# thoughtbot's agent skills

> Source: <https://feed.thoughtbot.com/link/24077/17468027/thoughtbot-s-agent-skills>
> Published: 2026-09-21 00:00:00+00:00

[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.

It’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.

I’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.

I 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.

So let us know if you find any of these skills useful, and put up a pull request if you’ve got improvements!
