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book-skills
Claude Code skills, one per book (Lean Startup, Pragmatic Programmer, K&R C and others), that apply each book's framework when its ideas come up.
github.com/DamiMartinez/book-skillsMaintenance
Show HN 2026-08-03; last push 2026-08-02, quiet since. (checked 2026-10-25)
In Skills and plugin packs for coding agents
Where it stands apart
- Is it actively maintained? maintenance or slowing (16% of 19 others)
- Which coding agents does it give install steps for? one agent (21% of 19 others)
- How is it mainly installed? clone or copy the files by hand (21% of 19 others)
- How big is it? a small set (2 to 10 skills or commands) (11% of 19 others)
- What work is it for? a mix across many areas (16% of 19 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- How is the main thing licensed? permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) (84% of 19 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? individual side project, no revenue (56% of 18 others)
- Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? yes (95% of 19 others)
- Do you need an account to use it? no account (95% of 19 others)
- Who is it for? developers (79% of 19 others)
- Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? Agent Skills (SKILL.md) (74% of 19 others)
- What is most of it, whatever it's packaged as? Agent Skills (SKILL.md folders), even if packaged as a plugin (63% of 19 others)
- Does it need an outside service beyond the agent and its model? no (74% of 19 others)
- Does it send usage data to its maker? none documented (84% of 19 others)
Nearest neighbors
- Claude Skills Starter Kit 71% of 17 shared answers match
- don't let me (mentor plugin) 71% of 17 shared answers match
- Whetstone 71% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | stands apart maintenance or slowing | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | individual side project, no revenue | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | yes | source 2026-10-26 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | no account | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | developers | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | Agent Skills (SKILL.md) SKILL.md skills, one per book. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which coding agents does it give install steps for? | stands apart one agent | source 2026-10-26 |
| What is most of it, whatever it's packaged as? | Agent Skills (SKILL.md folders), even if packaged as a plugin | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly installed? | stands apart clone or copy the files by hand | source 2026-10-26 |
| How big is it? | stands apart a small set (2 to 10 skills or commands) 8 skills listed. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What work is it for? | stands apart a mix across many areas Management, startups, and programming. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it need an outside service beyond the agent and its model? | no | source 2026-10-26 |
| How does it get the agent to follow it? | instructions only: the model decides (a hook that only loads instructions counts here) | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where does its know-how mainly come from? | published works, guidelines, or methods | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it publish evidence that it makes agents better? | no | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it send usage data to its maker? | none documented | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
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- GitHub · github.com/DamiMartinez/book-skills · read 2026-10-25
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