Stop duplicating agent skills across repos

What it does dotai is a shared library of agent skills—operational playbooks for coding agents. Each skill defines a routing workflow, from test-driven development loops to root-cause debugging and delete-first repo cleanup. Repositories reference these canonical definitions instead of maintaining their own lengthy instruction files.

The interesting bit Skills serve as the main routing layer for agents, not just static prompts. The repo explicitly models dependencies between skills—debug optionally pulls in tdd, autogoal optionally activates orchestrator—which is more structure than a typical folder of markdown snippets.

Key highlights

• Six built-in skills: autogoal, debug, hard-cut, orchestrator, tdd, and video-transcripts.
• Dependency chains between skills (e.g., debug optionally pulls in tdd).
• scripts/validate-skills for checking edits.
• Strict editing rules: operational bodies, no secrets, no private hostnames.

Caveats

• Hard dependencies on Codex-specific APIs and external binaries (curl, jq, Gemini keys) for several skills.
• The skills CLI and its versioning mechanism are not documented in the README.

Verdict Teams running agent-driven development across multiple repos get the most value; solo developers maintaining a single codebase probably do not need the abstraction.