the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer
33 agent markdown files indexed from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer. Install any of them pinned to an exact hash with mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/<name>.
artifact-gates skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · artifact-gates/SKILL.md · Make workflow steps enforceable by giving each one a file it must produce. Use when an agent skips steps in a long…
git:20260727.1573a13 · audit A · 4 stars
choose-boring-technology skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · choose-boring-technology/SKILL.md · Apply the "Choose Boring Technology" principle when evaluating tech stack decisions, adding new tools or frameworks…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
ci-preflight skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · ci-preflight/SKILL.md · Run before pushing any branch that adds shipped files, hooks, or platform-specific code. Prevents the CI-whiplash…
git:20260616.c73a2fd · audit A · 4 stars
conways-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · conways-law/SKILL.md · Apply Conway's Law when discussing system architecture, team structure, org design, microservices, API ownership, or…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
cost-routing skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · cost-routing/SKILL.md · Top-level dispatcher that classifies every incoming request into scout / coder / architect tiers BEFORE any tool call…
git:20260518.e462a2a · audit A · 4 stars
cost-tier-routing skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · cost-tier-routing/SKILL.md · Use BEFORE doing direct file search, bulk reads, data import/export, or routine coding edits in the main conversation…
git:20260515.59be2fb · audit A · 4 stars
cunninghams-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · cunninghams-law/SKILL.md · Apply Cunningham's Law when someone wants to elicit information, feedback, or corrections from others—especially…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
doerrs-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · doerrs-law/SKILL.md · Apply Doerr's Law when discussing product team culture, motivation, team engagement, hiring philosophy, outsourcing…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
fitts-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · fitts-law/SKILL.md · Apply Fitts's Law whenever someone is designing or critiquing a user interface—button placement, click targets, menu…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
galls-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · galls-law/SKILL.md · Apply Gall's Law when someone proposes building a complex system from scratch, planning a big-bang rewrite, designing a…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
goodharts-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · goodharts-law/SKILL.md · Apply Goodhart's Law when designing metrics, OKRs, KPIs, performance reviews, engineering productivity measures, or any…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
greenspuns-tenth-rule skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · greenspuns-tenth-rule/SKILL.md · Apply Greenspun's Tenth Rule when reviewing complex codebases that have grown their own configuration systems, rule…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
gsd-core-hooks skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · gsd-core-hooks/SKILL.md · A full PreToolUse/PostToolUse hook suite that machine-enforces a project's workflow rules instead of leaving them as…
git:20260913.2095d70 · audit A · 4 stars
hofstadters-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · hofstadters-law/SKILL.md · Apply Hofstadter's Law when estimating project timelines, discussing why software projects are always late, helping…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
hyrums-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · hyrums-law/SKILL.md · Apply Hyrum's Law when discussing API design, backward compatibility, deprecation, versioning, or any situation where a…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
kerckhoffs-principle skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · kerckhoffs-principle/SKILL.md · Apply Kerckhoffs's Principle when reviewing security designs, authentication systems, encryption implementations, or…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
kernighans-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · kernighans-law/SKILL.md · Apply Kernighan's Law when reviewing code, discussing code complexity, advising on coding style, or coaching developers…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
knuths-optimization-principle skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · knuths-optimization-principle/SKILL.md · Apply Knuth's Optimization Principle when someone wants to optimize code before establishing it's a bottleneck, is…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
lady-lovelaces-objection skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · lady-lovelaces-objection/SKILL.md · Apply Lady Lovelace's Objection when discussing the creative or intellectual limits of software and AI, questions about…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
leaky-abstractions skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · leaky-abstractions/SKILL.md · Apply the Law of Leaky Abstractions when someone is frustrated that a library, framework, or ORM isn't hiding…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
linuss-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · linuss-law/SKILL.md · Apply Linus's Law when discussing code review practices, open source contributions, bug finding strategies, security…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
moores-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · moores-law/SKILL.md · Apply Moore's Law when discussing hardware capacity planning, compute cost trends, the feasibility of computationally…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
norvigs-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · norvigs-law/SKILL.md · Apply Norvig's Law when evaluating growth claims about technology adoption, market size projections, "exponential…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
parkinsons-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · parkinsons-law/SKILL.md · Apply Parkinson's Law when discussing project planning, sprint duration, deadline setting, scope creep, or why work…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
peter-principle skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · peter-principle/SKILL.md · Apply the Peter Principle when discussing promotions, career ladders, hiring for leadership roles, why managers…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
postels-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · postels-law/SKILL.md · Apply Postel's Law when designing APIs, data interchange formats, network protocols, input validation, or any interface…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
rubber-duck skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · rubber-duck/SKILL.md · Rubber duck debugging session. Use when the user is stuck on a bug and can't find the cause, says "I don't understand…
git:20260415.109c051 · audit A · 4 stars
shirky-principle skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · shirky-principle/SKILL.md · Apply the Shirky Principle when analyzing why legacy systems persist, why incumbents resist disruptive solutions, why…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
skills-from-the-artificer skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · skills-from-the-artificer/SKILL.md · Dispatcher for the Artificer laws-of-software collection. Given a proposed change, fix, diff, design, or decision…
git:20260601.a8fd0a0 · audit A · 4 stars
test-first-bugfix skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · test-first-bugfix/SKILL.md · Test-driven bug fixing — reproduce before you fix. Use this skill whenever the user reports a bug, describes unexpected…
git:20260415.109c051 · audit A · 4 stars
trust-but-verify skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · trust-but-verify/SKILL.md · Use when you receive findings, a report, or any factual claims back from a subagent/Task before you act on them —…
git:20260530.d36a671 · audit A · 4 stars
wirths-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · wirths-law/SKILL.md · Apply Wirth's Law when discussing software performance, application bloat, why software feels slower despite hardware…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
zawinskis-law skill
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · zawinskis-law/SKILL.md · Apply Zawinski's Law when discussing feature creep, scope expansion, the tendency for software to grow beyond its…
git:20260530.3e17152 · audit A · 4 stars
Source
github.com/the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-20