⚡ SlashStack Free Skills

Eleven open-source workflows that make AI coding agents inspect before editing, verify before stopping, and remember what matters

⭐ If these skills make your agent safer, a star helps other developers find them. It takes one click and keeps this free layer maintained.

🌐 Website • 📦 npm installer • 🐛 Issues • ⚡ Pro tier

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✨ What is SlashStack?

SlashStack Free Skills is a set of agent skills for AI coding assistants — plain Markdown workflows that tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, and other repo-aware agents read and follow. They give your agent guardrails: it inspects the repo before touching code, verifies with real evidence before claiming done, and preserves durable project context across sessions.

These eleven skills are the MIT-licensed free layer of SlashStack — a repo-local agent operating layer. No runtime, no accounts, no lock-in. Just readable, editable, versionable Markdown.

• ✅ Zero dependencies — plain Markdown, works with any skill-aware agent
• ✅ Local-first — lives in your repo, versioned with your code
• ✅ Battle-tested workflows — planning, preflight, audit, ship, memory
• ✅ Free forever — MIT licensed, commercial use welcome
• ✅ Upgrade path — Pro adds 8 more skills + 6 always-on guards

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🚀 Quick Start

Option A — Recommended installer (adds kernel + memory structure)

# Portable default — skills land in .agents/skills/
npx slashstack@latest install --target agents

# Claude Code — skills land in .claude/skills/
npx slashstack@latest install --target claude

Option B — Copy only the skill files

git clone https://github.com/mverab/slashstack-skills.git
mkdir -p your-project/.agents/skills
cp -R slashstack-skills/skills/* your-project/.agents/skills/

Use them

In your agent session, invoke any skill by name:

/preflight   → before editing code
/audit       → before committing
/ship        → before handoff
/remember    → after a useful session

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🧰 The Eleven Free Skills

Skill	What it does	When to use it
/preflight	Inspects repo state, conventions, and constraints; flags risks with severity	Before editing any code
/vibe	Turns rough intent into a focused, scoped build direction	When the idea is still fuzzy
/audit	Reviews changes for bugs, regressions, missing tests, and release risk	Before committing or opening a PR
/ship	Runs final verification and produces an evidence-backed go/no-go	Before handoff or deploy
/execute	Turns a multi-step task into a scoped goal with acceptance criteria	For work spanning multiple files
/security	Beginner-friendly pre-deploy review: secrets, auth, public routes	Before deploying or sharing
/remember	Saves durable project facts future sessions will need	After a productive session
/recall	Loads saved subsystem context, validated against the current code	Before working in a known area
/improve	Captures reusable workflow patterns from completed work	When you discover a better way
/explain	Translates technical agent output into plain language	When onboarding non-experts
/next	Suggests 2–3 safe next prompts without editing anything	When you don't know what to ask

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🆚 Free vs Pro

This repository intentionally contains only the eleven free skills.

SlashStack Pro — one-time purchase, lifetime updates — adds:

	Free (this repo)	Pro
Workflow skills	11	19
Always-on guards (commit/push/install/env)	—	6
Senior Mode (smallest-surface planning)	—	✅
Git pre-commit + pre-push secret scanning	—	✅
Checkpoint recovery (clean Git snapshots)	—	✅
Offline license validation	—	✅

The Pro layer is not published in this repository. This repo stays 100% MIT — no bait-and-switch.

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome — this is an open project with a private upstream, and community input shapes the free layer.

• Bug reports & skill improvements → open an issue
• Pull requests → see CONTRIBUTING.md
• New skill ideas → propose them in an issue first (the free layer stays deliberately focused)

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full guide.

⭐ Show your support

If SlashStack skills saved you from a bad commit, a hallucinated refactor, or a lost context window:

• Star this repo — it tells other developers this is worth their time
• Share it — slashstack.dev
• Upgrade to Pro — supports continued maintenance of the free layer

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🔌 Compatibility

SlashStack skills are agent-readable Markdown with YAML frontmatter — no runtime dependency. Tested with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Hermes Agent. Any agent that reads AGENTS.md-style contracts and skill files can use them.

📄 License

MIT — free for commercial and personal use, forever. See LICENSE.

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