thoughtbot's agent skills

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.

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