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44 skills that make autonomous software development actually work.

AI agents are powerful but chaotic. They hallucinate requirements, forget context between sessions, skip verification, and produce work that needs rework. The problem isn't intelligence — it's discipline.

These plugins encode the discipline. 7 behavioral plugins, 44 skills — from strategic scouting to specification writing to structured retrospectives. Every skill exists because we needed it while shipping real software with autonomous agents. And then needed it again.

40-50% timeline reduction. 77 hours saved through pre-flight verification alone.

The Philosophy

Most plugin marketplaces optimize for quantity. We optimize for quality.

These aren't "10 AI prompts for productivity." These are battle-tested workflows from actually shipping software with autonomous agents—retrospectives that surfaced patterns, specifications that prevented rewrites, scouting sessions that saved weeks of misdirected effort.

Every skill here exists because we needed it. And then needed it again.

Plugins

Plugin	Verb	Skills	What it does
strategic-thinking	STRATEGIZE	5	Scout tensions before committing to solutions. Position products, design multi-surface strategies, bridge vision to execution with iterative refinement.
specification-driven-development	SPECIFY	10	Write specs grounded in codebase reality, not wishful thinking. Transform them into implementation prompts, commission parallel tracks, verify alignment before handoff.
wisdom-garden	REMEMBER	5	Compress session context into lasting memory. Reflect on patterns as seeds, elevate proven seeds into reusable skills. Knowledge is cultivated, not just stored.
system-health	OBSERVE	8	Audit ecosystem health, map semantic clusters across codebases, track documentation drift, sync repo context. You cannot improve what you do not observe.
continuous-learning	LEARN	7	Harvest sprint learnings through structured retrospectives. Research deeply and widely, diagnose systematically, explore new projects with curiosity as compass.
agent-orchestration	ORCHESTRATE	4	Handoffs are sacred relays, not tosses over the wall. Clean context preservation, shared workspace navigation, peer teaching, decision propagation across living documents.
skill-forge	BUILD	4	The meta-layer—skills about making skills. Create, maintain, audit, and evolve the reusable patterns that power every other plugin.

What Makes This Different

Most AI productivity tools:

• Give you fish (single-use prompts)
• Optimize for speed over understanding
• Treat errors as failures, not feedback
• Assume one-size-fits-all workflows

These plugins:

• Teach you to fish (transferable patterns)
• Optimize for understanding over extraction
• Treat errors as data (debug systematically, retrospect honestly)
• Adapt to your context (skills are templates, not scripts)

Quick Start

Each plugin is self-contained with:

• README.md — Overview, philosophy, skill table, trigger phrases
• CONNECTORS.md — External service integrations (MCPs, APIs, data sources)
• agents/ — Agent persona definitions for specialized work
• commands/ — Command-line interfaces and keyboard shortcuts
• skills/ — Full workflow definitions (SKILL.md files with progressive disclosure)

Fastest path to value:

1. Start with strategic-thinking:scout when facing a decision with no obvious answer
2. Use specification-driven-development:release-specification before commissioning autonomous agents
3. Run continuous-learning:retro after every major release to harvest learnings
4. Apply wisdom-garden:compression-ritual at the end of long sessions to preserve context
5. Lean on system-health:health-audit when codebases feel brittle or documentation drifts

The Use Cases

Strategic work:

• Should we build native mobile or invest in web-first? → strategic-thinking:product-positioning
• We have a vision but no clear path → strategic-thinking:scout + strategic-thinking:iterative-scouting
• Designing a product across desktop, mobile, web → strategic-thinking:multi-surface-strategy

Specification and planning:

• Writing a release spec for an autonomous agent → specification-driven-development:release-specification
• Frontend spec grounded in existing backend → specification-driven-development:frontend-from-backend
• Splitting a large project into parallel tracks → specification-driven-development:parallel-tracks
• Verifying spec is ready for handoff → specification-driven-development:pre-implementation-checklist

Memory and context:

• Long conversation getting unwieldy → wisdom-garden:compression-ritual
• Capturing a learning for future reference → wisdom-garden:memory-garden
• Formalizing a repeated workflow → wisdom-garden:seed-extraction → skill-forge:skill-creation

System health:

• New codebase, need to understand it → system-health:repo-status + system-health:semantic-clusters
• Documentation feels stale → system-health:documentation-audit
• Need full health audit before major work → system-health:health-audit

Learning and debugging:

• Something broke, need systematic diagnosis → continuous-learning:debug
• Researching a decision → continuous-learning:deep-research or continuous-learning:wide-research
• Post-sprint reflection → continuous-learning:retro
• Exploring a new project → continuous-learning:project-exploration

Agent coordination:

• Handing off work between agents → agent-orchestration:handoff-protocol
• Teaching another agent → agent-orchestration:agent-teaching
• Decision needs to propagate through docs → agent-orchestration:decision-propagation
• Navigating shared workspace → agent-orchestration:workspace-navigation

The Reality Check

These plugins won't make you ship faster on day one.

They'll make you ship better—which compounds into shipping faster, with less rework, and more learning preserved.

If you're optimizing for throughput over understanding, these aren't for you. If you're building for the long term, cultivating patterns that scale, and treating governance as an investment rather than overhead—welcome home.

Origin

Built by Dojo Genesis at Tres Pies Design.

These plugins encode patterns discovered through practice—retrospectives that surfaced friction, specifications that prevented rewrites, scouting sessions that reframed stuck decisions, and the daily work of building software with autonomous agents.

No silver bullets. Just better attention.

Versioning

Current version: 1.1.0

We follow semantic versioning with a cultivation mindset:

• Patch (1.1.x): Bug fixes, typo corrections, minor clarifications
• Minor (1.x.0): New skills, enhanced workflows, backward-compatible improvements
• Major (x.0.0): Breaking changes, major restructuring, philosophical shifts

See CHANGELOG.md for version history.

Contributing

Found a pattern worth sharing? A skill that could be clearer? A workflow that needs a better name?

Open a PR. These plugins grow through use—yours, ours, everyone's.

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.

Cultivate. Harvest. Share. Repeat.