skillsmith 0.2.0

The premier agentic skills library for professional AI engineering

🧠 skillsmith

Portable agentic skills library for professional AI engineering.

skillsmith is a CLI tool that scaffolds industry-standard .agent structures into any project. It imbues your AI coding assistants with project-agnostic "expertise" across the entire software lifecycle.

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🚀 Quick Start

Initialize a new project with best-practice agent context in seconds:

# Install the library
pip install skillsmith

# Scaffold the .agent structure and AGENTS.md
skillsmith init

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✨ Key Features

• 600+ Skills (Categorized): Massive library organized into 9 broad categories (Security, Data-AI, Infrastructure...).
• Tag-Based Bundles: Install skills by topic tags (e.g., python, react, aws) using simple CLI flags.
• 23 Core Skills: Out-of-the-box expertise for TDD, Security Audits, Context Engineering, and more.
• AGENTS.md Standard: Native support for the agents.md open standard ("README for Agents").
• Agentic Workflows: Pre-defined templates for agentic loops, sub-agent coordination, and memory management.
• Project Structure: Scaffolds dedicated folders for guides/, plans/, and workflows/.
• Portable & Modular: Add only the skills you need for your specific tech stack.

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🛠 Included Skills library

The library contains 626 skills across 9 major categories:

1. Architecture (60 skills)
2. Business (37 skills)
3. Data-AI (92 skills)
4. Development (81 skills)
5. General (128 skills)
6. Infrastructure (78 skills)
7. Security (112 skills)
8. Testing (22 skills)
9. Workflow (16 skills)

Run skillsmith list --list-categories to explore.

Category	Skill	Description
AI Strategy	memory-patterns	Manage agent context window and long-term memory.
	prompt-engineering	Best practices for few-shot and chain-of-thought prompts.
Engineering	test-driven-development	Structured TDD (Red → Green → Refactor) for agents.
Security	security-audit	OWASP-based security checklists for automated reviews.
Fullstack	fastapi-best-practices	Patterns for high-performance Python backends.

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📖 Directory Structure

When you run skillsmith init, it creates:

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├── AGENTS.md           # High-level context for AI agents
└── .agent/
    ├── skills/         # Modular expertise (SKILL.md files)
    ├── guides/         # Project-specific style & architecture docs
    ├── plans/          # Active implementation plans and RFCs
    ├── workflows/      # Automated tasks and deployment templates
    ├── prd.md          # Standard blueprint for new features
    └── status.md       # Global project state tracker

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💻 CLI Commands

Initialize Project

Scaffold the full structure including all 23 skills.

skillsmith init

Minimal Scaffolding

Create the directory structure and templates without the pre-built skills.

skillsmith init --minimal

Install by Category or Tag

Install bundles of skills for specific domains.

# Install all Security skills
skillsmith init --category security

# Install all Python skills
skillsmith init --tag python

List Available Skills

View the library of portable expertise.

skillsmith list

# Filter by category
skillsmith list --category data-ai

# Filter by tag
skillsmith list --tag react

Update Skills

Sync local project skills with the library and latest best practices.

skillsmith update

Validate Skills

Verify skill structure, metadata, and link integrity.

skillsmith lint --local

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🗺️ Future Plans

We are evolving skillsmith into a central hub for agentic expertise. Our upcoming roadmap includes:

• Central Skill Registry: A hosted platform to browse, search, and share community-verified skills.
• Framework Integrations: Native scaffolding for Agno, LangChain, CrewAI, and more.
• TUI Mode: An interactive terminal interface for selecting and managing skills.
• Agent Self-Installation: APIs that allow agents to autonomously search for and install the skills they need to complete a task.

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📜 License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you have a portable skill that could benefit other developers, please open a Pull Request.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingSkill)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'feat: add AmazingSkill')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingSkill)
5. Open a Pull Request

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Developed with ❤️ by ApexIQ