Houtu Project Skills

中文 | English

A curated collection of skills, practices, and tooling used throughout the project lifecycle — from development to testing and beyond.

🌏 About Houtu

Houtu (后土) originates from Chinese mythology and traditional culture, particularly the concept of “黄天后土” — representing the vast sky and the nurturing earth.

Houtu, known as the Earth Deity (后土娘娘), symbolizes:

• Stability — a solid and reliable foundation
• Support — bearing and sustaining all things
• Nurturing — enabling growth and evolution

This project adopts the name Houtu to reflect its purpose:
👉 to serve as a strong, dependable foundation of engineering skills that support the entire project lifecycle.

🎯 Purpose

This repository is designed to:

• 📦 Collect and organize practical skills used in real-world projects
• 🔄 Support the full project lifecycle:
  • Development
  • Testing
  • Deployment
  • Maintenance
• 🧠 Accumulate engineering knowledge and best practices
• 🚀 Enable continuous learning, iteration, and evolution

🧩 What’s Inside

The repository will continuously evolve and may include:

🔧 Development

• Coding practices
• Design patterns
• Architecture principles
• Code quality & refactoring

🧪 Testing

• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• Test strategies & frameworks
• Automation

⚙️ Engineering Workflow

• Git workflows
• CI/CD practices
• Code review guidelines
• Project collaboration

📈 Project Evolution

• Iteration strategies
• Technical decision records
• Lessons learned
• Performance optimization

📚 Skills

| Skill | Description | Languages | |-------|-------------|-----------| | docs-context | Project development context loader & documentation synchronizer. Automatically loads project standards before coding for context correction, completion, and reconstruction, then syncs documentation after code changes. [Details EN/中文] | EN / 中文 | | houtu-dependencies | Houtu enterprise Java framework usage guide. Helps select the correct module, annotation, and API for scenarios like session management, distributed locking, data encryption, gray routing, and more. [Details EN/中文] | EN / 中文 |

📥 Installation

Install skills via npx. Requires Node.js >= 18 and git.

List available skills:

npx houtu-project-skills list [--version <version>]

Install command:

# Project-level
npx houtu-project-skills install <skill-name> --tool <tool-name> [--version <version>]

# Global
npx houtu-project-skills install <skill-name> --tool <tool-name> [--version <version>] --global

Claude Code

# Project-level
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool claude

# Global
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool claude --global

Codex

# Project-level
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool codex

# Global
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool codex --global

OpenCode

# Project-level
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool opencode

# Global
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool opencode --global

Antigravity

# Project-level
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool antigravity

# Global
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool antigravity --global

Cursor

# Project-level
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool cursor

# Global
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool cursor --global

Trae

# Project-level
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool trae

# Global
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool trae --global

Qoder

# Project-level
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool qoder

# Global
npx houtu-project-skills install docs-context --tool qoder --global

🌱 Philosophy

Build solid foundations. Enable continuous growth.

• Start from practical skills
• Focus on real-world applicability
• Evolve through projects and iteration
• Grow into a systematic engineering knowledge base

🚧 Status

This is a growing repository.
Content will be continuously added, refined, and structured over time.

🤝 Contribution

Contributions are welcome!

If you have:

• Practical skills
• Engineering insights
• Lessons from real projects

Feel free to:

• Open an issue
• Submit a pull request

📜 License

MIT License