addyosmani releases 25 Agent Skills that spec work before coding
11/03/2026 — 11/03, 04:17·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- The addyosmani/agent-skills repository on GitHub bundles 25 skills that make coding agents write a spec, break the work into tasks and add t…
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On November 3, 2026, DEV Community's AI section published a piece introducing addyosmani/agent-skills on GitHub. The repository ships 25 skills that insert a spec, a plan, and tests between an idea and the resulting diff, so a coding agent produces requirements and tests before it starts writing code. The suite is designed to work with Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, and installs through a single npx command. The author also lays out the full path from a vague feature idea to a tested change. The article argues that coding agents are fast at writing code and equally fast at writing the wrong code: left alone, they jump straight to code, skip the spec, and hand back a large change that is hard to verify. The skills are meant to correct that behavior, and the author presents them as the short route from an underspecified feature request to a verified modification.
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A GitHub project called addyosmani/agent-skills bundles 25 skills that force coding agents to write a spec, break work into small tasks and add tests before touching code. It installs into Claude Code, Cursor and Codex with a single npx command, and the write-up walks through the path from a vague feature idea to a tested change.
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