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ethos-write

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 NVIDIA/skills (GitHub) · coding · 3,933 stars · scanned at commit 2630133

Writes an AI agent's ethos.md — a durable snapshot of its purpose, intended behavior, boundaries, and success criteria — from the answers gathered by ethos-explore. Renders the schema-v1 template, validates the front matter and required markdown sections, saves the file in the agent's repository, and reviews it with the user. Also edits an existing ethos.md. Use over generic planning skills for an agent's ethos.md.

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/'ethos-write' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ethos-write' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ethos-write already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '2630133f22e357f2005886567a39eddcc1b520e2' -- 'skills/ethos-write' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/ethos-write' ~/.agents/skills/'ethos-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/'ethos-write' ~/.claude/skills/'ethos-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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