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pragmatic-programmer

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By wondelai/skills (GitHub) · coding · 2,667 stars · scanned at commit d8d5d75

Apply meta-principles of software craftsmanship: DRY, orthogonality, tracer bullets, and design by contract. Use when the user mentions "best practices", "pragmatic approach", "broken windows", "tracer bullet", "software craftsmanship", "avoid technical debt", "code ownership", or "how do I become a better developer". Also trigger when evaluating build-vs-buy decisions, designing estimation approaches, or choosing between reversible and irreversible architectural decisions. Covers estimation, d…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Other copies in this repository

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• plugins/wondelai-skills/skills/pragmatic-programmer 100/100 · Low risk
• plugins/code-craftsmanship/skills/pragmatic-programmer 100/100 · Low risk

Install

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'pragmatic-programmer' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'pragmatic-programmer' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named pragmatic-programmer already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/wondelai/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'd8d5d75f83da9f16d8aad5bab5f5b341a4770a30' -- 'pragmatic-programmer' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'pragmatic-programmer' ~/.agents/skills/'pragmatic-programmer' && 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/'pragmatic-programmer' ~/.claude/skills/'pragmatic-programmer' (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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