Agent Skills: 7 Commands That Make AI Agents Write Prod Code
AI coding agents are incredible at generating code fast. But ask them to write a spec before touching the keyboard? Review their own output before shipping? Crickets. The problem isn’t the models — it’s that agents lack structured engineering workflows. They jump straight to code. No plan. No tests. No review. It works for small scripts, but for anything production-grade, that shortcut burns you sooner or later. That’s exactly what agent-skills (52.5k★ on GitHub, trending #1 as I type this) is built to fix. Addy Osmani — yes, the Google Chrome engineering manager who wrote the book on JavaScript patterns — put together 7 slash commands that encode senior engineer workflows for Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode. Install once, and your agent suddenly knows how to spec-first, test-drive, and review-before-merge. Like having a staff engineer sitting next to your terminal. ...