Brooklyn's skills

Portable SKILL.md packages for coding agents. There are no harness-specific commands, hooks, adapters, or setup scripts.

Use

Give your agent this repository:

https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills

Then ask it to install one skill, a few named skills, or all of them in the location its harness expects. For example:

Install the pr-triage and pr-ready skills from this repository.

The agent should copy each requested skills/<name>/ directory as a complete unit so references and bundled resources remain intact.

On Hermes Agent you can skip copying entirely — clone the repo and point at it, so git pull is the update path and every skill shows up as a slash command:

# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
skills:
  external_dirs:
    - ~/path/to/brooklyn-skills/skills

Example prompts

Just name the skill in the sentence. The description in each SKILL.md is what the agent matches against, so /clean, clean, and "clean it up" all land on the same skill. The leading slash is only shorthand — nothing here depends on your agent supporting slash commands.

lets /work on the retry backoff for the upload queue
please /clean your work and then /pr-update
/cpr — same thing in one pass, ends on the PR link
/pr-ready — CI is red and Copilot left three threads
/audit-only: why does the session cache miss on cold start?
/ui-only while we get the settings panel looking right, then /visual-verify
/research whether anyone solves partial-file uploads with resumable PUTs

Chaining them in one message is the normal case: the first skill does the work and the later ones pick up its output. A few pair up so often that defaults.md runs them without being asked — clean before any PR handoff, no-tropes on prose.

Always-on defaults

defaults.md is a small set of baseline behaviors meant to be always loaded, not invoked. It's harness-agnostic: append it to ~/.hermes/SOUL.md (Hermes Agent), your AGENTS.md (Claude Code, Codex, and most other agents), or ~/.cursor/rules/defaults.mdc (Cursor, with alwaysApply: true). The skills handle the deeper workflows it points to.

Contents

• skills/ — portable SKILL.md packages, invoked on demand
• defaults.md — always-on baseline behaviors

No commands, hooks, editor settings, secrets, or machine state are included.

Related workflows

Personal setup notes (git worktree cleanup, scheduled prune, disk tips) live in the BB Workflows gist:

MIT licensed.