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Focused agent skills for software work, testing, naming, and interactive decision stress-testing.

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Ajans

Ajans is the canonical public agent configuration for this workspace. It keeps user-wide agent instructions, focused reusable skills, client bootstrap instructions, and validation fixtures in one repository.

Layout

  • agents/AGENTS.md: public user-wide agent instructions.
  • agents/chatgpt/PROMPT.md: bootstrap prompt for ChatGPT Projects.
  • agents/chatgpt/SYSTEM.md: ChatGPT-specific instructions and lazy skill-loading rules.
  • skills/<name>/SKILL.md: reusable Agent Skills and their skill-local resources.
  • tests/: skill-package validation and regression fixtures.

Private agent or workspace-specific state belongs outside this repository, normally in the private home- companion repository or local runtime state.

Installation

The maintainer setup uses Ajans as a sibling source checkout, like the Tilde control plane. Tilde projects agents/AGENTS.md and the skill directories into the shared ~/.agents surface. It does not install Ajans as a plugin or a skill package.

Other users can install the portable skill collection with a compatible Agent Plugin client. They can also use the Skills CLI:

npx skills add roktas/ajans

Agent Plugins

Ajans is packaged as an Agent Plugins v1 plugin. The root plugin.json declares the v1.0.0 schema, and portable skills live at the standard skills/<name>/SKILL.md discovery location. Client-specific files bundled inside a skill, such as agents/openai.yaml, remain skill-local metadata and are not portable Agent Plugins component types.

Validate

Run from the repository root:

ruby tests/skills.rb
ruby tests/skills.rb tests/fixtures/skills

The general audit validates skill frontmatter, OpenAI interface metadata, and package-local Markdown links. The fixture invocation covers fenced and inline examples, comments, site-root URLs, and titled package links.

Sources

Grilling

skills/grilling is adapted from Matt Pocock's grilling skill and stays intentionally close to the original. The local version makes fact discovery tool-agnostic so it can work across agent environments. The upstream skill is MIT-licensed; its license notice is preserved in skills/grilling/LICENSE.

Testing

skills/testing is adapted from Matt Pocock's tdd skill. Ajans keeps its behavioral testing, public-seam, anti-pattern, mocking-boundary, and red-green ideas, but makes TDD an explicit test-first mode inside a broader testing skill. The upstream skill is MIT-licensed; its license notice is preserved in skills/testing/LICENSE.

If these skills are useful to you, browse the broader mattpocock/skills repository. It contains other focused skills that are worth reviewing directly at the source.

Simple English

The Simple English guidance in agents/chatgpt/SYSTEM.md incorporates the standalone system prompt from AminBlg's SimpleEnglish project. The upstream work uses the MIT License:

Copyright (c) 2026 AminBlg

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

External Skills

ChatGPT loads the ponytail skill from its upstream repository. Dietrich Gebert distributes Ponytail under the MIT License.

ChatGPT loads the use-modern-go skill and its fallback guidelines from the upstream Modern Go Guidelines repository. The JetBrains GoLand Team distributes Modern Go Guidelines under the Apache License 2.0.