singhharsh1708

Kitbash — AI skill for Claude Code

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The package manager and compiler for AI agent skills — write once, run in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more.

How to install Kitbash

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open singhharsh1708/kitbash and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Kitbash does

The package manager and compiler for AI agent skills — write once, run in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more.

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README

Kitbash

Kitbash is a compiler for AI agent skills that measures what a skill costs your context window every session — before you install it.

You write the skill once in one open format ([KSF](spec/SPEC.md)) and compile it to the native format of ten coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Zed, Cline, Devin, Gemini CLI, Aider, the vendor-neutral `.agents/skills/` path, and the `AGENTS.md` floor — plus an opt-in eleventh target, the [Agent Plugins](https://agent-plugins.org) v1.0 package format. While compiling, it measures each output's **standing** cost: the tokens the skill parks in context on every request, whether or not it ever gets used.

kitbash demo: init, install a real third-party skill, compile to three agents

npm install -g kitbash      # or: brew install singhharsh1708/tap/kitbash
kitbash init
kitbash preview gh:singhharsh1708/kitbash/examples/skills/prereview   # read it first — nothing is written
kitbash install gh:singhharsh1708/kitbash/examples/skills/prereview
kitbash compile

In a repo that already has `.claude/` and `.cursor/`, that last command prints:

→ .claude/skills/prereview/SKILL.md
→ .claude/commands/prereview.md
→ .cursor/rules/prereview.mdc
→ AGENTS.md
ℹ prereview → agentsmd: agentsmd is eager and cannot lazy-load, so this skill adds ~560 tokens standing every session (a lazy target pays 0; declared limit 60)
compiled 1 skill for 3 targets
  8 more target(s) available — add agents, zed, copilot, … under [project].targets in kitbash.toml, or create their agent dirs.

The `ℹ` line is why this is a compiler, not a converter

The identical instructions cost ~40 standing tokens on a target that lazy-loads and ~560 on one that can't — a **14× per-session tax**, charged before the skill is ever invoked, on every agent that has