Kevin Veen-BirkenbachandClaude Opus 5
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The existing rule demands a negative control for a check the author writes. It says nothing about a check the author cites as the reason a change is safe, and that gap is what a 42-day CI regression rode through. Measured in infinito-nexus-core on 2026-09-18. A sweep renamed twelve workflow files, and its commit message claimed a lint guarded exactly that rename. The lint's docstring promised "every workflow file named anywhere in the repository exists". Its pattern required a directory prefix, so a bare filename was invisible: it reported zero offenders while twenty real ones sat in the tree, one of them a `gh workflow run` at a file that no longer existed. GitHub resolves such a name to the deleted workflow's tombstone and answers HTTP 422, so the scheduled release job failed on 41 consecutive runs and nobody read the regex. Reading the pattern instead of the prose, and watching the check fail on the case being trusted to it, costs a minute and would have caught it on day one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
skills 🧠
The agent skill collection of Kevin Veen-Birkenbach.
Every skill is pinned in skills-lock.json for reproducible installs.
First-party skills live under skills/ and are layered on top of the locked ones at install time.
Compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Cline, and other agents.
Requirements 📦
- Node.js (provides
npx skills). jq(only required formake update).
Installation 🚀
Install the skills globally into your home (~/.agents/skills and ~/.claude/skills):
make install
Copy the skills into a specific project (<repo>/.agents/skills and <repo>/.claude/skills):
make project TARGET=/path/to/repo
Both commands also patch the target's .claude/settings.json: the caveman and ponytail plugins are enabled so their modes auto-activate on session start, and two reminder hooks are registered — autotune points you at /autotune at most once an hour, dream points you at /dream at most once every twelve hours per repository (stamped in that repository's git dir). Existing settings are preserved.
Restart your agent afterwards so it loads the new skills.
Maintenance 🔧
Refresh every skill to its latest version and rewrite skills-lock.json:
make update
Validate skills-lock.json and shellcheck the scripts (also run by CI on every push and after every update):
make test
Related Tools 🧰
This collection is part of a wider toolset for managing IT and infrastructure:
- alias — shell aliases for common commands.
- package-manager —
pkgmgr, a single command to install and manage these repositories. - infinito-nexus — automation platform for self-hosted infrastructure.
License 📜
MIT License, Copyright (c) 2026 Kevin Veen-Birkenbach.
Author 👤
Kevin Veen-Birkenbach kevin@veen.world
Thanks 🙏
Thanks to the #ai:infinito.nexus community, and especially to Paulinhx for the inspiration.
Donation ❤️
If these tools help you, consider supporting their development: