifbaysal/tasktrooper' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '96d8af7c0a98ecc099980a6d7ce4681b2a0b0fa3' -- 'catalog/agents/backend-developer/skills/reuse-before-you-write' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'catalog/agents/backend-developer/skills/reuse-before-you-write' ~/.agents/skills/'reuse-before-you-write' && 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/'reuse-before-you-write' ~/.claude/skills/'reuse-before-you-write' (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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• makifbaysal/tasktrooper/catalog/agents/data-scientist/skills/reuse-before-you-write
• makifbaysal/tasktrooper/catalog/agents/frontend-developer/skills/reuse-before-you-write
• makifbaysal/tasktrooper/catalog/agents/game-developer/skills/reuse-before-you-write
• makifbaysal/tasktrooper/catalog/agents/mobile-developer/skills/reuse-before-you-write