kill-the-vibe

Don't let your coding agent outrun your understanding. Review chunks of changes as they come in.

This skill asks coding agents to explain each file or small batch before editing, summarize the diff after editing, and pause for user review before continuing.

Use this skill/workflow when it's important to deeply understand your code's mental model, such as on production-facing features or non-prototype code.

Install

Install the primary skill:

npx skills add nucleartide/kill-the-vibe --skill kill-the-vibe

stepwise-coding is also available as a descriptive alias:

npx skills add nucleartide/kill-the-vibe --skill stepwise-coding

You can also install it through npm, then sync skills from node_modules:

npm install -D kill-the-vibe
npx skills experimental_sync

For a local checkout:

npx skills add . --skill kill-the-vibe

Trigger

Ask your coding agent to use kill-the-vibe explicitly:

Use kill-the-vibe for this task.

The stepwise-coding alias works too:

Use stepwise-coding for this task.

Other useful trigger phrases include guided edits, review-gated edits, teach me as you change files, and pause after each file or small batch.

skills.sh

This repo is structured for skills.sh:

skills.sh.json
skills/kill-the-vibe/SKILL.md
skills/stepwise-coding/SKILL.md

After the repo is public on GitHub, skills.sh will pick it up after someone installs it with the Skills CLI:

npx skills add nucleartide/kill-the-vibe --skill kill-the-vibe