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karpathy-guidelines

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nassimna/karpathy-guidelines

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Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring code to avoid overcomplication, make surgical changes, surface assumptions, and define verifiable success criteria.

not rated 3 +1 3mo ago A 571 tokens

development-process

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vepo/contraponto

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Mandatory agentic development process — feature analysis, architecture, tasks, squad development, review.

not rated 3 +1 27d ago A 4,192 tokens GPL-2.0

code-to-flowchart

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AjinkyaDeshmukh1990/code-to-flowchart

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Convert a function, method, or service's control flow — in any programming language — into a Mermaid flowchart diagram. Apply when the user wants to visualize code logic, map a control flow, turn a method into a diagram, or understand a complex/branchy function visually.

not rated 2 27d ago A 56 tokens original MIT

fcop-rules

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joinwell52-AI/FCoP

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A set of rules for coordinating AI agents or roles through files in a project. It defines how work, decisions, and verification should be recorded.

not rated 2 yesterday A 21,113 tokens original MIT

cursor-rules

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zhengbowenai-cmd/caliper

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Statistically test prompt / SKILL.md changes with the caliper CLI. Activate when the user asks whether a prompt edit really improved things, asks to compare two prompts, or asks to find conflicts/dead-weight in a long prompt.

not rated 2 2mo ago A 0 tokens original MIT

subagents

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JoakimCarlsson/bastion

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How to use bastion subagents, HANDOFF blocks, and gh CLI in Agent mode.

not rated 2 3mo ago A 661 tokens original MIT

squirrel-mode

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thgMatajs/squirrel-mode

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ADHD-friendly response rules for squirrel-mode - answer first, zero fluff.

not rated 2 18d ago D 2,278 tokens original MIT

skillpack

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nordicnode/skillpack

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Generate and verify the agent-distribution layer for any OSS project.

not rated 2 9d ago A 0 tokens original MIT

fcop-rules

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joinwell52-AI/CodeFlowMu-open

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A set of rules for coordinating coding agents in an FCoP project, where FCoP is a protocol for making agent collaboration visible and checkable. The rules cover file-based communication, separation of decisions from execution, and truthful records.

not rated 2 12d ago A 21,132 tokens copy · 97% MIT

agent

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kleosr/kleosrules

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Autonomous loop capsule — proportional ground, five-hook harness.

not rated 2 changed yesterday A 759 tokens original MIT

usecase-flows

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vypdev/copilot

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Schematic overview of all use case flows (commonaction → use case → steps).

not rated 2 yesterday A 17 tokens original MIT

cursorrules

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danfmaia/agent-teams

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Agency Swarm is a framework that allows anyone to create a collaborative swarm of agents (Agencies), each with distinct roles and capabilities. Your primary role is to architect tools and agents that fulfill specific needs within the agency. This involves.

not rated 2 1y ago A 3,600 tokens

project-structure

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samqin123/Claude_skill_pool

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A set of project rules for creating reusable Claude configuration packages. Each package contains commands, skills, and optionally agents or local settings, and can be copied into another project as its `.claude` setup.

not rated 2 6mo ago A 374 tokens original Apache-2.0

accionlabs/breezeai-claude-plugin

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Shared rules for Breeze functional graph node creation and validation. Enforces persona resolution, outcome naming, action persona-awareness, and node validation when using CallCreateFunctionalNode or CallUpdateFunctionalNode.

not rated 2 9d ago A 663 tokens

agent-master

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Surya8991/AgentMaster

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Meta-orchestrator that classifies tasks and routes to the right combination of installed skills across caveman (output compression), superpowers (dev workflow), anthropic-skills (business/domain expertise), and wired tactical libraries (wshobson, davila7, impeccable, anthropic-official). 26 routing categories…

not rated 2 1mo ago A 133 tokens original MIT

maestro

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AlissonPokry/Maestro

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Maestro routes /maestro tasks to project skill bundles, refreshes bundle keywords with /maestro-fetch, and changes bundle path with /maestro-switch.

not rated 2 4mo ago A 108 tokens original MIT

co-governed-a-sdlc

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dradoaica/cogov-a-sdlc

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Co-governed agentic SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) - canonical instructions for this repo.

not rated 2 1mo ago A 183 tokens original MIT

krishnanpandya007/support-technician-setup

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Use when generating the read-only data-access tools a customer-support agent uses to diagnose an end user's live state — reading a project's backend to propose a tool catalog plus the database access SQL (restricted read-only role, column grants, row-level security), for mandatory human review. Triggers: "discover…

not rated 2 2mo ago A 84 tokens original MIT

squadrant

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tu11aa/squadrant

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Squadrant-projected rules and skills.

not rated 2 yesterday B 2,427 tokens original MIT

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