rsc — 276 agent skills, one CLI, zero bloat

A self-recommending skill catalog for 17 coding assistants — Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini, Windsurf, Cline, Antigravity, Zed and more. Describe what you want in plain language. It reads your repo, installs only the skills that fit — one at a time — into every assistant you pick, and keeps them equipped as you work.

From "document my company" to "ship a FastAPI service" to "grow my YouTube channel" — 281 skills across 23 domains, every one researched against live 2025-2026 sources and adversarially scored ≥ 8.5/10 before it shipped.

npx @ericrisco/rsc            # plain-language wizard — no jargon, installs what your project needs

The model is the only part your agent already has. rsc is the meta-harness that adds the rest: a memory so it stops inventing, arms so it can execute, a trade so it stops guessing, and reflexes so it cannot forget the rule mid-session — into whichever assistant you already use, and kept in sync as you work.

🤖 For agents: "install this harness"

If you're an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Gemini…) and your user asked you to install rsc / this harness / these skills, run this in the root of the project they're equipping — not inside a clone of this repo (see the note under Install):

npx @ericrisco/rsc@latest

That launches a plain-language wizard: it asks which assistants to target and what the user wants, reads the repo, then installs the floor (orient + rsc-suggest + bro + harness + init) plus only the skills that fit — one at a time. No global install and no API key needed.

• Choose assistants non-interactively: npx @ericrisco/rsc@latest --target claude (comma-separate for several).
• Already installed, just refreshing skills + hooks: rsc sync (or re-run the command above).
• Add one skill by id: rsc add <id> · browse the catalog: rsc consult "<what you want>" or rsc list.

From then on it's self-driving: rsc-suggest proposes the next skill as tasks appear, and in Claude Code a hook re-asserts the spec-first new-feature gate on every turn — so a feature request routes through specify before any skill writes code.

Why this exists

Most skill packs dump hundreds of files into your context and call it a day. This one is the opposite bet:

• Granular by default. The unit of installation is one skill. Install fastapi without ever pulling go. Nothing you don't use touches your context.
• Self-recommending. Both the terminal (rsc consult) and the chat (rsc-suggest, an always-on detector) watch what you're doing and propose the next skill the moment a task needs it — a one-word confirm installs it.
• Not code-only. First-class support for running a company: bookkeeping, invoicing, hiring, GDPR, pitch decks, SEO, a YouTube/TikTok/LinkedIn presence — each wired to a 02-DOCS/ knowledge loop that learns from your own results.
• Honestly good. Every skill was built by a research → spec → implement → adversarial review pipeline and had to clear an objective rubric (scripts/skill-rubric.md, written before any skill existed). The bar was real: skills that scored 8.0 were sent back and fixed, not waved through.

skills/<name>/ is the single source of truth. There are no bundles to argue over: you start with a tiny floor and grow one piece at a time.

Install

npx @ericrisco/rsc            # no install step — runs the latest published catalog

Prefer the short rsc command? Install once, globally:

npm install -g @ericrisco/rsc   # then just: rsc

Run it inside any project and describe what you want. Working on the catalog itself? Clone and link:

git clone https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness.git ~/rsc-skills
cd ~/rsc-skills && npm install && npm link

Run it inside the project you're equipping — not inside this repo. The catalog's own package.json is named @ericrisco/rsc, so npx @ericrisco/rsc from within a rsc-harness clone resolves to the local (unlinked) bin and dies with sh: rsc: command not found. Working on the catalog itself? Use node scripts/rsc.js …, the npm link above, or pin the published build with npx @ericrisco/rsc@latest ….

