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← Zur aktuellen AusgabeAgent Skills ships 25 production workflows, anti-rationalization tables keep your shortcuts honest
Agent Skills Framework
Your agent just got a senior engineering playbook.
Addy Osmani released Agent Skills, a framework packaging 25 structured workflows for Claude Code, Cursor, and 70+ other agents [Source: GitHub]. The workflows span the full development lifecycle—define, plan, build, verify, review, ship—with nine slash commands that activate relevant patterns automatically. Install via npx or native integrations; the framework embeds practices from Google's engineering culture including test pyramids and trunk-based development.
If your agent lacks guardrails, this fills the gap.
Anti-Rationalization Tables
The most interesting pattern isn't the workflows—it's the countermeasures.
Each Agent Skills workflow includes anti-rationalization tables that preemptively counter the shortcuts you're tempted to take—"I'll add tests later" gets a structured rebuttal before you skip them [Source: GitHub]. The tables pair with verification gates that enforce quality standards at each step. This constraint-driven approach treats your future weak moments as known failure modes rather than surprises.
Worth stealing for your own AGENTS.md files.
Specialist Personas
Four expert roles now come prebuilt.
Agent Skills ships with specialist personas for code review, test engineering, security auditing, and web performance auditing, plus seven reference checklists covering testing patterns, security, performance, and observability [Source: GitHub]. The /build command auto-generates plans and implements tasks autonomously once you approve them. Context-engineering principles guide how information flows to your agent at each step.
Pair these with the three-layer review pattern from yesterday and your verification pipeline gets serious.