Library Skills

Skillfold ships with 11 generic, reusable skills that work with any coding agent. Each skill is a standalone SKILL.md file - you can use them with skillfold pipelines, install them individually via the skills CLI, or read them directly.

Install with the skills CLI

Install all 11 skills at once:

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold

Or install individual skills:

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s <skill-name>

No skillfold config or compilation needed. Each skill installs as a standard SKILL.md file that any agent can read.

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Available Skills

planning

Break problems into steps, identify dependencies, and estimate scope.

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s planning

research

Gather information, evaluate sources, and synthesize findings.

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s research

decision-making

Evaluate trade-offs, document options, and justify recommendations.

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s decision-making

code-writing

Write clean, correct, production-quality code.

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s code-writing

code-review

Review code for correctness, clarity, and security.

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s code-review

testing

Write and reason about tests, covering behavior, edge cases, and errors.

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s testing

writing

Produce clear, structured prose and documentation.

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s writing

summarization

Condense information with audience-appropriate detail levels.

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s summarization

github-workflow

Work with GitHub branches, PRs, issues, and reviews via the gh CLI.

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s github-workflow

file-management

Read, create, edit, and organize files and directories.

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s file-management

skillfold-cli

Use the skillfold compiler to manage multi-agent pipeline configs.

npx skills add byronxlg/skillfold -s skillfold-cli

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Using with skillfold pipelines

If you use the skillfold compiler, import all library skills at once instead of installing them individually:

imports:
  - npm:skillfold/library/skillfold.yaml

This makes all 11 skills available as atomic skills in your pipeline config. Compose them into agents:

skills:
  composed:
    engineer:
      compose: [planning, code-writing, testing]
      description: "Implements the plan by writing production code and tests."
    reviewer:
      compose: [code-review, testing]
      description: "Reviews code for correctness, clarity, and test coverage."

See the Examples page for complete pipeline configs using library skills.

Browsing on skills.sh

All 11 skills are indexed on skills.sh and discoverable via the skills CLI leaderboard. Search for them with:

npx skills search skillfold