shared

name	shared
description	Shared resources for universal-creator generator skills: prompting technique registry (techniques.json), the technique-selector subagent, the 18 worked prompt-technique examples (examples/), and the reusable agent trio (agents/) — validation-reviewer, artifact-router, prompt-strategist — plus the shared memory-guardrails snippet. Installed automatically when any dependent generator skill is installed. DO NOT USE directly — consumed by agent-generator, skill-generator, hook-generator, and prompt-generator.
license	MIT

Shared Resources

Shared assets used by every universal-creator generator skill. This directory is dependency-only: it ships when any generator skill that declares dependencies: [shared] is installed.

Contents

• techniques.json — Registry of all 18 prompting techniques with structural signals, use case mappings, and example snippets.
• technique-selector.md — Subagent that classifies a generation request into one of 5 use case categories and returns the technique to embed plus concrete structural requirements.
• examples/ — 18 worked .prompt.md files, one per technique (zero-shot, few-shot, cot, react, reflexion, rag, self-consistency, generate-knowledge, tree-of-thoughts, ape, active-prompt, dsp, pal, multimodal-cot, graph-prompting, meta-prompting, prompt-chaining, art). Read at runtime by any generator that needs to apply or reference a technique example.
• agents/ — Reusable agent definitions: validation-reviewer.agent.md, artifact-router.agent.md, prompt-strategist.agent.md, and the shared _memory-guardrails.md snippet they all link to. These are sync-fanned in from the canonical .github/agents/ source by scripts/sync_agents.py; do not hand-edit.
• scripts/ — Canonical helper scripts (package_skill.py, quick_validate.py, run_eval.py, run_loop.py, utils.py, etc.) used by every generator skill's scripts/ directory; kept in parity via universal-creator sync.

Usage

Generator skills (agent-generator, skill-generator, hook-generator, prompt-generator) spawn technique-selector.md as a subagent during their workflow to determine which prompting technique to embed. Agents and examples are referenced by relative path from the consumer skill (e.g. ../shared/examples/cot.prompt.md, ../shared/agents/validation-reviewer.agent.md).

The techniques.json registry is read by technique-selector at runtime — it is the single source of truth for all technique definitions.

Edit protection

The CLI installer (universal-creator install ...) writes a per-file SHA256 manifest at <scope>/.universal-creator/shared.lock on first install. On reinstall, files whose on-disk hash diverges from the manifest are preserved and skipped with a warning. Pass --force-shared to override the protection and reset the directory to bundled content.