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LilMGenius/paperthin agent skills

Every skill in the LilMGenius/paperthin repository on GitHub, ranked by score, with the commands to install them.
skills
28
GitHub stars
1.1k

GitHub description: “Low-level agentic design patterns. Turning old engineering wisdom into reflexes your agent reaches for on its own—on any agent.”

Stars
1,130 (113 forks)
Licence
MIT
Last push
Oct 2026
Created
Jun 2026
Homepage
paperthin.ai
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Install all skills

skills CLI (any agent)
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin

Add --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).

Skills in LilMGenius/paperthin, ranked

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Skills in LilMGenius/paperthin, ranked
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1

Size a task's run before spending it: the cheapest sufficient capability tier (fast, standard, frontier) and the reasoning effort within it, on a neutral scale that binds to whatever levels the…

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
2

Run repeated build - QA - re0-memo - re0-work cycles while preserving learning and letting code die.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~579Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
3

Carve guardrail-adjacent items out of scope with safe alternatives before risk-adjacent work starts, then run the safe remainder at full strength in a fresh subagent that only ever sees the carved…

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
4

Rebuild the human's lost context on a project from live state, in plain language: what needs them, what changed, what new words mean.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~785Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
5

Compress an artifact that has accreted into bloat — padding, over-qualification, fused sentences, walls of enumeration, adjacent restatement — down to its load-bearing density, meaning preserved.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~813Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
6

Verify reality-grounded claims against external sources in both directions before they ship — could the 'absurd' be real, could the 'obvious' be false or long-established?

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~717Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
7
7.Nba

Read the live cycle state and return the single highest-leverage next best action, not a menu.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~540Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
8

Split one artifact — a claim, plan, or file — across 2 to 5 independent lenses, one per genuinely distinct failure mode (correctness, security, readability, cost, adversarial-user), and return their…

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~773Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
9
9.Re0

Refresh an existing artifact into the current best v0. An agent skill from LilMGenius/paperthin.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~716Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
10

Review and land an external contribution the way this suite does: gate it against the thesis, land it with the author's credit intact, complete a new skill rather than merging it raw, then approve…

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
11

Restart a project or artifact from v0 while preserving only proven lessons, contracts, gates, vocabulary, real-surface tests, and negative corpus.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~566Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
12

Verify the model's understanding of a user's instruction before spending non-trivial work.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~688Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
13

Realign a listing whose order has gone arbitrary — a list, table, catalog, sections, an enum — into a logical sequence under one stated principle.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~606Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
14

Cold-read the artifact you're focused on from a fresh, zero-context sub-session to confirm it stands on its own — a shower-thought reset for accumulated session bias.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~820Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
15

Audit and consolidate a fact that's scattered across places into one canonical source, after approval, and replace the rest with references.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
16

Remove em-dashes and the dashes standing in for them from a user-owned scope, reading each occurrence in context and choosing the punctuation or wording that fits.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~948Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
17

Make durable artifacts portable by replacing incidental stack, vendor, model, CLI, path, quota, or harness nouns with the mechanism they mean, while keeping provenance, runbooks, and tool-subject…

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~895Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
18

Press a decision you just made until you can explain it to a skeptic in your own words, or surface the gap where you can't.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
19
19.Hate

Attack a plan, design, or argument like you want it to fail before you commit real effort — return the single load-bearing objection and the cheapest experiment that would prove it matters, not a…

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~604Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
20

User-invoked read-only pass for checking whether the current direction is tunnel-visioned: strip the session's bait, fan out 2 to 5 same-model fresh reads, and report divergence first without…

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
21

Audit any eval, metric, experiment, or benchmark for leakage — does external ground-truth enter independently, or are the model, scorer, and designer just confirming a result no outside truth ever…

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~798Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
22

Rewrite a finished commit's message into a clean, handoff-ready form in your own log style, so git log alone tells the story.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
23

Turn a finished, failed, or disappointing work cycle into portable lessons, anti-patterns, quality gates, and next-cycle vocabulary.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~815Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
24

Open a paperthin iteration's casebook before re0-loop's first turn — seeded with real content the moment the folder exists, never an empty directory.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
25

Walk a pending change through this repo's shipping and releasing checklist end to end, then tag and publish once confirmed.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
26

Bring your installed paperthin skills up to the full current catalog in one step: retire what's been renamed, add every skill you don't have yet, and refresh the rest, all shown and confirmed before…

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
27
27.Sip

After you create or change an artifact or skill, taste-test it with our own skills instead of trusting your in-session judgment — recursive self-improvement, made automatic.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~761Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
28
28.Aim

When data lands with a thin ask — files, a repo, a paste, a chat scrollback — read it and propose what the user is trying to do with it, as a proposal to confirm rather than a question to answer.

LilMGenius/paperthin1.1k—~406Automated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best skill in LilMGenius/paperthin?

Modelchk from LilMGenius/paperthin ranks first of the 28 skills in LilMGenius/paperthin listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 1.1k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 1.6k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Re0 Loop and Autobahn.

Are the skills in LilMGenius/paperthin official?

None yet. All 28 skills in LilMGenius/paperthin listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.

How do I install all skills from LilMGenius/paperthin?

Run npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.

How are these skills ranked?

By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.