gentle-shell skills
Gentle Shell is a Pi-native coding-agent harness for controlled development with Organic Driven Development, optional SDD/OpenSpec, subagents, TDD evidence, review guardrails, skills, and memory integrations. 12 skills. skills-hub.ai mirrors 12 skills from gentle-shell daily, every skill links back to its upstream GitHub source. Install with one command across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible tool.
Installing a gentle-shell skill
Pick a skill below, then run the install command for your AI coding tool. The skills-hub CLI writes the SKILL.md to the right directory and tracks the install in .skills.json so your team gets reproducible installs.
# Install a gentle-shell skill
npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install <skill-slug>
# Browse all gentle-shell skills via API
curl https://skills-hub.ai/api/v1/skills?source=gentle-shell
# Browse all sources
open https://skills-hub.ai/sourcesTop gentle-shell skills
See all →The most-installed skills from gentle-shell, ranked by adoption.
01gentle-ai-branch-pr
Create Gentle AI pull requests with issue-first checks. Trigger: creating, opening, or preparing PRs for review.
Buildfrom gentle-shell02gentle-ai-chained-pr
Trigger: PRs over 400 lines, stacked PRs, review slices. Split oversized changes into chained PRs that protect review focus.
Buildfrom gentle-shell03gentle-ai-cognitive-doc-design
Design docs that reduce cognitive load. Trigger: writing guides, READMEs, RFCs, onboarding, architecture, or review-facing docs.
Buildfrom gentle-shell04gentle-ai-issue-creation
Create and triage GitHub issues from repository evidence. Trigger: issue creation, bug reports, feature requests, or issue approval.
Buildfrom gentle-shell05gentle-ai-judgment-day
Trigger: judgment day, judgement day, dual review, adversarial review, juzgar. Run explicit blind dual review with at most two scoped fix/re-judgment rounds.
Buildfrom gentle-shell06gentle-ai-skill-creator
Trigger: /skill-creation, skill creation, skill creator, create skill, new skill. Create LLM-first skills with valid frontmatter.
Buildfrom gentle-shell07gentle-ai-skill-registry
Trigger: update skills, skill registry, actualizar skills, after skill changes. Index available skills by trigger and path.
Buildfrom gentle-shell08gentle-ai-comment-writer
Write warm, direct collaboration comments. Trigger: PR feedback, issue replies, reviews, Slack messages, or GitHub comments.
Buildfrom gentle-shell09gentle-ai
Use Gentle AI harness discipline for Pi work: clarify first, track ODD work, use applicable test-first development by default, delegate when useful, and protect review workload.
Buildfrom gentle-shell10gentle-ai-rdd-defect-workflow
Trigger: RDD, receipt-driven development, review authority, receipt/lineage, correction/recovery, delivery gate/kill switch, bounded review defects. Guide work.
Buildfrom gentle-shell11gentle-ai-skill-improver
Trigger: improve skills, audit skills, refactor skills, skill quality. Audit and upgrade existing LLM-first skills.
Buildfrom gentle-shell12gentle-ai-work-unit-commits
Plan commits as reviewable work units. Trigger: implementation, commit splitting, chained PRs, or keeping tests and docs with code.
Buildfrom gentle-shell
About this source
skills-hub.ai mirrors skills from 90+ official GitHub repositories every day. Each imported skill is parsed from a SKILL.md file in the source repo, gets a security scan and quality score on import, and links back to its upstream source of truth.
Last sync: Sep 28, 2026, 6:20 PM (success).
gentle-shell skills, frequently asked
What are gentle-shell skills?
gentle-shell skills are AI coding skills published by gentle-shell (Gentle Shell is a Pi-native coding-agent harness for controlled development with Organic Driven Development, optional SDD/OpenSpec, subagents, TDD evidence, review guardrails, skills, and memory integrations. 12 skills.) and mirrored daily on skills-hub.ai. They are SKILL.md files that follow the open Agent Skills standard, so they work in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Windsurf, Copilot, and any MCP-compatible tool.
How many gentle-shell skills are available?
skills-hub.ai indexes 12 skills from gentle-shell, synced daily from the upstream GitHub repository (https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-shell).
How do I install a gentle-shell skill?
Run `npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install <skill-slug>` in your project. The CLI writes the SKILL.md to the right directory for your AI tool and adds it to your `.skills.json` lockfile so your team gets the same skills at the same versions.
Are these official gentle-shell skills?
Yes. Every skill from this source is mirrored from gentle-shell's own GitHub repository (https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-shell). Each skill page links back to the upstream source of truth, so you can verify the original.