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John Ryan

Skills for agents

Skills

Hand agents the process. Keep the decisions yourself.

Agents can write the code. What they usually lack is the context: how I review, how I ship, what "done" means on my team. A skill packages that knowledge into a small, version-controlled folder the agent loads only when the task calls for it.

Install the whole set in one command, or browse the skills below and take only what fits how you work.

11 skills · MIT licensed

Install what you need

Universal install

Works with Cursor, Codex, and others. Pick the skills you want or install them all.

npx skills add jcottam/agent-resources
Update with npx skills update

Single skill

npx skills add jcottam/agent-resources/skills/engineering/ship

Claude Code plugin

Install the complete set as a managed plugin. Claude Code keeps it updated.

/plugin marketplace add jcottam/agent-resources
/plugin install agent-resources
Updates with the plugin

Thinking

Challenge assumptions, clarify decisions, and make the work legible.

Prototyping

Shape ideas quickly, test the structure, and put lightweight work online.

Building

Orient, continue, review, and refine production code.

Shipping

Package, document, release, and publish finished work.

More skills

I use these often. Special thanks to the people who made them.

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