Steelbore Skills

A collection of Claude / LLM agent skills used across the Steelbore ecosystem. Each top-level directory is a self-contained skill — a SKILL.md that the agent loads on demand, plus optional references/ files consulted only when a deeper lookup is warranted.

These skills encode conventions, tool preferences, brand rules, and compliance requirements so agents produce Steelbore-consistent output without needing the rules re-attached to every prompt.

Audience

• LLM agents (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, Codex, etc.) loading skills from ~/.claude/skills/, ~/.gemini/skills/, ~/.codex/skills/.
• Humans reviewing, extending, or auditing Steelbore's conventions.

Skills in this repository

Skill	Purpose
nix-shell-provisioner	Use nix-shell for transient tool provisioning (preferred over pip, npm -g, apt, brew).
rust-guidelines	Enforces Microsoft Pragmatic Rust Guidelines before any .rs edit.
steelbore-agentic-cli	Agent-facing UX layer for Steelbore CLIs — pairs with steelbore-cli-standard.
steelbore-brand-guidelines	Applies Steelbore's official colors and typography to artifacts.
steelbore-cli-preference	Modern CLI substitutions: eza for ls, rg for grep, gitway for Git SSH, etc.
steelbore-cli-standard	Enforces the Steelbore Dual-Mode Self-Documenting CLI Standard (SFRS v1.0.0) on every CLI.
steelbore-cli-shell	Syntax-compliance guard for Nushell / Ion / POSIX / Bash commands.
steelbore-document-format	Applies Steelbore theme and formatting to documents.
steelbore-missing-pkg	Handles missing-package situations in the Steelbore workflow.
steelbore-standard	Authoritative compliance reference (The Steelbore Standard v1.0).
steelbore-theme-factory	Generates Steelbore-compliant themes for IDEs and terminals.

Directory layout

Every skill follows the same shape:

<skill-name>/
├── SKILL.md           # Frontmatter + the agent-facing instructions
├── LICENSE.md         # GPL-3.0-or-later (per Steelbore Standard §4)
└── references/        # Optional; consulted only when depth is needed
    ├── <topic>.md
    └── ATTRIBUTION.md # Required when references are adapted from external sources

Skills are also distributed as <skill-name>.skill bundles (zipped) at the repository root for drop-in installation.

Installation

Clone into any of the supported agent skill directories:

# Claude Code
git clone git@github.com:Steelbore/skills.git ~/.claude/skills

# Gemini CLI
git clone git@github.com:Steelbore/skills.git ~/.gemini/skills

# Codex
git clone git@github.com:Steelbore/skills.git ~/.codex/skills

The SSH remote is configured to work with Gitway, Steelbore's pinned-host-key SSH transport for Git.

Standards

All skills in this repository are expected to conform to The Steelbore Standard — including:

• §4 GPL-3.0-or-later license declared in frontmatter.
• §11 ISO 8601 dates throughout.
• Functional naming (no codenames for skill IDs).

License

GPL-3.0-or-later. See LICENSE.md inside each skill directory for the full text.

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