Popular Coding & Development Skills
Code generation, GitHub workflows, testing, reviews, and front-end development.
Coding skills help agents move from suggesting snippets to completing repeatable development work. This collection covers repository operations, debugging, test generation, code review, documentation, and front-end workflows. Rankings favor skills with clear tooling requirements and public source material, so you can understand what will run before adding it to your environment.
- Review pull requests and issues
- Debug failing builds
- Generate tests and documentation
- Automate repository maintenance
Top Coding & Development Skills
Ranked by their position in the current overall directory snapshot.
Spark Training Gotchas
Preflight and diagnose the ten known failure modes for ML training on NVIDIA DGX Spark. Use when a training run on DGX Spark fails to start, OOMs below the 128GB limit, slows down mid-run, or before any multi-hour training job on GB10.
Startup Financial Modeling
Build comprehensive 3-5 year financial models with revenue projections, cost structures, cash flow analysis, and scenario planning for early-stage startups. Use this skill when creating financial projections, calculating burn rate or runway, modeling fundraising scenarios, or preparing investor-ready financials for a seed or Series A raise.
Startup Metrics Framework
Track, calculate, and optimize key performance metrics for SaaS, marketplace, consumer, and B2B startups from seed through Series A, including unit economics, growth efficiency, and cash management. Use this skill when defining a metrics framework, calculating CAC/LTV/burn multiple, benchmarking business health, or preparing metrics dashboards for investors or board reporting.
Stripe Integration
Implement Stripe payment processing for robust, PCI-compliant payment flows including checkout, subscriptions, and webhooks. Use when integrating Stripe payments, building subscription systems, or implementing secure checkout flows.
Team Composition Analysis
Design optimal team structures, hiring plans, compensation strategies, and equity allocation for early-stage startups from pre-seed through Series A. Use this skill when planning headcount, determining which roles to hire next, setting compensation or equity ranges, designing org structure, or building a hiring budget aligned to funding milestones.
Temporal Python Testing
Test Temporal workflows with pytest, time-skipping, and mocking strategies. Covers unit testing, integration testing, replay testing, and local development setup. Use when implementing Temporal workflow tests or debugging test failures.
Track Management
Use this skill when creating, managing, or working with Conductor tracks - the logical work units for features, bugs, and refactors. Applies to spec.md, plan.md, and track lifecycle operations.
Turborepo Caching
Configure Turborepo for efficient monorepo builds with local and remote caching. Use when setting up Turborepo, optimizing build pipelines, or implementing distributed caching.
Typescript Advanced Types
Master TypeScript's advanced type system including generics, conditional types, mapped types, template literals, and utility types for building type-safe applications. Use when implementing complex type logic, creating reusable type utilities, or ensuring compile-time type safety in TypeScript projects.
Unity Ecs Patterns
Master Unity ECS (Entity Component System) with DOTS, Jobs, and Burst for high-performance game development. Use when building data-oriented games, optimizing performance, or working with large entity counts.
Uv Package Manager
Master the uv package manager for fast Python dependency management, virtual environments, and modern Python project workflows. Use when setting up Python projects, managing dependencies, or optimizing Python development workflows with uv.
Visual Design Foundations
Apply typography, color theory, spacing systems, and iconography principles to create cohesive visual designs. Use when establishing design tokens, building style guides, or improving visual hierarchy and consistency.
Web Component Design
Master React, Vue, and Svelte component patterns including CSS-in-JS, composition strategies, and reusable component architecture. Use when building UI component libraries, designing component APIs, or implementing frontend design systems.
Web3 Testing
Test smart contracts comprehensively using Hardhat and Foundry with unit tests, integration tests, and mainnet forking. Use when testing Solidity contracts, setting up blockchain test suites, or validating DeFi protocols.
Workflow Orchestration Patterns
Design durable workflows with Temporal for distributed systems. Covers workflow vs activity separation, saga patterns, state management, and determinism constraints. Use when building long-running processes, distributed transactions, or microservice orchestration.
Workflow Patterns
Use this skill when implementing tasks according to Conductor's TDD workflow, handling phase checkpoints, managing git commits for tasks, or understanding the verification protocol.
Tailwind Design System
Build scalable design systems with Tailwind CSS v4, design tokens, component libraries, and responsive patterns. Use when creating component libraries, implementing design systems, or standardizing UI patterns.
Ab Test Analysis
Analyze A/B test results with statistical significance, sample size validation, confidence intervals, and ship/extend/stop recommendations. Use when evaluating experiment results, checking if a test reached significance, interpreting split test data, or deciding whether to ship a variant.
Brainstorm Experiments Existing
Design experiments to test assumptions for an existing product — prototypes, A/B tests, spikes, and other low-effort validation methods. Use when validating assumptions, testing feature ideas cheaply, or planning product experiments.
Dummy Dataset
Generate realistic dummy datasets for testing with customizable columns, constraints, and output formats (CSV, JSON, SQL, Python script). Use when creating test data, building mock datasets, or generating sample data for development and demos.
Identify Assumptions Existing
Identify risky assumptions for a feature idea in an existing product across Value, Usability, Viability, and Feasibility. Uses multi-perspective devil's advocate thinking. Use when stress-testing a feature idea, doing risk assessment, or preparing for assumption mapping.
Pre Mortem
Run a pre-mortem risk analysis on a PRD or launch plan. Categorizes risks as Tigers (real problems), Paper Tigers (overblown concerns), and Elephants (unspoken worries), then classifies as launch-blocking, fast-follow, or track. Use when preparing for launch, stress-testing a product plan, or identifying what could go wrong.
