SkillEngine AGENTS.md

Repository instructions that tell AI coding agents how to work in SkillEngine, including its skills, roles, checks, and rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Following the repository’s agent workflows, choosing skills based on the user’s intent, and checking code with its testing, security, performance, accessibility, and reliability rules.
Why use it?
They give agents one shared source of guidance, so their work follows the repository’s expected process instead of relying on guesses.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/borhen68/skillengine/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/borhen68/SkillEngine

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 1,851 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
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Opus 5 $0.00925 $0.00925
Sonnet 5 $0.00370 $0.00370
Haiku 4.5 $0.00185 $0.00185

Measured yesterday against content hash 18b679a70185, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

SkillEngine AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

The single source of truth for how AI agents operate within this repository.

This document is loaded into every session. It defines the rules, the mapping from intent to skill, and the orchestration model that makes agents predictable, reliable, and safe. Read it. Follow it. No exceptions.

Repository Overview

This is not a library. It's not a framework. It's a control system for AI agents.

SkillEngine encodes the workflows, quality gates, and decision-making patterns that separate production engineering from prototyping. When an agent follows these skills, it ships code that passes review, survives incidents, and doesn't wake engineers at 3 AM.

What this repository contains:

  • 28 skills — step-by-step workflows with checkpoints, anti-rationalization tables, and evidence-based verification
  • 5 agent personas — specialist roles (code reviewer, security auditor, test engineer, performance auditor, SRE)
  • 5 reference checklists — quick-reference material for testing, security, performance, accessibility, and reliability
  • Validation pipeline — automated quality gates that enforce skill anatomy and cross-skill consistency

What this repository demands:

  • Skills are mandatory, not optional
  • Verification is non-negotiable
  • "Seems right" is never sufficient
  • Every assumption must be stated

OpenCode Integration

OpenCode uses a skill-driven execution model powered by the skill tool and this repository's /skills directory.

Core Rules

  • If a task matches a skill, you MUST invoke it
  • Skills are located in skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md
  • Never implement directly if a skill applies
  • Always follow the skill instructions exactly (do not partially apply them)

Intent → Skill Mapping

The agent should automatically map user intent to skills:

  • Feature / new functionality → spec-driven-development, then incremental-implementation, test-driven-development
  • Planning / breakdown → planning-and-task-breakdown
  • Bug / failure / unexpected behavior → debugging-and-error-recovery
  • Code review → code-review-and-quality
  • Refactoring / simplification → code-simplification
  • API or interface design → api-and-interface-design
  • UI work → frontend-ui-engineering
  • Data pipelines / ETL → data-engineering
  • ML model deployment → ai-ops
  • Cloud cost concerns → cost-optimization
  • Resilience testing → chaos-engineering

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 210 lines · 1,851 tokens per session scan A 18b679a70185

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SkillEngine AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository borhen68/SkillEngine (17 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,851 tokens to every session, about $0.0093 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.