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Debabrata Saha
Debabrata Saha

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Making AI Coding Agents Actually Good at Software Engineering

AI coding agents generate decent code. But decent ≠ production-ready.

They miss the stuff experienced engineers know instinctively — accessibility standards, proper auth flows, database reliability patterns, API design conventions. The gap between "it works" and "it's production-grade" is real.

The Idea

What if we could give AI agents that missing knowledge as loadable skill modules?

That's what TechSkills does — an open-source library of SKILL.md files containing structured workflows, design checklists, and battle-tested patterns that any AI agent can consume.

How It Works

Skills use progressive loading to stay context-efficient:

  1. Metadata — ~100 words, always visible, triggers activation
  2. Core instructions — loaded on activation, kept lean (<500 lines)
  3. References — deep checklists and patterns, loaded only when needed

No context window waste. Agent loads what it needs, when it needs it.

Current Skills

  • 🎨 frontend-engineer — responsive layouts, accessibility, design systems, React/Vue/Svelte
  • ⚙️ backend-engineer — APIs, auth, databases, reliability, observability, security

What Makes It Different

  • Agent-agnostic — works with any AI tool that reads markdown
  • Framework-neutral — pseudocode patterns, not framework-specific recipes
  • Eval-driven — every skill includes eval cases to verify it actually works

Early Stage, Looking for Contributors

This is Day 1. Two foundational skills. The vision is a community-curated library covering DevOps, system design, data engineering, mobile, and more.

If you've got domain expertise and want to turn it into a skill module others can use — contributions are very welcome.

GitHub | 📄 MIT Licensed


What skills would you want your AI agent to have? Drop ideas in the comments 👇

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Debabrata Saha

Will read all your ideas and try to implement it and also want your contribution to make it grow