Prioritize Assumptions
Prioritize assumptions using an Impact × Risk matrix and suggest experiments for each. Use when triaging a list of assumptions, deciding what to test first, or applying the assumption prioritization canvas.
Strategy Red Team
Red-team a PRD, roadmap, or strategy by attacking its load-bearing assumptions before reality does. Steelmans then attacks each claim, ranks failure modes by impact × likelihood × cheapness-to-test, and returns the cheapest test and kill criteria for each. Use when stress-testing a plan, pressure-testing a strategy, challenging assumptions, or preparing a doc for executive review.
Data Manager Api Audience Ingestion
Guides developers through managing (adding, removing, and clearing) audience members for Google products using the Data Manager API and its associated client libraries. Use this skill when the user wants to upload audience members, remove specific users, or clear/replace an entire audience for Customer Match, mobile device ID audiences, or any other audience use case supported by the Data Manager API. Don't use for uploading events or conversions (use the data-manager-api-event-ingestion skill).
Data Manager Api Event Ingestion
Guides developers through implementing event and conversion ingestion to Google products using the Data Manager API /v1/events/ingest endpoint and its associated client libraries. Use this skill when the user wants to upload offline conversions, enhanced conversions for leads, click conversions, Google Analytics web or app events, or any other event ingestion use case supported by the Data Manager API. Don't use for uploading audience members (use the data-manager-api-audience-ingestion skill).
Data Manager Api Setup
Guides developers through client library installation and authentication setup steps for the Data Manager API. Use this skill when a user is getting started with the Data Manager API and needs to setup their local environment, install the client library, or setup access to the API. Don't use for implementing audience or event ingestion logic (use the data-manager-api-audience-ingestion or data-manager-api-event-ingestion skills instead).
Baseline Ui
Quickly deslop UI code by fixing spacing, hierarchy, typography, and small layout issues. Use when the interface needs a fast cleanup or polish pass.
Acquisition Channel Advisor
Evaluate acquisition channels using unit economics, customer quality, and scalability. Use when deciding whether to scale, test, or kill a growth channel.
Ai Shaped Readiness Advisor
Assess whether your product work is AI-first or AI-shaped. Use when evaluating AI maturity and choosing the next team capability to build.
Altitude Horizon Framework
Understand the PM-to-Director transition through altitude and horizon thinking. Use when diagnosing scope, time-horizon, or leadership-level gaps.
Ansoff Matrix
Map evidence-backed growth options across the Ansoff Matrix with risk-rated sequencing. Use when the question is where the next tranche of growth comes from, and at what risk.
Business Health Diagnostic
Diagnose SaaS business health across growth, retention, efficiency, and capital. Use when preparing a business review or prioritizing urgent fixes.
Context Engineering Advisor
Diagnose context stuffing vs. context engineering. Use when an AI workflow feels bloated, brittle, or hard to steer reliably.
Customer Journey Map
Create a customer journey map across stages, touchpoints, actions, emotions, and metrics. Use when diagnosing a broken experience or aligning a team on the full customer flow.
Customer Journey Mapping Workshop
Run a customer journey mapping workshop with adaptive questions and outputs. Use when you need to map stages, actions, emotions, pain points, and opportunities for a persona and scenario.
Derisk Measurement Advisor
Identify what to measure, test, or track to de-risk a product or AI idea. Use when stress-testing an idea across internal (DUFV) and external (PESTEL) dimensions.
Director Readiness Advisor
Guide the PM-to-Director transition across preparing, interviewing, landing, and recalibrating. Use when leadership scope is changing and you need practical coaching.
Discovery Process
Run a full discovery cycle from problem hypothesis to validated solution. Use when a team needs a structured path through framing, interviews, synthesis, and experiments.
Eol Checklist
Build a phase-gated EOL checklist sized to the sunset, with a named owner on every item. Use when the decision to retire is made and you need the operational plan.
Eol Internal Enablement
Build the support FAQ, sales talking points, and objection handling teams need before an EOL announcement. Use when customer-facing teams must be ready before customers hear.
Eol Process
Run a product sunset end to end — decide, align, plan, prepare, announce, close. Use when you need the whole EOL process, not just one artifact.
Eol Stakeholder Sequence
Plan who to talk to about a sunset, in what order, and what each conversation must cover. Use when an EOL decision is made and you want the landmines found before the announcement.
Epic Hypothesis
Frame an epic as a testable hypothesis with target user, expected outcome, and validation method. Use when defining a major initiative before roadmap, discovery, or delivery planning.
Executive Onboarding Playbook
Plan a VP or CPO 30-60-90 day diagnostic onboarding path. Use when entering a new executive product role and avoiding premature change.
Feature Investment Advisor
Evaluate feature investments using revenue impact, cost structure, ROI, and strategy. Use when deciding whether a feature deserves investment.
Finance Based Pricing Advisor
Evaluate pricing changes using ARPU, conversion, churn risk, NRR, and payback. Use when deciding whether a pricing move should ship.
Finance Metrics Quickref
Look up SaaS finance metrics, formulas, and benchmarks fast. Use when you need a quick metric definition, formula, or benchmark during analysis.
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What is a coding agent skill?
It is a reusable instruction package that teaches an AI agent a focused coding & development workflow, often including commands, checks, and supporting resources.
Which coding skill should I try first?
Start with a narrow task you already understand. The current category leader is Github, but requirements and access scope matter more than rank alone.
Does a popular skill mean it is safe?
No. Popularity reflects adoption and interest, not a security guarantee. Read SKILL.md, review commands and dependencies, and test with minimal permissions.