The first run asks which assistants you want — Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Gemini, Windsurf, Cline and 11 more (pick any combination) — and installs the floor: orient + rsc-suggest (always-on) + bro (on request) + harness + init. In Claude Code it also wires a SessionStart hook (so your assistant proposes new skills on its own) and a UserPromptSubmit hook that re-asserts the SDD new-feature gate on every turn — so a feature request, in any language, routes through specify first, before any skill writes code. Opt out per project with .rsc/.no-feature-gate. It also wires a PreToolUse gitmoji guard: a git commit whose message carries no gitmoji is denied, with the corrected message inside the refusal (✨ feat(api): add cursor paging) — so git log --oneline stays readable at a glance instead of depending on the agent remembering a convention. It only judges messages it can actually read (-m, heredoc), never an editor commit or --amend --no-edit. Opt out with .rsc/.no-gitmoji.

Everything stays in the project, and the real skill files are written once to .rsc/skills/<id>/. Each assistant you pick gets a lightweight symlink back to that shared base — no copy is duplicated across IDEs. (If the filesystem can't symlink, it falls back to a real copy automatically.)

30-second tour

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  281 skills · one CLI · zero bloat

What do you want to do?          ↑↓ move · enter select
❯ Base install — the essentials (8 skills)
  Base + Spec-Driven Development — specify → plan → implement → ship
  Pick skills by hand, by area

Pick by area and you get a checkbox list — ↑↓ to move, space to toggle, enter to confirm:

Languages:                       ↑↓ move · space toggle · a all · enter confirm
❯ ◉ typescript
  ◯ python
  ◉ go
  ◯ rust

Then it asks which assistants to install for — tick as many as you like:

Which assistants do you want to install for?   space toggle · a all · enter confirm
❯ ◉ Claude Code      (.claude/skills/)   ⟵ detected here
  ◉ Codex CLI        (AGENTS.md)
  ◯ GitHub Copilot   (.github/copilot-instructions.md)
  ◯ Cursor           (.cursor/rules/)
  ◉ Windsurf         (.windsurf/rules/)
  ◯ Cline            (.clinerules/)
  …17 in total — Gemini, Antigravity, Zed, Continue, Roo, Amp, opencode, Jules, Junie, Kiro, Aider

It detects your stack, asks which assistants to install for (the one it found in your folder is pre-marked), installs only what you chose, then prints the exact next steps for Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Gemini / Antigravity — and from there keeps proposing the skills a task needs.

The CLI

rsc                                  # plain-language wizard (recommended) — pick skills AND assistants
rsc add fastapi postgresdb           # install specific skills, by name
rsc add youtube-api remotion-video   # …grow a channel, edit with Remotion
rsc add fastapi --target claude,codex   # install into several assistants at once
rsc install --profile minimal        # the base: orient + suggest + bro + unslop + show-me + eli5 + harness + init
rsc install --profile core           # floor + the full SDD workflow
rsc install --profile full           # everything (all 281 skills)
rsc install --profile full --without go
rsc consult "I want to launch a SaaS"  # recommend only, no install
rsc registry refresh                 # write .rsc/skill-registry.{json,md}
rsc list                             # what rsc has installed
rsc doctor                           # health check (state, hook, counts)
rsc sync --target claude,codex       # refresh managed skills/hooks from the current package version
rsc backups                          # list project-local snapshots
rsc restore latest --dry-run         # preview restoring the newest snapshot
rsc restore <snapshot-id>            # restore a project-local snapshot
rsc upgrade --dry-run                # show npm upgrade + sync commands
rsc uninstall postgresdb --dry-run   # preview a removal

Update

rsc is an npm package, so updating is two steps — bump the package, then re-sync what's already wired into your project:

npm install -g @ericrisco/rsc@latest   # global install: pull the newest catalog
rsc sync                               # refresh managed skills + hooks (auto-detects your assistant)

Not sure what a bump touches? Preview the exact commands without writing anything:

rsc upgrade --dry-run                  # prints the npm install + rsc sync lines for your target

Running through npx (no global install)? There's nothing to upgrade — npx @ericrisco/rsc@latest always fetches the latest published catalog; just run rsc sync afterwards if the project already has skills installed.

