Agent Skills Garden

Reuse-First

Invoked whenever the agent is about to author a new utility, helper, wrapper function, small abstraction, or reach for "let me just write a quick helper for this". The skill enforces the Check-Before-Create gate of Aparigraha: the agent must demonstrate it has looked for an existing equivalent in the codebase and in the project's declared dependencies before writing anything new.

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What the full skill covers

  • Scope
  • Micro-Skills
  • Inputs
  • Outputs
  • Guardrails
  • Ask-When-Ambiguous
  • Decision Criteria
  • Success Criteria