Recommended Skills

We ship a small set of agent skills for pi and recommend a few from upstream. Each installs with one line:

curl -fsSL https://skale.dev/s/<name> | bash

Our own skills (fetch-url, web-search, surf) enable via pi’s package whitelist; external ones (impeccable, …) run their upstream installer. Browse all installable skills on /skills.

improve-architecture — a 7-skill family

One install pulls in @mattpocock’s architecture-review family — seven skills that work together:

• improve-codebase-architecture — scan for deepening opportunities, render an HTML report, then grill through the one you pick.
• codebase-design — the shared deep-module vocabulary (module, interface, depth, seam, adapter) the others speak.
• domain-modeling — maintain the project’s domain model (CONTEXT.md terms, ADRs).
• grilling — the relentless decision-tree interview at the core of the grill step.
• grill-me — a relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
• grill-with-docs — grilling + domain-modeling combined, writing ADRs/glossary as it goes.
• batch-grill-me — a relentless interview that asks every frontier question at once, round by round.

Install all seven:

curl -fsSL https://skale.dev/s/improve-architecture | bash

They land in .agents/skills/ (pi reads it automatically).

implement — spec/ticket → committed code

Another @mattpocock skill: implement a piece of work from a spec or tickets. TDD at pre-agreed seams where possible, typecheck regularly, run the full suite once at the end, then /code-review and commit to the current branch.

curl -fsSL https://skale.dev/s/implement | bash

Once installed, manage skills and extensions any time with pi config (interactive TUI — space toggles, Tab switches scope) or pi config -l (opens straight in project scope). No re-install needed to turn things on or off.