Every sync snapshots the project first, so a bad update is always reversible:

rsc backups                            # list project-local snapshots
rsc restore latest --dry-run           # preview restoring the newest
rsc restore <snapshot-id>              # restore it

How recommendation works

Two faces, one catalog (manifest.json):

• In the terminal — rsc / rsc consult rank the catalog against your words (multilingual TF-IDF blended with exact tag/id weights and intent synonyms), merge that with what they detect in your repo, and expand via each skill's recommends.
• In the chat — rsc-suggest is a tiny always-on skill. When a task would benefit from a skill you don't have, it names it and (one-word confirm) runs rsc add <id> for you. It's the floor — installed with every profile.

Repo detection maps real signals to skills: package.json + next → nextjs; go.mod → go; pyproject.toml → fastapi; *.sql/prisma/ → postgresdb; Dockerfile/.github/ → docker/github-actions; and so on. An empty repo just asks in plain language.

The catalog

281 skills, grouped by what you're trying to do. Click any skill to read its SKILL.md. It fires on its own when a task matches.

🧭 Core & control plane

The front door and the workspace brain.

init · harness · orient · suggest · bro · unslop · author-skill · sdd-init

harness is the Karpathy chaos→knowledge engine — a 01-TOOLS/ layer (one folder per provider, each with a working test_connection) and a 02-DOCS/ self-improving wiki. It governs software or a whole company. orient is the always-on compass that keeps a non-technical human oriented after every step. bro is installed with every profile and rewrites any answer in plain, natural language when the user asks — without making its full body always-on.

📦 The 02-DOCS/ brain is now 100% Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.1) conformant

Google Cloud published the Open Knowledge Format — a vendor-neutral standard for portable, agent-readable knowledge — built on the same Karpathy LLM-wiki pattern our 02-DOCS/ engine has used from day one. We independently converged on the same design, so adopting the standard cost almost nothing. As of now, every 02-DOCS/wiki/ is a valid, portable OKF bundle:

• Markdown + YAML frontmatter, type on every concept doc, OKF-standard fields (title, description, resource, tags, timestamp).
• Standard markdown links (not wikilinks) form the knowledge graph — any OKF consumer reads it, and it stays a native Obsidian vault (graph, backlinks, Properties, Bases). Same files, no export step.
• Reserved files honored: index.md (no frontmatter) for navigation, log.md (newest-first, ISO 8601) for history.

Tarball a wiki/ and any OKF tool — including Google's own viewer — can read it. And the brain now keeps your repo clean: a loose file it ingests (a PDF at the root, anything in inbox/) is moved into raw/, never left as clutter.

📐 Spec-Driven Development

Take a fuzzy intent to a shipped, verified change — phase by phase. npx @ericrisco/rsc install --profile core.

sdd · constitution · idea-refinement · specify · clarify · plan · tasks · analyze · decision-challenge · implement · source-grounded-development · verify · review · simplify-code · ship · debug · worktrees · parallel

💼 Run a business

finance-ops · invoicing · bookkeeping · pricing · sales-pipeline · lead-gen · cold-outreach · proposals · contracts · customer-support · client-onboarding · retention · hiring · people-ops · inventory · logistics-ops · procurement · meeting-notes · sop-builder · project-ops

💸 Raise & model money

pitch-deck · investor-materials · financial-model · fundraising · unit-economics · grants

⚖️ Legal, privacy & compliance

gdpr-privacy · terms-conditions · compliance · data-policy · ip-trademark

📣 Market & brand

marketing · seo-geo · content-engine · social-publisher · brand-voice · brand-identity · newsletter · landing-copy · ads · article-writing · case-studies · video-shorts · podcast · market-research · competitor-watch · press-kit · community · webinar · review-management

🎬 Grow a channel

Each with a 02-DOCS feedback loop that learns from your own results. remotion-video edits programmatically — transitions, Whisper captions, silence removal.

