Repository
dpc/tau agent skills
- skills
- 15
- GitHub stars
- 104
GitHub description: “Tau Coding Agent - like Pi, but twice as much”
- Stars
- 104 (9 forks)
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Apr 2026
- Homepage
- tau-agent.dev
- Source
- github.com/dpc/tau
- ai
- ai-agent
- ai-harness
- cli
- unix
Install all skills
npx skills add dpc/tauAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in dpc/tau, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A skill your agent uses when selfci, Nix CI, coverage, cargo-crap, CRAP-score, crapAbsolute, or crapReport checks fail in Tau, or before changing the cargo-crap gates, thresholds, or flagged complex… | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 2 | A skill your agent uses when asked to "triage papercuts", review clanker-reported problems, or analyze and clear tau dev papercut reports. | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 3 | A skill your agent uses when asked to verify Tau harness tools or tool output behavior, especially read, edit, shell/shellcommand, line-oriented output, truncation, metadata headers, UTF-8 handling… | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 4 | A skill your agent uses when verifying Tau file and command tools: read, edit, replace, applypatch, shell, or shellcommand, including ranges, UTF-8, truncation, diffs, timeouts, mutation safety, and… | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 5 | A skill your agent uses when changing or reviewing Tau's static site under site/ and needing visual verification of layout, spacing, colors, alignment, desktop rendering, mobile rendering, or… | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~308 | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 6 | A skill your agent uses when tracing or auditing Tau agent execution, including provider and cache cost, tool/background/wait latency, outer turns, compaction, delegated workflows, or performance… | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~658 | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 7 | A skill your agent uses when verifying Tau agentstart, message, or agentwatch coordination, including routing, validation, interruption, notification formatting, watch lifecycle, and deduplication. | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~6.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 8 | A skill your agent uses when verifying Tau background tool execution, wait, cancel, or agentstart interruption, including result consumption, completion prompt suppression, races, delegate… | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~5.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 9 | Generate routine trailing-two-week provider/model latency and output-throughput CSV and SVG charts from content-free durable agent traces. | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 10 | 10.Tau Qodq Extract and chart canonical provider quota observations and terminal token usage as offline, privacy-aware CSV, SVG, and summary artifacts. | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 11 | 11.Tau Release A skill your agent uses when preparing or carrying out an explicitly authorized Tau application release; not for SDK-only releases. | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 12 | A skill your agent uses when verifying Tau dirlock behavior, including manual and automatic lock scopes, conflict matrices, lock wait metadata, cancellation, force unlock, and lifecycle cleanup. | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 13 | Run and diagnose Tau's always-on deterministic fake-provider end-to-end tests. | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~445 | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 14 | Use Tau's dev tmux helper for manual agent-controlled end-to-end testing of the current checkout. | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~659 | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 15 | Verify Tau status state and title transitions, validation, acknowledgement persistence, and activation steering around tools and watched agents. | dpc/ | 104 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in dpc/tau?
Tau Cargo Crap from dpc/tau ranks first of the 15 skills in dpc/tau listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 104 GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 1.2k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Tau Papercut Triage and Tau Tool Verification.
Are the skills in dpc/tau official?
None yet. All 15 skills in dpc/tau 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 dpc/tau?
Run npx skills add dpc/tau 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.