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code-standards

85 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By tamdogood/builder-essential-skills (GitHub) · coding · 227 stars · scanned at commit 1be9984

Apply a disciplined engineering workflow to any code change. Use whenever implementing a feature, fixing a bug, or refactoring — before writing code, not after. Walks orient → baseline → smallest change → test → verify → self-review, and enforces language-agnostic hard gates (don't mass-reformat, keep the linter and type-checker clean, keep the build and tests green, make interface changes additive, protect security invariants).

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/'code-standards' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'code-standards' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named code-standards already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '1be9984bdafbb68eaff400bdd82773a1d41ee7ec' -- 'skills/code-standards' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/code-standards' ~/.agents/skills/'code-standards' && 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/'code-standards' ~/.claude/skills/'code-standards' (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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