Coding & Dev Tools
Coding agent skills teach AI agents repeatable engineering workflows: reviewing pull requests, writing tests, refactoring safely, and enforcing house style. Install one SKILL.md and your agent applies the same checklist every time, whether you use Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or another agent.
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athola Skill Justify 2Audits changes for additive bias and Iron Law compliance. Use when reviewing completed work before merging or after AI-assisted implementation.
- athola Skill Discourse 2
Scans HN, Lobsters, Reddit, and tech blogs for community experience reports. Use when gathering practitioner opinions on a technology or approach.
- athola Bundle Pr Prep 2
Prepares pull requests by running quality gates, drafting descriptions, and validating tests. Use when completing a feature and ready for review.
- athola Bundle Dorodango 2
Polishes working code through successive quality passes in fresh subagents. Use after tests pass when code needs multi-dimension refinement before release.
- athola Skill Response Compression 2
Compresses verbose responses by removing filler and framing to save 200-400 tokens. Use when responses feel bloated or context is filling fast.
- athola Bundle Dependency Verification 2
Verifies a package exists before install, defending against hallucination and slopsquatting. Use when adding, recommending, or installing a package.
- athola Skill Additive Bias Defense 2
Inverts burden of proof for code additions. Use when reviewing PRs, planning refactors, or running unbloat to challenge every addition's necessity.
- athola Bundle Supply Chain Advisory 2
Audits dependency supply chains for bad versions, lockfile drift, and artifact integrity. Use when adding deps, handling incidents, or releasing a plugin.
- athola Bundle Release Health Gates 2
Standardizes release approvals with GitHub-aware checklists and deployment gates. Use before releasing to production to verify all gates pass.
- athola Skill Night Market Collective Memory 2
Search and record project memory (Discussions, journal, ADRs). Use before re-investigating anything. Do not use for settled battles; see failure-archaeology.
- athola Skill Night Market Validation And QA 2
Enforce evidence bar, coverage gates, and regression guards. Use when adding tests or claiming done. Do not use to run suites; use night-market-operations.
- athola Bundle Escalation Governance 2
Assess whether to escalate models. Use when evaluating reasoning depth.
- athola Bundle Graduated Implementation 2
Ramps implementation ambition a notch only after the prior increment is understood. Use when building a feature you must understand, not just ship.
- athola Skill Session Replay 2
Converts a Claude Code session JSONL file into an animated GIF terminal replay. Use when creating demos or visual evidence from past sessions.
- athola Bundle Voice Generate 2
Generates text in a learned writing voice. Use when drafting content that must match a specific author's style profile extracted by voice-extract.
- athola Bundle Plugin Review 2
Review plugin quality with tiered checks and dependency scoping. Use for PR and pre-release audits.
- athola Bundle Precommit Setup 2
Configures pre-commit hooks for linting, type checking, formatting, and testing. Use when setting up a new project or adding quality gates to an existing one.
- athola Bundle Clear Context 2
Manages context overflow by handing off to a fresh subagent at 80% usage. Use when context pressure is critical and work must continue uninterrupted.
- athola Bundle Error Patterns 2
Provides error classification, recovery, and graceful-degradation patterns. Use when implementing error handling or debugging resilience failures in any skill.
- athola Bundle Session To Post 2
Converts a Claude Code session into a blog post, case study, or Reddit post. Use when publishing dev blog content or community posts from real sessions.
- athola Bundle Scope Guard 2
Scores feature worthiness and enforces branch-size limits against overengineering. Use when evaluating whether a feature belongs in the current scope or branch.
- athola Skill Challenge 2
Presents adaptive codebase challenge questions with multiple-choice and trace exercises. Use when testing contributor knowledge of the codebase.
- athola Bundle Bug Review 2
Hunts bugs with evidence trails. Use when investigating unexpected behavior or before merging code with potential hidden defects.
- athola Skill Stack Mode 2
Detects shared stack membership and iterates a command across all PRs in base-to-tip order. Use when a command supports --stack flag for multi-PR iteration.
- athola Skill Stack Push 2
Pushes all branches in a stack and opens or updates one dependent PR per slice. Use after stack-create to publish the stack or after adding commits to a slice.
- athola Bundle Voice Learn 2
Improves a voice profile by learning from manual edits. Use after editing generated text to refine registers and close voice drift over time.
- athola Bundle Rules Eval 2
Evaluate Claude Code rules in .claude/rules/. Use for frontmatter, globs, and quality audits.
- athola Bundle Knowledge Intake 2
Processes external resources into stored knowledge with quality scoring and routing. Use when ingesting articles, papers, or docs into a memory palace.
- athola Skill Night Market Debugging Playbook 2
Triage night-market failures by symptom (hooks, CI, tests). Use when a check fails unexpectedly. Do not use for routine gates; use night-market-operations.
- athola Bundle Metacognitive Self Mod 2
Analyze and improve the improvement process. Use for detecting regressions and meta-optimization.
- athola Bundle Knowledge Locator 2
Searches and navigates stored knowledge in memory palaces. Use when looking for previously stored information or cross-referencing concepts across palaces.
- athola Bundle Python Performance 2
Profiles Python code for performance bottlenecks and memory issues. Use when Python code is slow or when profiling for optimization before a release.
- athola Bundle Night Market Diagnostics Toolkit 2
Run and interpret repo diagnostic scripts (ratchets, validators, token stats). Use when measuring health. Do not use to run tests; use night-market-operations.
- athola Skill Night Market Failure Archaeology 2
Chronicles settled battles, reverts, and dead ends. Use when a fix echoes a past failure. Do not use for live triage; use night-market-debugging-playbook.
- athola Skill Code Quality Principles 2
Applies KISS, YAGNI, and SOLID principles for clean code with reduced complexity. Use when refactoring or reviewing code for over-engineering.
- athola Skill Safety Critical Patterns 2
Applies NASA Power of 10 rules for safety-critical verifiable code. Use when auditing financial, medical, or high-reliability system code.
Frequently asked questions
What are Coding & Dev Tools agent skills?
Coding agent skills teach AI agents repeatable engineering workflows: reviewing pull requests, writing tests, refactoring safely, and enforcing house style. Install one SKILL.md and your agent applies the same checklist every time, whether you use Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or another agent.
Which Coding & Dev Tools skills are most installed?
Popular Coding & Dev Tools skills on SkillMD right now include justify, discourse, pr-prep. Rankings shift as installs change; sort this page by "Most installs" for the live list.
Do Coding & Dev Tools skills work with Claude Code and Cursor?
Yes. Every skill here ships as a SKILL.md file, an open format that works in Claude Code, Claude.ai, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and 60+ other agents. Install one with npx skillmds@latest add <owner>/<name>, or copy the file into your agent's skills directory.