software-factory

92 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a devops skill usually runs commands, installs tools and uses cloud credentials.

By OpenHands/extensions (GitHub) · devops · 182 stars · scanned at commit b98ac06

Set up an OpenHands "software factory" on GitHub fast: ask only for the repositories and where tickets live (GitHub issues, Jira or Linear), create a working issue-to-PR and PR-review pipeline from the automation catalog with defaults, show what runs, then let the user stop or extend it one step at a time (tune settings, AGENTS.md maintainer, auto-merge, stale-CI and QA add-ons).

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. Expected for a devops skill.

Found in 2 places.

skills/software-factory/SKILL.md, line 52GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN="$GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
skills/software-factory/scripts/factory.py, line 178subprocess.run([*cmd, EXTENSIONS_URL, str(root)], check=True)

Connects to the internet

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

Found in 3 places.

skills/software-factory/scripts/factory.py, line 36import urllib.request
skills/software-factory/scripts/factory.py, line 104req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=data, method=method, headers=headers)
skills/software-factory/scripts/factory.py, line 106with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=60) as resp:

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'software-factory' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'software-factory' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named software-factory already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/OpenHands/extensions' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'b98ac0671a51cc91bab3609bf4d334c7c832dd98' -- 'skills/software-factory' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/software-factory' ~/.agents/skills/'software-factory' && 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/'software-factory' ~/.claude/skills/'software-factory' (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
2026-11-12	`b98ac06`	92