Guard skills for coding agents, quality gates that catch AI-generated failure modes in code, tests, and docs
guard-skills is a collection of review skills for coding agents that inspect code, tests, and documentation for common AI-generated problems. Developers run the relevant guard after an agent changes a project, before presenting, committing, or merging the work. The catalogue entries are individual guard skills from this collection.
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Review generated or changed production code before it ships, using Clean Code, SOLID, DRY, KISS, YAGNI, and LLM-specific failure-mode checks in any programming language. Best used reactively after an agent writes, edits, refactors, or fixes code, before presenting, committing, or merging the result. Use when the user…
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Review generated or changed documentation before it ships — READMEs, API references, docstrings, PHPDoc/JSDoc, changelogs, tutorials, and doc sites. Best used reactively after an agent writes or edits docs, after code changes documented behavior, or before publishing docs. Use when the user says 'review the docs', 'is…
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Review generated or changed test code against universal testing rules before it ships. Best used reactively after an agent writes, edits, generates, or refactors tests, before presenting, committing, or merging them. Use for pytest (test.py, test.py), PHPUnit/Pest (Test.php), Jest/Vitest (.test.ts, .spec.js), Go…
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Review generated or changed WooCommerce code — extensions, payment and shipping integrations, checkout customizations, and order/product logic — before it ships. Best used reactively after an agent writes, edits, or reviews code touching WooCommerce APIs: wcgetorder, wcgetorders, wcgetproduct, WC() cart or session…
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Review generated or changed WordPress code — plugins, themes, and blocks — before it ships. Best used reactively after an agent writes, edits, or reviews code touching WordPress APIs: addaction/addfilter, shortcodes, meta boxes, AJAX handlers, REST routes, WPQuery or $wpdb, widgets, or WP-CLI commands. Use on 'review…
At most 3 mods per repository are shown here, and a mod shipped inside a plugin is left to that plugin's page — the rest are on their repository pages: