AI & Developer Tools · v1.1 on npm · 2026
agent-skills
a lean, curated workflow kit for coding agents: short skills backed by real command-line tools
Problem
Off-the-shelf agent skills and workflows kept swelling: every session loaded pages of prose the agent mostly didn’t need, bloating the context before the real work began. And as models got better, they needed less upfront steering; the heavy scaffolding started to read as over-engineering. Dylan wanted a kit of his own: small, curated, and built to let the agent use its best native capabilities.
Approach
agent-skills is that workflow kit, built lean on purpose. Three short skills (compass settles a direction with disposable prototypes, relay hands off bounded work for one compact receipt, cairn leaves a durable marker where it belongs) and a running experiment: give the agent a real command-line tool instead of more prose. The mechanics live in two small CLIs, a decision shelf and a delivery tool, so each skill stays a few paragraphs.
Outcome
v1.1.0 is live on npm and installs across three agent harnesses from one command, with 80 tests keeping the installer honest. It is an active workbench: Dylan keeps tweaking, testing, and trialling new pieces to see what earns a permanent spot in the kit.
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