Bootui Java Development
jdubois/boot-ui
A skill your agent uses when implementing, debugging, refactoring, or testing existing BootUI Java code, including framework-neutral engine logic, Spring MVC and WebFlux adapters, Quarkus runtime…
Perform housekeeping tasks to manage the complexity of the code base.
Install Housekeeper
$ npx skills add axelixlabs/axelix --skill housekeeper -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install axelixlabs/axelix housekeeper --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agent_skills/housekeeper .claude/skills/housekeeper && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "housekeeper" agent skill from https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix/tree/master/.agent_skills/housekeeper into .claude/skills/housekeeper/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "housekeeper", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix/tree/master/.agent_skills/housekeeperType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add axelixlabs/axelix --skill housekeeper -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install axelixlabs/axelix housekeeper --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agent_skills/housekeeper .agents/skills/housekeeper && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "housekeeper" agent skill from https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix/tree/master/.agent_skills/housekeeper into .agents/skills/housekeeper/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "housekeeper", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add axelixlabs/axelix --skill housekeeper -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install axelixlabs/axelix housekeeper --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agent_skills/housekeeper .cursor/skills/housekeeper && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "housekeeper" agent skill from https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix/tree/master/.agent_skills/housekeeper into .cursor/skills/housekeeper/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "housekeeper", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix.git --path .agent_skills/housekeeper--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add axelixlabs/axelix --skill housekeeper -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install axelixlabs/axelix housekeeper --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agent_skills/housekeeper .gemini/skills/housekeeper && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "housekeeper" agent skill from https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix/tree/master/.agent_skills/housekeeper into .gemini/skills/housekeeper/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "housekeeper", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install axelixlabs/axelix housekeeperInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add axelixlabs/axelix --skill housekeeper -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agent_skills/housekeeper .github/skills/housekeeper && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "housekeeper" agent skill from https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix/tree/master/.agent_skills/housekeeper into .github/skills/housekeeper/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "housekeeper", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add axelixlabs/axelix --skill housekeeper -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install axelixlabs/axelix housekeeper --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agent_skills/housekeeper .opencode/skills/housekeeper && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "housekeeper" agent skill from https://github.com/axelixlabs/axelix/tree/master/.agent_skills/housekeeper into .opencode/skills/housekeeper/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "housekeeper", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
housekeeper- GitHub stars
- 148
- Token cost
- ~571 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 323 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 9
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- LGPL-3.0
At a glance
Perform housekeeping tasks to manage the complexity of the code base.
- Works in 6 steps: If unsure - ask. → Do only what has been asked, do not… → The general rule of thumb is the less… → …
- Asked to perform tasks related to maintenance of the repository
- SKILL.md covers When to offer this workflow, Overall Principles and Refactoring Tests Code
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Housekeeper is an agent skill from axelixlabs/axelix. Perform housekeeping tasks to manage the complexity of the code base. Use this skill when asked to perform tasks related to maintenance of the repository, refactoring of any kind, management of the technical debt or writing/revisiting tests.
Its SKILL.md is about 570 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Development, covering Technical debt and Refactoring. It works with Spring Boot and Java. The repository describes itself as: The source code of Axelix - a Delta Force for your Spring Boot ecosystem. The licence is LGPL-3.0.
When your agent uses it
- Asked to perform tasks related to maintenance of the repository
- Refactoring of any kind
- Management of the technical debt
- Writing/revisiting tests
Example prompts
- “/housekeeper”
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- If unsure - ask.
- Do only what has been asked, do not refactor/enahnce/etc anything else unless asked otherwise.
- The general rule of thumb is the less code - the better. Less code generally means less bugs.
- Refactoring must NEVER be massive. It involves large risks of breaking existing code, and it is difficult to review. If you can, then make…
- Duplication of code is generally bad. Extracting common parts is generally a good thing to be doing.
- If you move source files around, please, preserve the author javadoc/tsdoc tags
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit f7d043e. 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
No URLs in SKILL.md.
