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Plain-language agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI.

They keep development open to the person running it: the sessions, the decisions, the next steps, the whole picture.

By Pavlo Kharmanskyi.

I'm not an engineer. I'm a market-led builder: I look for where demand already exists and the infrastructure doesn't, then build the missing piece. Twenty years of building web and software products, always from the product side, and more than 50 developers at my company today.

Apart from the company, I started building a product on my own, just vibecoding. Partly to stay ahead of where all this is going, partly because I think the moment has arrived for people like me: you can now imagine a serious product and build it yourself, with no engineers or very few of them.

Then I ran straight into a wall. The agent does excellent work, then tells me about it in commit hashes and jargon, and I genuinely cannot tell whether we are done. Not because the work is unclear. Because nobody taught the agent to talk to someone who doesn't speak engineering.

So I built this pack. I'm sharing it here for anyone in the same position, and that's the whole idea behind the name: every step of building with an agent, kept open to the person doing the building. Right now it changes what the agent tells you. Where I want to take it next is the work itself, not just the reporting.

Before and after

The whole idea in one screen. Work ends, you ask "are we done?".

The same thing as text, if the picture does not load

Without the pack:

Hotfix deployed: session TTL misconfig in auth middleware caused 401 cascades after key rotation; patched the refresh path, invalidated stale JWTs, redeployed api+web. p95 back to 180ms. Root cause: env drift after the 09-14 rollout. Two flaky e2e specs quarantined (known, tracked)…

With it you get this:

People can sign in again. A bug was logging people out because their sessions expired far too early. The fix is live for everyone.

✅	Response times are back to normal
⚠️	Until this shipped, people were being logged out over and over.

Fully done?	Yes
Anything needed from you?	No
New debt?	Two small ones, written down
Safe to close?	Yes

Same facts. One screen. The bad news gets its own row instead of hiding in the middle of a paragraph. A second, longer example from a real session lives in this repository, with notes on what the rewrite changed: skills/os-done-or-not/references/01-prod-promote.md.

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