youtube-api · youtube-strategy · youtube-ideation · youtube-thumbnails · youtube-packaging · remotion-video · tiktok-api · instagram-api · shortform-strategy · shortform-ideation · shortform-packaging · shortform-editing · viral-score · linkedin-api · linkedin-strategy · linkedin-content · linkedin-carousels · linkedin-outreach · medium-writing · medium-publishing · medium-strategy

🔌 Connect & automate

stripe · email-connector · google-workspace · notion-connector · whatsapp-telegram · automation-flows · api-connector-builder · webhooks · data-scraper · spreadsheet-ops · calendar-scheduling · document-processing · e-signature

⚙️ Automation

Operate the big automation platforms programmatically or via MCP — create and manage automations dynamically, not just design them on a canvas. automation-strategy decides whether / what / which platform; the platform skills drive the live REST API or MCP server (harness connectors ship for each). Complements automation-flows (visual design + importable workflow JSON).

automation-strategy · n8n · make · zapier · power-automate

📊 Data & analytics

analytics · dashboard · kpi-framework · reporting · ab-testing · forecasting · data-cleaning · business-intelligence

🤖 AI — build it in

building-agents · rag · embeddings-search · prompt-engineering · llm-pipeline · agent-eval · chatbot · ai-media · replicate-images · structured-extraction · agent-safety · cost-tracking

🛰️ AI — run it on

replicate · runpod · modal · huggingface · ollama · together-fireworks · fal

🎓 AI — train it

Train and adapt open models end to end: classic ML, deep learning, NLP, fine-tuning (with Unsloth), building training datasets, choosing open-weight models by license/size, and serving them at throughput with vLLM. Facts that move monthly (versions, model licenses) are verified at author time and hedged.

machine-learning · deep-learning · nlp · finetuning · training-data · unsloth · open-weights · vllm

🗣️ Languages

typescript · python · java · csharp-dotnet · php · ruby · cpp · elixir · bash-scripting · sql · go · write-swift

🏗️ Frameworks & app stacks

fastapi · nextjs · react · react-native · vue-nuxt · angular · svelte · astro · solid-js · htmx · nodejs · nestjs · django · laravel · rails · spring-boot · phoenix · flutter · swift-ios · kotlin-android · compose-multiplatform · expo · tauri · electron · rust · wordpress · shopify · no-code-app · chrome-extension · api-design · pick-ui-library · ask-sonner

🎮 Game development

Three engines + engine-agnostic disciplines. Every engine skill pins the current version and bans deprecated APIs, so the agent stops emitting stale Godot-3 / legacy-Unity code.

godot · unity · unreal · game-design · game-storytelling · level-design · gamedev-shaders · gamedev-multiplayer · gamedev-physics · gamedev-pathing · gamedev-shipping

🗄️ Databases & data layer

postgresdb · mysql · mongodb · redis · supabase · neon · planetscale · sqlite-turso · prisma-orm · drizzle-orm · firebase · dynamodb · vector-db · clickhouse-analytics · duckdb · db-migrations · backups

☁️ Ship & operate — platforms

vercel · netlify · cloudflare · railway · render · fly-io · coolify · hetzner · digitalocean · aws-essentials · gcp-essentials

🛠️ Ship & operate — devops

docker · github-actions · git-workflow · domains-dns · monitoring · email-deliverability · scaling · deployment · deprecation

🔒 Ship & operate — quality & security

code-review · security-scan · secure-coding · testing-py · testing-web · testing-go · e2e-testing · accessibility · performance · error-handling · observability

🌀 Motion & interface craft

design-eng · animate · animate-expo · review-animations · improve-animations · find-animation-opportunities · animation-vocabulary · apple-design · prototype

🎨 Design & content craft

design-loop · design · design-dna · presentations · course-storytelling · course-builder · technical-writing · translation-l10n

