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Making AI Coding Agents Actually Good at Software Engineering

A developer has released TechSkills, an open-source library of SKILL.md files that provide AI coding agents with structured workflows, design checklists, and production-grade patterns. The project aims to bridge the gap between code that merely works and code that is production-ready by enabling agents to load relevant skills on demand, with a vision for a community-curated library covering DevOps, system design, and more.

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AI coding agents generate decent code. But decent ≠ production-ready.

They miss the stuff experienced engineers know instinctively — accessibility standards, proper auth flows, database reliability patterns, API design conventions. The gap between "it works" and "it's production-grade" is real.

What if we could give AI agents that missing knowledge as loadable skill modules?

That's what TechSkills does — an open-source library of SKILL.md files containing structured workflows, design checklists, and battle-tested patterns that any AI agent can consume.

Skills use progressive to stay context-efficient:

No context window waste. Agent loads what it needs, when it needs it.

This is Day 1. Two foundational skills. The vision is a community-curated library covering DevOps, system design, data engineering, mobile, and more.

If you've got domain expertise and want to turn it into a skill module others can use — contributions are very welcome.

⭐ [GitHub](https://github.com/debabratasaha-dev/techskills) | 📄 MIT Licensed

What skills would you want your AI agent to have? Drop ideas in the comments 👇

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