chips-skills

chips-skill is a very simple tool that helps managing your skills for coding agents. It provides some pre-built skills, but you can also tweak them and add your own. It is mainly designed to be used with Claude, but it should probably work with other agents with minimum adjustments.

Usage

Once installed, you will probably want to get a list of all skills available:

chips-skills list

Select anyone that looks interesting and install it in your project:

chips-skills add <skill_name> 

This will scan your current project and install the selected skills in the proper folder (e.g., .claude/skills or .codex/skills).

The skills live in a global user repository under ~/.local/share/skills/<category>/<skill>. This tool pre-populates this folder with some skills, but you can also add your own. For those who like CLI's, chips-skills provides a command for that, chips-skills new <category/skill>, but you can also just fire your prefered text editor at that folder and create them manually.

Installation

My preferred way is to use uv:

uv tool install chips-skills

(but of course you can adapt it to use pip, poetry, etc).

Contributing

This is a young project, and contributions to the CLI tool are welcome. I am very particular about the pre-shipped skills, though: I want to test them, and I want them to reflect my coding standards, philosophy, and taste.

References

I collected some skills from other sources. Some skills are included verbatim and others with small modifications.