🧠 Knowledge & meta

knowledge-ops · codebase-onboarding · research-ops · decision-records · continuous-learning · skill-scout · context-budget · roast-me · show-me · eli5 · fable-operator

Multi-target

skills/<name>/ is the catalog source. On install the real files land once in the project at .rsc/skills/<id>/; each assistant you pick gets a symlink (or a converted file) back to that shared base — pick several and nothing is duplicated. The wizard asks which ones; --target a,b does it non-interactively.

| Target | Skill destination (→ .rsc/skills/<id>/) | Always-on detector | | --- | --- | --- | | claude | .claude/skills/<id>/ → symlink (copy on Windows) | SessionStart hook in .claude/settings.json | | codex | .codex/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | block in AGENTS.md | | copilot | .github/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | block in .github/copilot-instructions.md | | cursor | .cursor/rules/<id>.mdc (converted) | always-apply rule | | gemini | .gemini/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | block in GEMINI.md | | windsurf | .windsurf/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | rule in .windsurf/rules/rsc-suggest.md | | cline | .clinerules/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | rule in .clinerules/rsc-suggest.md | | antigravity | .antigravity/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | block in .antigravity/AGENTS.md | | zed | .zed/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | block in AGENTS.md | | continue | .continue/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | rule in .continue/rules/rsc-suggest.md | | roo | .roo/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | rule in .roo/rules/rsc-suggest.md | | amp | .amp/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | block in AGENTS.md | | opencode | .opencode/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | block in AGENTS.md | | jules | .jules/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | block in AGENTS.md | | junie | .junie/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | block in .junie/guidelines.md | | kiro | .kiro/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | doc in .kiro/steering/rsc-suggest.md | | aider | .aider/rsc/<id>/ → symlink | block in CONVENTIONS.md |

codex, zed, amp, opencode and jules all share the one root AGENTS.md; the block is idempotent, so picking several writes it once.

Skill format

Each skill is a directory under skills/<name>/ whose SKILL.md frontmatter drives both triggering and the installer's recommendations:

---
name: my-skill
description: Use when [specific triggers]… Triggers: 'phrase', 'frase'. NOT x (that is sibling).
tags: [keyword, keyword]        # what the consult advisor searches over
recommends: [sibling-skill]     # what the system offers to install next
profiles: [core, full]          # optional: named-profile membership
origin: risco
---

The full agent-skill spec lives at agentskills.io/specification.

Repo layout & contributing

skills/<name>/ is the single source of truth — every skill is authored there, once. After editing any skill:

npm run manifest      # regenerate manifest.json from skills/*/SKILL.md
npm run validate      # ajv-validate frontmatter + check recommends integrity
npm test              # unit + integration tests
bash scripts/eval-lint.sh   # validate every skills/*/evals/cases.yaml

manifest.json is generated, never hand-edited; CI runs npm run manifest:check and fails if it's stale or the skill count drifts. Adding a skill is: create skills/<id>/SKILL.md with tags + recommends, run npm run manifest, done — the rubric to hold it to is scripts/skill-rubric.md.

This is a personal catalog. Bug reports welcome via GitHub issues; PRs fixing detector patterns, provider endpoints, or typos are appreciated.

Third-party skills

Most of this catalog is written here. These are not, and they keep their author's credit:

| Skills | Source | License | | --- | --- | --- | | design-eng · animate · animate-expo · review-animations · improve-animations · find-animation-opportunities · animation-vocabulary · apple-design · prototype · pick-ui-library · write-swift · ask-sonner | emilkowalski/skills by Emil Kowalski, commit d23d7f8 | MIT | | part of the AI-tell corpus in design | Leonxlnx/taste-skill | MIT |

Adapted, not mirrored: each one carries rsc frontmatter, routing evals, hand-offs to its siblings and — where it declares a binding rule — a checker with a test. The craft bar in them is the original author's. If you want the source of the motion material rather than this adaptation, go to animations.dev.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.