agent-skills

Reusable skill library for AI coding delegates (session Claude, kimi, agy, vibe, codex) working on the CloudHost/iWP.es projects. Goal: capture process knowledge once, so a delegate brief can reference a skill instead of re-explaining the same process from scratch every time.

Format

Each skill is a directory under skills/ containing a SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter (name, description, optional license/source) followed by the actual instructions in markdown. This is the same format Claude Code's native Skill tool consumes directly, and matches the convention used by other cross-platform skill projects (see Provenance below) -- Gemini CLI's activate_skill tool and some Codex plugin setups can potentially consume the same format natively, though that hasn't been separately verified for this repo yet.

For delegates that don't natively discover skills (kimi, vibe, and any codex/agy invocation not specifically configured for plugin discovery): read the relevant SKILL.md yourself before writing the delegate's brief, and fold its content into the prompt directly rather than assuming the delegate can fetch it itself.

Skills in this repo

• wordpress-plugin-rebrand -- forking/rebranding an existing WP plugin under a new brand prefix.
• wordpress-plugin-conventions -- baseline WP plugin coding standards.
• wordpress-cli-remote-execution -- running wp-cli against a site inside a remote jail/container.
• gitea-release-workflow -- tagging releases on self-hosted Gitea, including a real release-asset-unreachable gotcha and its workaround.
• bastille-jail-provisioning -- FreeBSD jail creation via clone-from-base, including a real recurring IP-conflict gotcha.
• remote-shell-quoting-safety -- the base64-push pattern for landing $/quote-heavy content through nested shell layers without corruption.
• server-fleet-map -- which host is for what (dev/corporate/affiliate/ customers) and how to decide where new work belongs.
• delegate-brief-writing -- what a self-contained brief for a memoryless CLI delegate needs to contain.
• verification-before-completion -- never relay a delegate's self-report as fact; how to actually re-verify.
• karpathy-guidelines -- general LLM-coding behavioral guidelines (simplicity, surgical changes, surfacing assumptions).
• web-design-best-practices -- modern UI/UX conventions to apply by default (typography, spacing, color/contrast, motion, forms).
• web-accessibility -- WCAG-aligned baseline (semantic HTML, keyboard nav, contrast, ARIA usage, forms).
• security-headers-and-tls -- HTTP security headers and TLS/SSL configuration strength, including reverse-proxy-layer gotchas.
• code-sanitization -- framework-agnostic injection-prevention baseline (SQLi, XSS, command injection, path traversal, uploads, deserialization).
• parallel-delegate-shared-files -- never have 2+ parallel delegates edit the same bootstrap/wiring file; use self-registration instead. Real incident from the iWP Cache build (lost updates, twice).
• wordpress-plugin-staging-verification -- use the persistent staging1 jail (real-world plugin set left active) for verifying new plugins, not a disposable clean-room jail; includes the full cache-plugin verification checklist and cosmetic-vs-real error gotchas.
• jail-dedicated-subnet-migration -- move jails from shared-IP-on-LAN aliasing to a dedicated private VNET subnet, eliminating ARP collisions with other physical LAN devices. Full bridge/NAT/pf setup, VNET jail creation syntax, and a content-preserving migration procedure (DB grant re-scoping, hairpin-NAT non-issue, cache-HIT-hides-DB-failures gotcha).
• linus-torvalds-code-review -- emulates Linus Torvalds' code-review method (triggers, precedence hierarchy, voice/tone), distilled from 38,293 real review moves across two decades of Linux kernel mailing list emails. This is the clean variant (no profanity). The upstream project also ships a "soul" persona variant that replicates Torvalds' actual (profane) tone -- deliberately not installed here; see Mte90/linus-torvalds-skill directly if that's ever wanted instead.
• code-review -- two-axis review (Standards + Spec) of a diff against a fixed point, run as parallel sub-agents so neither axis masks the other.
• codebase-design -- shared vocabulary for designing deep modules (interface, seam, depth, adapter, leverage, locality) and applying the deletion test.
• diagnosing-bugs -- disciplined loop for hard bugs and regressions: build a tight feedback loop, reproduce, minimise, hypothesise, instrument, fix, then post-mortem.
• full-output-enforcement -- override default LLM truncation; ban placeholder comments and partial outputs, and handle long outputs cleanly.
• handoff -- compact the current conversation into a portable document so another agent can continue the work.
• redesign-existing-projects -- audit an existing UI for generic AI patterns, then upgrade it piece by piece without rewriting the stack.
• research -- delegate reading legwork to a background agent against primary sources, and capture cited findings as a Markdown file.
• resolving-merge-conflicts -- resolve an in-progress git merge or rebase conflict by tracing each side's intent; never --abort.
• tdd -- red-green-refactor test-driven development, one vertical slice at a time, at pre-agreed seams.

Provenance

Some skills here are original (derived directly from real incidents on this project); some are adapted from external open-source skill libraries under their original license, with attribution kept in each skill's frontmatter:

• obra/superpowers (MIT)
• SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude (MIT)
• andrej-karpathy-skills (MIT)
• Mte90/linus-torvalds-skill (CC0-1.0)
• mattpocock/skills (MIT)
• Leonxlnx/taste-skill (MIT)

Vetting external skills

Before installing a skill from an external repo, run NVIDIA SkillSpector against it with --no-llm (static analysis is enough for text-only skills) and review the report. A score of SAFE with no plausible issues is the default bar; if it reports CAUTION, inspect each finding manually -- most are false positives for skill content, but treat any that touch executable scripts, credential handling, or hidden instruction leakage seriously. Re-run the scanner on the adapted SKILL.md after trimming upstream-only files (templates, plugin metadata, sibling docs) so the result reflects what will actually live in this repo.

Adding a new skill

When a real, non-obvious pattern or gotcha comes up more than once, write it down here rather than re-discovering it next time. Keep each skill focused on one concern, include the why (not just the what) so future edge cases can be judged sensibly, and prefer concrete confirmed incidents over generic advice.