| name | agent-skill-repository-index |
| description | Find and compare Daniel's reviewed GitHub skill sources. Use for high-star skill discovery, link checks, or safe installation, update, and removal of one selected skill. |
Daniel's Recommended High-Star GitHub Skills
Route agents to reviewed upstream repositories without globally activating every repository. Treat popularity as a discovery signal, never as proof of quality or safety.
Load Only What You Need
- Read references/repositories.md to find and compare sources.
- Read references/star-snapshot.md only when the user asks about popularity or ranking.
- Read references/installing.md before installing, updating, linking, migrating, or removing a skill.
- Run
python3 scripts/verify_repository_index.py --repo-root /absolute/path/to/repos to verify index-to-clone identity. Add --remote when current GitHub reachability matters.
Fast Workflow
- Resolve intent: discovery, comparison, installation, update, removal, or link verification.
- Search already installed skills first. Reuse an equivalent Codex-native skill instead of adding a duplicate.
- Shortlist at most three sources by capability, runtime compatibility, maintenance, license, and risk class. Use stars only as a tie-breaker.
- If a repository is an
awesome-* catalog or has no root SKILL.md, use it for discovery only. Trace the selected item to its original upstream.
- Inspect one candidate directory completely:
SKILL.md, adjacent resources, license, Git remote, commit, worktree state, scripts, hooks, dependencies, credentials, network actions, and persistent state.
- Classify it as
DAILY, LIBRARY, QUARANTINE, or DUPLICATE. Do not install QUARANTINE capabilities without explicit authorization for their runtime effects.
- Follow references/installing.md. Install only the reviewed skill subdirectory, not the entire aggregator.
- Validate metadata and resources, then test one positive trigger and one negative trigger.
- Return an installation receipt containing upstream URL, local source, subpath, commit, license, class, target, install method, adaptations, checks, update method, and rollback method.
Efficient Search
Search metadata before opening files:
rg -n --glob 'SKILL.md' '^(name|description):.*KEYWORD' /absolute/path/to/repos
Then inspect only the chosen skill directory. Scan risky behavior without printing secret values:
rg -l --hidden '(curl.+\|\s*(sh|bash)|sudo\b|rm\s+-rf|cookies?|auth|token|secret|hook|auto.?update|deploy|tunnel|daemon|memory)' /absolute/path/to/candidate
Decision Rules
- Prefer the original upstream, a Codex-native plugin, or a single passive instruction skill.
- Prefer a symlink for a clean reviewed local source that should update with its repository; prefer a normalized copy when Codex-specific adaptation is required.
- Keep catalogs, full runtimes, hooks, MCP servers, auto-updaters, deployers, tunnels, browser profiles, and persistent-memory systems inactive during discovery.
- Preserve dirty repositories and existing targets. Never overwrite or delete them to complete an installation.
- Fetch live star counts only when the user asks for a current ranking. Label the bundled figures as Daniel's July 2026 snapshot.
For “redesign this landing page,” invoke the selected design skill. For “which high-star design skill repository does Daniel recommend, and install the safest option,” invoke this skill first.
