{"slug": "thoughtbot-s-agent-skills", "title": "thoughtbot's agent skills", "summary": "Thoughtbot published a consolidated collection of its agent skills in the thoughtbot/skills GitHub repository, making publicly available a set of Claude-compatible skills the consultancy had previously created ad hoc across client projects. The skills, some inspired by thoughtbot's blog posts and style guides, include /dependabot-review for judging which Dependabot pull requests are safe to merge and /test-driven-development for enforcing a red-green-refactor workflow, alongside third-party skills such as Matt Pocock's /wait-what and /grill-me-with-docs and Expo's React Native skills. thoughtbot said it considered keeping the skills private but chose to release them under its open-source culture.", "body_md": "[We just published a bunch of our agent skills!](https://thoughtbot.com/agent-skills) We’ve been creating these ad hoc as we work on projects, but we finally pulled them all together into a single consolidated list. Check out our [thoughtbot/skills](https://github.com/thoughtbot/skills) GitHub repo for details about using them.\n\nIt’s pretty cool to see these skills downloaded from my coworkers’ heads and into a format that Claude can use. Many of them were inspired by classic posts on this blog and by [our style guides](https://github.com/thoughtbot/guides). We briefly considered keeping all these skills private: why share our secret recipes? And honestly some of them feel like a real power-up in the right hands. But we’ve got a culture of open source and it feels right to share them with our dev community.\n\nI’m a big fan of [`/dependabot-review`](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/reviewing-dependabot-prs-is-boring-let-claude-do-it-for-you) which I use to decide which Dependabot PRs are safe to merge. I’ve also been using [`/test-driven-development`](https://github.com/thoughtbot/rails-consultant/blob/main/skills/test-driven-development/SKILL.md) — vibe-coding often results in a bunch of terrible tests and endless mocking, but this red-green-refactor workflow keeps it in check.\n\nI also want to shout out some other skills we’ve been using a lot: [Matt Pocock’s](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) `/wait-what` and `/grill-me-with-docs` along with [Expo’s skills](https://docs.expo.dev/skills/) for React Native.\n\nSo let us know if you find any of these skills useful, and put up a pull request if you’ve got improvements!", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thoughtbot-s-agent-skills", "canonical_source": "https://feed.thoughtbot.com/link/24077/17468027/thoughtbot-s-agent-skills", "published_at": "2026-09-21 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-21 00:23:04.943717+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["thoughtbot", "thoughtbot/skills", "Claude", "GitHub", "Dependabot", "Matt Pocock", "Expo", "React Native"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thoughtbot-s-agent-skills", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thoughtbot-s-agent-skills.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thoughtbot-s-agent-skills.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/thoughtbot-s-agent-skills.jsonld"}}