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49,492 skills from 2,391 repositories · updated 18 hours ago
49,490 skills
- onboarding-and-offboardingcbrock84/headcountDesigns the joining and leaving experience — first-day readiness, ramp to productivity, knowledge capture, and clean exits. Use this to design or fix onboarding, shorten time to productivity, structure a leaver process, capture knowledge before someone leaves, or coordinate the access and asset steps around a joiner or leaver.DesignNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- skill-authoringcbrock84/headcountWrites and revises agent skills so they trigger at the right moments and give usable instruction when they do. Use this when creating a new skill, editing an existing one, diagnosing a skill that fires too often or never fires, or reviewing a set of skills for overlap. Also use before adding to a skill library, to check the capability is not already covered.WritingNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- solution-architecturecbrock84/headcountDesigns system structure and makes architectural decisions defensible — boundaries, coupling, trade-offs, and recording why. Use this to design a new system or major component, choose between architectural options, review an existing design, decide where a boundary belongs, or document an architectural decision so it survives the people who made it.PlanningNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- budgeting-and-forecastingcbrock84/headcountRuns the planning cycle — annual budget, rolling forecast, consolidation of business unit inputs, and the variance analysis that explains actuals against plan. Use this to build or challenge a budget, run a forecast cycle, consolidate departmental submissions, explain why results diverged from plan, or improve forecast accuracy.PlanningNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- backup-and-recoverycbrock84/headcountProtects and restores data — backup coverage and scope, retention, immutability against ransomware, and proving restores actually work. Use this to design a backup regime, verify restores, plan retention, protect backups from ransomware, or recover from data loss.DesignNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- intellectual-propertycbrock84/headcountCovers what the organization owns and what it is only borrowing — trademarks and clearance, copyright and work-for-hire, patents and trade secrets, open-source license obligations and copyleft reach, and IP terms in customer, contractor and AI-tool agreements. Use this to check whether a name is usable, establish that you own work you paid for, decide how to handle a license obligation in a dependency, or respond to an infringement claim.OtherNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- cloud-infrastructurecbrock84/headcountDesigns and runs cloud infrastructure — environments, infrastructure as code, networking and isolation, scaling, and cost. Use this to design a cloud environment, control infrastructure spend, set up environment separation, plan for scale or region failure, or review infrastructure someone configured by hand.DevOpsNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- compensation-and-levelingcbrock84/headcountBuilds and maintains the leveling framework and pay structure — level definitions, salary bands, benchmarking, pay equity, and how raises and promotions are decided. Use this to design or revise leveling, set or adjust salary bands, benchmark against market, handle a compensation request or counteroffer, run a review cycle, or diagnose pay compression and equity issues.DesignNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- systematic-debuggingcbrock84/headcountFinds the root cause of a bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior before proposing any fix. Use this whenever something is broken and the cause is not yet proven — a failing test, a production error, intermittent behavior, or a symptom that appeared after a change. Also use when a fix has been attempted and did not work, or when the same bug keeps coming back.EngineeringNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- solution-explorationcbrock84/headcountExplores the problem and the range of possible approaches before any code is written — clarifying what is actually being asked, surfacing options with their tradeoffs, and converging on one. Use this at the start of any feature, component, or behavior change, when a request is ambiguous, when the first idea is the only idea on the table, or when a design decision needs pressure-testing before commitment.TestingNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- chief-executivecbrock84/headcountSets direction, allocates capital and attention, and makes the calls no one else can make. Use this when a decision spans more than one function, when priorities conflict and something must be cut, when a plan needs pressure-testing before commitment, or when the question is what the organization should do rather than how to do it. Also use to route a request to the right executive when it is unclear who owns it.TestingNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- benefits-and-leavecbrock84/headcountDesigns and runs employee benefits and leave — health and retirement plans, leave policy, cost and renewal, and the administration that keeps them compliant. Use this to design or review a benefits package, prepare for a renewal, write leave policy, handle a leave request, or decide what benefits are worth their cost.DesignNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- threat-modelingcbrock84/headcountIdentifies what could go wrong in a system before it is built or changed — the assets worth attacking, the entry points, the trust boundaries, and the controls that actually address the realistic threats. Use this when designing a feature or system, when a change touches authentication, data handling, payments, or external input, before a security review, or when deciding which security work is worth doing at all.SecurityNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- benefits-realizationcbrock84/headcountEnsures projects deliver the value they were approved on — defining measurable