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    Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.

    cli
    Shell
    MIT
    317.7K stars
    26.6K forks
    1.6K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 8, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #1 among CLI repositories ranked this week, and #1 over the last 30 days; #5 of 189 repositories with measured growth this week (top 3%).

    This week's +9,321 stars is in line with its 30-day pace of about +8,250 per week.

    3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 9 days ago, with 4 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #1 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 26, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • This repository offers a comprehensive collection of agent skills to enhance planning, development, tooling, and writing workflows.
    • Key features include interactive PRD creation, test-driven development, codebase triage, pre-commit setup, and knowledge management with Obsidian integration.
    • Strengths lie in modular, interview-driven skill design and GitHub issue integration; limitation is reliance on Node.js and npx for usage.
    • Organizations can use it to streamline software project planning, automate issue generation, enforce code quality, and improve documentation processes in production.
    • Ideal for software teams seeking structured development workflows, automated planning, code quality enforcement, and knowledge base management.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    A collection of agent skills that extend capabilities across planning, development, and tooling.

    These skills help you think through problems before writing code.

    These skills help you write, refactor, and fix code.

    Excerpt from the mattpocock/skills README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 11: +1,257Aug 12: +1,255Aug 13: +1,295Aug 14: +1,194Aug 15: +847Aug 16: +865Aug 17: +1,041Aug 18: +1,167Aug 19: +2,069Aug 20: +2,433Sep 3: +1,896Sep 4: +2,921Sep 5: +2,283Sep 6: +2,079Sep 7: +950Sep 8: +1,691Sep 9: +915Sep 10: +940Sep 11: +943Sep 12: +726Sep 13: +297Sep 26: +247Oct 2: +876Oct 3: +697Oct 4: +323Oct 7: +1,390Oct 8: +1,519Oct 9: +1,572Oct 10: +1,741Oct 11: +1,816Oct 12: +786Oct 13: +1,297Oct 14: +1,698Oct 15: +1,576Oct 16: +1,587Oct 17: +1,244Oct 18: +1,024Oct 31: +860Nov 1: +910Nov 4: +1,227Nov 5: +1,857Nov 6: +2,049Nov 7: +1,488Nov 8: +866

    +105,319 stars over 90 days across 51 snapshot days; best day +2,921 on Sep 4.

    Forks

    26.6K+8.2K

    Open issues

    219-97

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