Agent skill

Genie Hacks

by automagik-dev in automagik-dev/genie

Browse, search, and contribute community hacks — real-world patterns for provider switching, teams, skills, hooks, cost optimization, and more.

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Genie Hacks

skills CLI
$ npx skills add automagik-dev/genie --skill genie-hacks -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install automagik-dev/genie genie-hacks --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automagik-dev/genie.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/genie-hacks .claude/skills/genie-hacks && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
genie-hacks
GitHub stars
346
Token cost
~689 tokens
SKILL.md length
349 words
Files
4 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Browse, search, and contribute community hacks — real-world patterns for provider switching, teams, skills, hooks, cost optimization, and more.

  • Works in 4 steps: Gather title, problem, solution with… → Preview the hack in the catalog template… → Submit only after the confirmed preview,… → …
  • Agent Workflows work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Data, Commands, Contribute and Rules
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Genie Hacks is an agent skill from automagik-dev/genie. Browse, search, and contribute community hacks — real-world patterns for provider switching, teams, skills, hooks, cost optimization, and more.

Its SKILL.md is about 690 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `references/catalog.md` and `references/contributing.md`).

It sits in Agent Workflows. It works with GitHub. The repository describes itself as: Wishes in, PRs out. CLI agent that interviews you, plans the work, dispatches parallel agents in isolated worktrees, and reviews code before you see it. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Agent Workflows work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/genie-hacks”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Gather title, problem, solution with code, category (one from the catalog's table), benefit and when-to-use, one question at a time.
  2. Preview the hack in the catalog template and confirm: yes submits, edit re-prompts that field, cancel aborts.
  3. Submit only after the confirmed preview, following references/contributing.md: preflight GitHub access, fork or use the GitHub connector…
  4. Report the PR URL and what happens next.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b6be3e7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • docs.automagik.dev
    • discord.gg

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Genie Hacks loads about 689 tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 39 tokens; SKILL.md has 349 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~39
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~689
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~5.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from automagik-dev/genie at commit b6be3e7, republished under its MIT licence (© automagik-dev). 349 words, ~689 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/genie-hacks/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
genie-hacks
description
Browse, search, and contribute community hacks — real-world patterns for provider switching, teams, skills, hooks, cost optimization, and more.
category
integration
mutates
external

Genie Hacks

Browse real-world Genie patterns contributed by the community: search by problem, explore by category, or contribute your own. No subcommand means list.

Data

  • Registry: read references/catalog.md (relative to this skill directory) before answering any list, search, show or help request. It holds every hack (problem, solution, code, benefit, when to use) and the category table. Never invent a hack that is not in it.
  • Contribute mechanics: read references/contributing.md when running contribute; it has the exact fork, branch and PR commands and the offline fallback.
  • Published page: https://docs.automagik.dev/genie/hacks (source genie/hacks.mdx in automagik-dev/docs).

Commands

CommandBehavior
listTable of all hacks (ID, title, category), then the count and a contribute nudge.
search <keyword>Case-insensitive match over title, problem, solution and code; per match show ID, title, category and a problem snippet. No matches: suggest broader terms or list.
show <hack-id>Full entry. Unknown ID: suggest the closest IDs.
help <problem>The top three relevant hacks with a one-line why and a quick tip each; prefer a loose match to "no matches".
contributeGuided submission that opens a PR to automagik-dev/docs.

Keep output concise: tables for list, the full format only for show.

Contribute

  1. Gather title, problem, solution with code, category (one from the catalog's table), benefit and when-to-use, one question at a time.
  2. Preview the hack in the catalog template and confirm: yes submits, edit re-prompts that field, cancel aborts.
  3. Submit only after the confirmed preview, following references/contributing.md: preflight GitHub access, fork or use the GitHub connector, branch hack/<slug>, append under the category heading in genie/hacks.mdx, commit hack: <title>, open the PR against dev, never main.
  4. Report the PR URL and what happens next.

If gh is missing or unauthenticated, or any GitHub step fails, save the formatted hack to ~/.genie/cache/pending-hacks/<hack-id>.md and relay the manual steps; never lose the write-up.

Rules

  • Hack IDs are lowercase kebab-case and unique; check existing IDs first.
  • Hacks are realistic and tested, never aspirational.
  • Catalog code uses the live v5 CLI (genie --help is the source of truth); v4-era entries carry a note with the live replacement.
  • Community discussion: https://discord.gg/automagik

© automagik-dev, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/genie-hacks of automagik-dev/genie.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/catalog.md
  • references/contributing.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b6be3e7

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Questions about Genie Hacks

What does Genie Hacks do?

Browse, search, and contribute community hacks — real-world patterns for provider switching, teams, skills, hooks, cost optimization, and more. Genie Hacks is an agent skill from automagik-dev/genie. Browse, search, and contribute community hacks — real-world patterns for provider switching, teams, skills, hooks, cost optimization, and more.

When should I use Genie Hacks?

Genie Hacks fits situations like: agent Workflows work in your project.

How do I install Genie Hacks in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add automagik-dev/genie --skill genie-hacks -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/genie-hacks in automagik-dev/genie) into .claude/skills/genie-hacks in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Genie Hacks in Codex?

Run `npx skills add automagik-dev/genie --skill genie-hacks -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/genie-hacks in automagik-dev/genie) into .agents/skills/genie-hacks in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Genie Hacks in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add automagik-dev/genie --skill genie-hacks -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/genie-hacks, .gemini/skills/genie-hacks, .github/skills/genie-hacks and .opencode/skills/genie-hacks in your project.

What does Genie Hacks need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Genie Hacks is instructions for the agent only.

Does Genie Hacks access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: docs.automagik.dev and discord.gg. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Genie Hacks safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Genie Hacks use?

Genie Hacks is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Genie Hacks use?

About 689 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 4.4k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Genie Hacks?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Genie Hacks: Diagnosing Superpowers Sessions (obra/superpowers, 297k stars), Auto Skill Builder (tradecatlabs/vibe-coding-cn, 17k stars), Agentic Workflow Designer (dotnet/Open-XML-SDK, 4.6k stars) and Skill Seekers Builder (yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers, 15k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Genie Hacks?

automagik-dev (a GitHub organization) maintains it in automagik-dev/genie, which has 346 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: automagik-dev/genie on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.