benefits, baselining, tracking after delivery, and honest post-implementation review. Use this to define benefits for a business case, set a baseline, track whether value actually landed, or run a post-implementation review that produces something useful.EngineeringNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- product-launchcbrock84/headcountTakes something built and gets it into the market — tiering the launch to match what it actually warrants, sequencing internal readiness before external announcement, preparing sales and support to answer the questions it creates, choosing the date for a reason, and measuring adoption rather than announcement reach. Use this to plan a launch, right-size one that is consuming more than it deserves, work out why a released feature nobody uses was launched loudly, or run the weeks after launch day.PlanningNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- deal-negotiationcbrock84/headcountNegotiates a commercial deal without giving away the terms that matter — preparing your walk-away and theirs, trading concessions rather than conceding them, recognizing the tactics that create false urgency, protecting price by moving other variables, and closing on terms someone can actually deliver. Use this to prepare for a negotiation, respond to a demand mid-deal, work out why discounts keep landing at quarter end, or review terms before they are signed.FinanceNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- unit-economicscbrock84/headcountEstablishes whether the business makes money on each customer or unit — contribution margin, acquisition cost, payback period, lifetime value, and the cohort behavior underneath. Use this to assess whether growth is profitable, evaluate a channel or segment, support a pricing decision, judge how fast the business can afford to grow, or diagnose why revenue growth is not producing profit.MarketingNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- cost-accountingcbrock84/headcountEstablishes what something actually costs — fixed, variable and mixed cost behavior, absorption versus variable costing, job-order, process and activity-based methods, breakeven and operating leverage, and price/volume/mix decomposition. Use this to set a price floor, explain why revenue or margin moved, decide make versus buy, judge whether a product line earns its place, or work out how an allocation basis is distorting a reported margin.FinanceNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- program-managementcbrock84/headcountPlans and drives cross-functional programs to delivery — scope, sequencing, dependencies, status, risk, and the escalations that keep work moving. Use this to run a multi-team initiative, recover a program that is slipping, build a delivery plan with dependencies, structure status reporting, or diagnose why cross-team work keeps missing dates.PlanningNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- change-and-adoptioncbrock84/headcountGets people to actually use what was delivered — stakeholder analysis, communication, training, resistance, and measuring adoption. Use this to plan a rollout, recover an implementation nobody is using, handle resistance to a change, sequence communications, or work out why a technically successful project changed nothing.PlanningNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- brand-identitycbrock84/headcountDefines and applies visual brand — logo usage, palette, typography, imagery direction, and the guidelines that keep expression consistent across product and marketing surfaces. Use this to establish a brand from scratch, audit whether an existing brand is being applied consistently, build brand guidelines, or decide how a brand should express itself in an unfamiliar format.DesignNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- project-deliverycbrock84/headcountPlans and delivers a single project — scope, estimation, scheduling, critical path, tracking, and recovering when it slips. Use this to plan a project, build or challenge a schedule, estimate credibly, track progress meaningfully, or recover a project that is late.PlanningNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- brand-voicecbrock84/headcountCaptures how a person or brand actually writes and turns it into reusable voice instructions every other content skill draws from. Use this before drafting any content for a new brand or client, when output keeps coming back sounding generic, when several writers need to sound like one, or when a voice needs defining without existing samples to learn from.WritingNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
- activationcbrock84/headcountGets new users from signup to first real value — signup flow, onboarding, time-to-value, and the early experience that determines whether someone becomes a user or a lapsed account. Use this to design or fix signup and onboarding, diagnose why signups do not convert to active use, reduce time-to-value, or decide what a new user must accomplish first.DesignNo warnings★ 2.6K↓ —
agents-best-practices
DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices
DevOpsUpdated Oct 19, 2026
From the author
Use this skill when designing, generating an MVP blueprint for, auditing, troubleshooting, refactoring, or explaining an agentic harness for any domain. Covers provider-neutral agent architecture for OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI-compatible APIs: agent loops, tool design, record provenance, interactive presentation, user-memory lifecycles, environment-adaptive tools, speculative tool execution, late-bound capabilities, permissions, system prompts, planning, goals, always-on agents and durable runtime, adaptive agent teams, context compaction, memory, skills, MCP/external connectors, public-board communications, realtime voice agents, hardware agents and board deployment, self-refining recursive harnesses, programmable context, continual refinement, observability, evals, prompt caching, agent-legible environments, feedback loops, and safety.
Install
npx skills add DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices --skill agents-best-practices -a claude-code
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