agent-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

agent-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from helderberto/agent-skills. It costs 2,087 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A personal software-development toolkit for AI coding agents, with Markdown skills for the full process from planning to release. It supports several agents through shared skill files and includes optional subagent definitions and setup guides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or maintain skills, guide work in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Cursor, or Copilot, and support tasks across the software lifecycle.
Why use it?
It gives different coding assistants one consistent source of development guidance instead of separate copies for each tool.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: Claude Code plugin machinery, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is helderberto/agent-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on agent-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agent-skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to helderberto/agent-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helderberto/agent-skills/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/helderberto/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Grade A, and why

agent-skills 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 2d ago.

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 · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guidance for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Copilot, etc.) when working with this repository.

Repository Overview

helderberto/agent-skills is a personal SDLC toolbelt for AI coding agents. Skills are packaged Markdown instructions that extend agent capabilities across the full lifecycle — from spec to ship.

Project Structure

skills/         → Core skills (one folder per skill, each with SKILL.md)
agents/         → Subagent definitions the skills fan out to (Claude Code only)
docs/           → Setup guides per agent (Cursor, Antigravity CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Codex)
.claude-plugin/ → Plugin manifest + marketplace entry (Claude Code)
plugin.json     → Plugin manifest (Antigravity CLI)
.agents/plugins/ → Marketplace entry (Codex)
.plugin/        → Copy of .claude-plugin/plugin.json (Copilot CLI reads it first)

Integration Model

Different agents discover skills through different mechanisms. This repo supports all of them through one source of truth — the skills/ directory.

Agent Discovery mechanism
Claude Code Plugin marketplace (/plugin install hb@helderberto-skills)
Gemini CLI gemini skills install from this repo
OpenCode Auto-routes via this AGENTS.md + the skill tool
Cursor Sync skills/ into .cursor/skills/ (native skills)
Antigravity CLI Native plugin via root plugin.json (agy plugin install)
GitHub Copilot Native plugin from .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (copilot plugin install hb@helderberto-skills)
Codex Native plugin via .agents/plugins/marketplace.json (codex plugin add hb@helderberto-skills)

See docs/ for per-agent setup instructions.

OpenCode Integration

OpenCode uses a skill-driven execution model — the agent reads this file plus the skills/ directory and auto-routes user intent to the right skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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.

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agent-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository helderberto/agent-skills (17 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,087 tokens to every session, about $0.0083 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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