Builder Skills

Skills for coding agents

Small, composable skills for coding agents.

Quick install recommended skills

npx @agent-native/skills@latest add

The interactive picker puts /visual-plan and /visual-recap first and selects only those by default. See the full CLI docs below.

Skills At A Glance

• /visual-plan - Turn text plans into rich visual plans.
• /visual-recap - Turn diffs into interactive visual recaps.
• /agent-watchdog - Audit another agent's work.
• /plan-arbiter - Compare competing plans and choose a direction.
• /plow-ahead - Keep working through ordinary ambiguity.
• /efficient-fable - Orchestrate Fable with cheaper helper agents.
• /efficient-frontier - Preserve high-cost models for judgment.
• /stay-within-limits - Track usage limits before long-running work.
• /quick-recap - End work with a clear status signal.
• /read-the-damn-docs - Check authoritative docs before guessing.

Skill Details

/visual-plan

Turn ordinary text plans into rich interactive visual plans with diagrams, file maps, annotated code, open questions, and UI/prototype review when useful.

Solves for plans that are too important to bury in chat. The output is scannable, commentable, and intuitive enough for a human to approve before code changes start.

Visual plans are MDX, customizable with your own components, and are viewed with the Agent-Native plans app. Source here

/visual-recap

Turn a branch, commit, or PR diff into an interactive visual recap with annotated diffs, diagrams, API/schema summaries, file maps, UI state summaries, and focused review notes.

Solves for diffs that hide the shape of the change. Reviewers can understand contracts, architecture moves, schema changes, and UI impact before diving into raw line-by-line review.

Visual recaps are MDX, customizable with your own components, and are viewed with the Agent-Native plans app. Source here

You can also install a GitHub action for these to be automatically generated for every PR with

npx @agent-native/skills@latest add

/agent-watchdog

Audit another agent's work from a Codex session, Claude Code transcript, PR, branch, or run summary.

Solves for cross-agent handoffs: watch until done, reconstruct what was asked, check what actually changed and verified, report gaps, and optionally make narrow fixes.

/plan-arbiter

Compare competing agent plans and choose one executable direction.

Solves for multi-agent planning loops where Codex, Claude Code, or other agents produce separate strategies. The output is a decision memo with the winning or hybrid plan, rejected alternatives, verification gates, and executor recommendation.

/plow-ahead

Keep working through ordinary ambiguity and finish with a clear decision recap.

Solves for explicit autonomy requests: the agent converts routine questions into assumptions, proceeds with conservative choices, validates the work, and recaps the decisions it made without stopping.

/efficient-fable

Use Claude Fable as the orchestrator, architect, synthesizer, and final judge while lighter agents handle token-heavy research, coding, testing, and log reduction.

Solves for expensive-model waste: Fable should spend tokens on judgment, not on reading every file, reducing every log, or manually running every browser check.

/efficient-frontier

Apply the same orchestration as /efficient-fable to any high-cost frontier model: preserve the expensive model for planning, tradeoffs, integration, validation strategy, and final review; use cheaper agents for bounded heavy lifting.