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
Housekeeper loads about 571 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 63 tokens; SKILL.md has 323 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 axelixlabs/axelix at commit f7d043e, republished under its LGPL-3.0 licence (© axelixlabs). 323 words, ~571 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/housekeeper/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- housekeeper
- description
- Perform housekeeping tasks to manage the complexity of the code base. Use this skill when asked to perform tasks related to maintenance of the repository, refactoring of any kind, management of the technical debt or writing/revisiting tests.
Managing the technical debt
The skill provides the structured workflow for managing the technical debt in the project. Act as an active guide, walking users through the stages:
- Context Gathering
- Refinement & Structure,
- Spec Generation
- Execution
When to offer this workflow
Trigger conditions:
- User mentions the refactoring of some part of the code
- User mentions changes in the structure of the files inside the project
- User mentions any organizational change
Overall Principles
When applying refactoring or making an organizational changes to the code base in overall, follow this strict rules:
- If unsure - ask.
- Do only what has been asked, do not refactor/enahnce/etc anything else unless asked otherwise.
- The general rule of thumb is the less code - the better. Less code generally means less bugs.
- Refactoring must NEVER be massive. It involves large risks of breaking existing code, and it is difficult to review. If you can, then make as small and as atomic changes as possible, one at a time.
- Duplication of code is generally bad. Extracting common parts is generally a good thing to be doing.
- If you move source files around, please, preserve the author javadoc/tsdoc tags
Refactoring Tests Code
When applying refactoring or making an organizational changes to the tests code base, follow this strict rules:
- For any given source file A, the dedicated test file for this class must have the name of the A + "Test" postfix, and this test file must reside inside the same Gradle module as the source file.
- Tests must cover all the cases declared in the public API.
- Ideally, each source file with logic in (not counting DTO/POJO/Java records and similar) should be covered with test cases. But there is a caveat. Sometimes this leads to almost identical Tests and thus the duplication of code, which is bad. So this rule should be handled with care.
- Integration tests should be preferred over the unit tests.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in .agent_skills/housekeeper of axelixlabs/axelix.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit f7d043e
Compare with similar skills
Housekeeper next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Housekeeper this skillaxelixlabs/axelix | 148 | — | ~571 | Automated safety check: Pass | LGPL-3.0 | |
| Bootui Java Developmentjdubois/boot-ui | 315 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Javaericrisco/rsc-harness | 180 | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Java Idiomsirahardianto/awesome-agv | 156 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Systematic Code Refactoringluongnv89/claude-howto | 42k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Code Simplification for ego-litecitrolabs/ego-lite | 17k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Housekeeper
What does Housekeeper do?
Perform housekeeping tasks to manage the complexity of the code base. Housekeeper is an agent skill from axelixlabs/axelix. Perform housekeeping tasks to manage the complexity of the code base.
When should I use Housekeeper?
Housekeeper fits situations like: asked to perform tasks related to maintenance of the repository; refactoring of any kind; management of the technical debt; writing/revisiting tests.
How do I install Housekeeper in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add axelixlabs/axelix --skill housekeeper -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agent_skills/housekeeper in axelixlabs/axelix) into .claude/skills/housekeeper in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Housekeeper in Codex?
Run `npx skills add axelixlabs/axelix --skill housekeeper -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agent_skills/housekeeper in axelixlabs/axelix) into .agents/skills/housekeeper in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Housekeeper 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 axelixlabs/axelix --skill housekeeper -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/housekeeper, .gemini/skills/housekeeper, .github/skills/housekeeper and .opencode/skills/housekeeper in your project.
What does Housekeeper need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Housekeeper is instructions for the agent only.
Does Housekeeper access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Housekeeper 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 Housekeeper use?
Housekeeper is published under the LGPL-3.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Housekeeper use?
About 571 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Housekeeper?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Housekeeper: Bootui Java Development (jdubois/boot-ui, 315 stars), Java (ericrisco/rsc-harness, 180 stars), Java Idioms (irahardianto/awesome-agv, 156 stars) and Systematic Code Refactoring (luongnv89/claude-howto, 42k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Housekeeper?
axelixlabs (a GitHub organization) maintains it in axelixlabs/axelix, which has 148 GitHub stars. The repository holds 9 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.
Source: axelixlabs/axelix on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.