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Whetstone
A set of 31 short Claude Code skills, each distilled from one real failure, grouped into verify, plan, change safely, diagnose, and author.
Show HN 2026-08-09 with 20 skills; site now lists 31; last push 2026-10-24. (checked 2026-10-25)
In Skills and plugin packs for coding agents
Where it stands apart
- Which coding agents does it give install steps for? one agent (21% of 19 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (74% of 19 others)
- 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)
- How big is it? a large bundle (more than 10) (58% 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
- agent-skills (implement-spec) 76% of 17 shared answers match
- Superpowers 76% of 17 shared answers match
- Anthropic Agent Skills (anthropics/skills) 71% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) CC BY 4.0, a permissive attribution license but not MIT/Apache/BSD; closest option. | 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) 31 SKILL.md skills packaged as a Claude Code plugin. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which coding agents does it give install steps for? | stands apart one agent Packaged as a Claude Code plugin; the site says any agent that can load a prompt can use the Markdown. | 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? | a plugin marketplace command | source 2026-10-26 |
| How big is it? | a large bundle (more than 10) | source 2026-10-26 |
| What work is it for? | general coding workflow and discipline | 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? | the maker's own practice and failures | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it publish evidence that it makes agents better? | no Each skill ends with a pre-flight checklist; no evals. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it send usage data to its maker? | none documented | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- GitHub · github.com/iamakbarsha1/whetstone · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · whetstone.akbarsha.dev/ · collected 2026-10-26
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