builder-essential-skills

A repository for skills that are essential to my daily work

Multi-agent — Targets three or more agents

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18 skills (18 skills found in its SKILL.md files)
8 forks (8 forks)
2mo ago last update (Last updated 2mo ago)

Install

Skills CLI

npx skills add tamdogood/builder-essential-skills

Asks which skills and agents to install. Just one: npx skills add tamdogood/builder-essential-skills --skill async-learning-teacher — add -g for every project.

Claude Code

git clone https://github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skillscp -r "builder-essential-skills/skills/async-learning-teacher" ~/.claude/skills/

Copies the async-learning-teacher skill into ~/.claude/skills/ for every project (use .claude/skills/ for one project). Repeat for the other skills listed below.

Plugin

/plugin marketplace add tamdogood/builder-essential-skills

Run inside Claude Code if the repository ships a plugin marketplace, then pick plugins from /plugin.

Skills can run code on your machine — read the SKILL.md first.

What it does

Filter skills

In the author's own words, from each skill's SKILL.md.

async-learning-teacher

Transform saved links, papers, articles, posts, videos, and reference collections into approachable AI teaching artifacts for later study. Use when a user wants to queue learning material, create a readable explanation from a source, teach a paper or post step by step, or run an interactive tutor that validates understanding over multiple sessions.
skills/async-learning-teacher/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
build-scenario-tests

Inspect an unfamiliar repository, turn a focused Markdown behavior scenario into a deterministic test in the repository's native test stack, run it, and preserve traceability between intent and code. Use when asked to add scenario tests, compile acceptance criteria or Given/When/Then Markdown into executable tests, reproduce a user-visible regression, or convert a narrow workflow specification in…
skills/build-scenario-tests/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
code-standards

Apply a disciplined engineering workflow to any code change. Use whenever implementing a feature, fixing a bug, or refactoring — before writing code, not after. Walks orient → baseline → smallest change → test → verify → self-review, and enforces language-agnostic hard gates (don't mass-reformat, keep the linter and type-checker clean, keep the build and tests green, make interface changes additi…
skills/code-standards/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
create-marketing-kit

Create truthful, human-centered marketing campaigns for an app or product, including positioning, channel copy, original artwork, editable layouts, README banners, and selective website integration. Use when asked to make launch materials, promotional artwork, social assets, campaign kits, ads, or marketing content from an existing product; to adapt a visual reference without copying it; or to ad…
skills/create-marketing-kit/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
create-skill

Create or update a complete repository skill from a user's idea, including the workflow instructions, references, scripts or assets, agent metadata, skill-card artwork, cinematic banner artwork, README links, discovery metadata, and validation. Use when the user asks to create a new skill, add a skill to this collection, turn a workflow into a reusable skill, or make a skill's documentation and a…
skills/create-skill/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
lead-research

Provider-neutral deep-research orchestration for brainstorming, technology choices, comparisons, and state-of-the-art surveys. The Research Lead makes scope and decision calls while native subagents scout, search, verify, synthesize, audit, write, and commit every research artifact.
skills/lead-research/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
lead

Use when the user asks to run or continue an autonomous build: turn a goal into an approved plan, dispatch implementation and review agents, and finish with one pull request. The Lead is a provider-neutral orchestrator that makes decisions but never writes code, edits files, runs commands, or reviews its own work.
skills/lead/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
make-playbook

Indie maker playbook for bootstrapped apps inspired by Pieter Levels' MAKE: The Indie Maker Blueprint. Use when a user is starting or sizing an app idea, choosing what to build next, building a minimal product, preparing a launch, diagnosing stalled growth, deciding pricing or monetization, automating operations, maintaining a per-app MAKE.md tracker, or evaluating whether to sell a product.
skills/make-playbook/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
map-the-landscape

Map the big picture around a topic or software repository by identifying its boundaries, layers, actors, components, relationships, flows, history, fault lines, and open questions, then explain how the pieces fit together and where to look next. Use when a user asks to understand a whole field, domain, technology, ecosystem, industry, codebase, architecture, unfamiliar repo, or phrases such as "g…
skills/map-the-landscape/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
name-your-business

Generate, refine, compare, and when needed validate distinctive names for startups, AI products, developer tools, protocols, open-source projects, apps, product families, local businesses, services, companies, nonprofits, and other organizations. Use when asked to name or rename a business, brand, product, venture, shop, studio, or organization; derive a name from an existing project or concept;…
skills/name-your-business/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
orwell-writing

Use when an agent is asked to draft, rewrite, edit, review, polish, copyedit, simplify, humanize, or create written prose, including creative writing, essays, posts, scripts, speeches, emails, documentation, product copy, and other style-sensitive text. Apply George Orwell's six rules and ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English as a plain-English discipline while preserving the user's intended me…
skills/orwell-writing/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
paper-opportunity-radar

Run a cumulative daily or retrospective sweep of research papers on a chosen topic, audit their claims, methods, integrity signals, and independent support, then identify overlooked but feasible project or business opportunities in a detailed source-grounded report. Use when asked to monitor papers every day, mine buried research, evaluate whether a paper is credible or reproducible, find unimple…
skills/paper-opportunity-radar/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
repo-system-map

Analyze a software repository at the latest remote main commit and turn its implemented architecture into a citation-backed interactive isometric system map with a legend, selectable infrastructure buildings, dependency and payload flows, and plain-language learner explanations. For eligible public GitHub repositories, also contribute the verified map to tamdogood/CodeTerrain with a pull request.…
skills/repo-system-map/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
run-smoke-tests

Inspect an unfamiliar repository, interpret a broad Markdown user journey at runtime, operate the real product through its supported web, API, CLI, desktop, or mobile surface, and produce an auditable pass, fail, or blocked judgment with screenshots, logs, recordings, and a step timeline when available. Use when asked to run smoke tests, validate an end-to-end user journey, dogfood a product, tes…
skills/run-smoke-tests/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
session-profiler

Profile and debug Hermes sessions from their JSONL transcripts. Find a session and its subagents, build a queryable event table, summarize the work as a hierarchical table of contents, break down wall time, inference, tools, tokens, and estimated cost per agent, identify errors and improvement opportunities, and export a shareable Perfetto trace. Use when a user wants to inspect what a Hermes ses…
skills/session-profiler/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
top-one-percent

Teach any topic deeply from first principles and build evidence-based paths toward exceptional capability. Use when a user asks to understand, explain, learn, or deep-dive into a topic; asks why or how something works, why it matters, how alternatives compare, or what different perspectives reveal; requests current paradigms, a complete roadmap or curriculum, deliberate practice and feedback, or…
skills/top-one-percent/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
validate-market

Run an honest market-fit and viability audit of any project or idea and produce a decision doc, not code. Use when someone asks "is this viable as a business", "audit the market fit", "make the case and compare to competitors", "should I apply to YC or bootstrap", or wants to validate a project, product, or market before investing more time. Gathers verifiable traction data first, researches the…
skills/validate-market/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
write-blog

Write and ship a blog post for your project that reads like a human wrote it and pulls SEO traffic to your site. Use when a contributor wants to draft, edit, or publish a blog post, add a post to the site, write about the project for search/traction, or make an existing draft sound less like AI. Enforces the house voice (no em dashes), picks a non-cannibalizing angle, uses ASD-STE100 Simplified T…
skills/write-blog/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Review before you install

A skill is a set of instructions and scripts your agent will follow, and it can run code on your machine. Read the SKILL.md and any scripts first — this listing is not a security review.

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