🤖 AI Agent Skills

Production-grade AI agent skills for real-world applications — and everyday use

Inspired by addyosmani/agent-skills and forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills

🌐 View the Interactive Skills Browser →

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🎯 What is this?

AI agents are only as good as the instructions they follow. AI Agent Skills is a curated, battle-tested library of skill files — structured markdown prompts — that transform AI coding agents (Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) into disciplined, production-ready engineers.

Unlike generic prompts, these skills encode actual workflows with steps, checkpoints, verification gates, and anti-pattern guards — the same discipline senior engineers bring to every production deployment.

THINK → PLAN → BUILD → TEST → REVIEW → HARDEN → SHIP
  ↓        ↓      ↓       ↓       ↓        ↓        ↓
Clarify  Break  Write  Verify  Quality  Security  Deploy
Goals    Down   Code   Output  Gates    Gates     Live

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🏆 Why This Repo Goes Beyond the Rest

Feature	This Repo	agent-skills	karpathy-skills
Production + Everyday use	✅	Production only	General
Multi-agent orchestration	✅	❌	❌
AI safety & hallucination guards	✅	❌	Partial
RAG / Memory skills	✅	❌	❌
Prompt injection defense	✅	❌	❌
GitHub Pages search UI	✅	❌	❌
30+ curated skills	✅	20 skills	4 principles
Everyday productivity skills	✅	❌	❌

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⚡ Quick Start

Step 1 — Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/DevelopersGlobal/ai-agent-skills.git

Step 2 — Pick a skill and copy it into your agent

Claude / Cursor / Copilot / any agent: Copy the contents of any SKILL.md file into your agent's system prompt, instructions file, or context window.

For Claude Code — add to your project's CLAUDE.md:

cat skills/think-before-coding/SKILL.md >> CLAUDE.md

For Cursor — copy into .cursor/rules/:

cp skills/security-hardening/SKILL.md .cursor/rules/security-hardening.mdc

For Gemini CLI — add to your project's GEMINI.md:

cat skills/goal-driven-execution/SKILL.md >> GEMINI.md

One-liner (any skill, any agent):

# View raw skill content, then paste into your agent
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DevelopersGlobal/ai-agent-skills/main/skills/production-deployment/SKILL.md

Browse and copy skills visually → developersglobal.github.io/ai-agent-skills

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📚 All 30 Skills

🧠 Think — Before You Code

Skill	Description
think-before-coding	Surface assumptions, manage confusion, prevent hallucination
goal-driven-execution	Transform tasks into verifiable goals with success criteria
idea-to-spec	Convert vague ideas into concrete, testable specifications