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Using Chrisbanes Skills

by chrisbanes in chrisbanes/skills

A skill your agent uses when routing Kotlin or Jetpack Compose work, or physical Android benchmark evidence that needs a configuration decision, especially when several Kotlin or Compose concerns…

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Install Using Chrisbanes Skills

skills CLI
$ npx skills add chrisbanes/skills --skill using-chrisbanes-skills -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install chrisbanes/skills using-chrisbanes-skills --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/chrisbanes/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/using-chrisbanes-skills .claude/skills/using-chrisbanes-skills && 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
using-chrisbanes-skills
GitHub stars
1.1k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
583 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when routing Kotlin or Jetpack Compose work, or physical Android benchmark evidence that needs a configuration decision, especially when several Kotlin or Compose concerns…

  • Works in 6 steps: Read the task. For Kotlin or Compose… → If one focused skill clearly matches,… → Before loading a Compose skill, point to… → …
  • Jetpack Compose work
  • SKILL.md covers Core principle, Routing procedure, Common routes and Combination boundaries
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Using Chrisbanes Skills is an agent skill from chrisbanes/skills. Use when routing Kotlin or Jetpack Compose work, or physical Android benchmark evidence that needs a configuration decision, especially when several Kotlin or Compose concerns overlap.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Mobile, covering Android development. It works with Kotlin, Android and Jetpack Compose. The repository describes itself as: Skills for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Android development. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Jetpack Compose work
  • Physical Android benchmark evidence that needs a configuration decision
  • Especially when several Kotlin
  • Compose concerns overlap

Example prompts

  • “/using-chrisbanes-skills”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read the task. For Kotlin or Compose work, inspect the source that makes the
  2. If one focused skill clearly matches, load it directly and stop routing.
  3. Before loading a Compose skill, point to a concrete Compose API or composable
  4. Match each observed code signal to the table below.
  5. Add a second skill only when it owns an independent decision in the same
  6. Finish routing when every material concern has one focused owner and those

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 037aab9. 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

Using Chrisbanes Skills loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 52 tokens; SKILL.md has 583 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~52
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 chrisbanes/skills at commit 037aab9, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© chrisbanes). 583 words, ~1,325 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/using-chrisbanes-skills/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
using-chrisbanes-skills
description
Use when routing Kotlin or Jetpack Compose work, or physical Android benchmark evidence that needs a configuration decision, especially when several Kotlin or Compose concerns overlap.

Using chrisbanes skills

Core principle

Route by the decision the code needs, not by the number of APIs mentioned. Load one cluster when its shared procedure owns the concern; add a specialist only when its independent behavior changes the same work.

Routing procedure

  1. Read the task. For Kotlin or Compose work, inspect the source that makes the concern concrete. For an Android benchmark comparison, inspect the supplied reports, configurations, and traces instead.
  2. If one focused skill clearly matches, load it directly and stop routing.
  3. Before loading a Compose skill, point to a concrete Compose API or composable in the inspected source, or to an explicit request to create or design Compose code. A hypothetical UI consumer is not evidence. If neither form of evidence exists, stay in the Kotlin cluster even when the task mentions UI, routes, or navigation.
  4. Match each observed code signal to the table below.
  5. Add a second skill only when it owns an independent decision in the same change; do not load adjacent skills speculatively. For example, a flow delivery defect plus a separate catch-all over a sealed route needs both kotlin-concurrency-and-flow and kotlin-control-flow. Load the latter because the branch mapping needs an explicit decision, including whether a data-bearing subtype's payload is used through a smart cast or deliberately discarded, not merely because a when appears in the file.
  6. Finish routing when every material concern has one focused owner and those skills are loaded before advice or edits.

Common routes

Task signalStart with
Evidenced Compose state, effects, screen ownership, or UI event collectioncompose-state-and-effects
Recomposition, stability, frame-rate reads, back-writing, or @ReadOnlyComposablecompose-performance
Component modifiers, caller placement, slots, or public content shapecompose-component-design
Visibility, value, transition, content-swap, or other motion API choicecompose-animations
Keyboard, TV, D-pad, focus targets, custom traversal, or key eventscompose-focus-navigation
Compose UI, screenshot, semantics, focus/key, or interaction-state testscompose-ui-testing-patterns
Coroutine ownership, raw Thread or Executor work, cancellation, Flow state/events, sharing, or replaykotlin-concurrency-and-flow
Kotlin classification, when, guards, exhaustiveness, smart casts, or null brancheskotlin-control-flow
Kotlin function ownership, domain types, expect/actual, or platform seamskotlin-api-design
Planned Gradle execution or a Gradle-centered warning/failure workflowgradle-run
Comparing physical Android benchmark configurations, reversed rankings, or an Android defaultandroid-benchmark-comparison
Kotlin library release preparation, publication, or readinessrelease-kotlin-library
One ready GitHub issue or in-chat task needs repository-aware planningto-plan
Polling PRs/MRs, review comments, CI failures, or routine follow-upshepherd
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Combination boundaries

  • Add kotlin-concurrency-and-flow to Compose state work only when delivery, replay, sharing, or cancellation is a separate concern. Add state ownership or performance only when animation work changes that concern too.
  • Pair focus navigation with UI testing when the task also needs a test shape. For a focus-aware AnimatedContent swap, load Compose animations as well: rendering each outgoing and incoming branch from its content-lambda target is a separate identity decision from focus timing and the interaction test.
  • Add kotlin-control-flow when a Kotlin concern also has an independent branch decision, such as a catch-all over a sealed result that hides cases or branch payload. Plain route delivery with no separate branching issue does not need it. Do not add Compose without the evidence required in step 3.
  • Encapsulating a Compose snapshot property behind a read-only public accessor remains one state-ownership decision. Do not add kotlin-api-design merely because the accessor is public; add it when the same change also needs a separate function-ownership, domain-type, compatibility, or platform-boundary decision.
  • Load gradle-run only for planned Gradle execution or an existing Gradle workflow, not incidental Kotlin or Compose advice.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/using-chrisbanes-skills of chrisbanes/skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 037aab9

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Questions about Using Chrisbanes Skills

What does Using Chrisbanes Skills do?

A skill your agent uses when routing Kotlin or Jetpack Compose work, or physical Android benchmark evidence that needs a configuration decision, especially when several Kotlin or Compose concerns…. Using Chrisbanes Skills is an agent skill from chrisbanes/skills. Use when routing Kotlin or Jetpack Compose work, or physical Android benchmark evidence that needs a configuration decision, especially when several Kotlin or Compose concerns overlap.

When should I use Using Chrisbanes Skills?

Using Chrisbanes Skills fits situations like: jetpack Compose work; physical Android benchmark evidence that needs a configuration decision; especially when several Kotlin; compose concerns overlap.

How do I install Using Chrisbanes Skills in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Using Chrisbanes Skills in Codex?

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

Can I use Using Chrisbanes Skills 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 chrisbanes/skills --skill using-chrisbanes-skills -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/using-chrisbanes-skills, .gemini/skills/using-chrisbanes-skills, .github/skills/using-chrisbanes-skills and .opencode/skills/using-chrisbanes-skills in your project.

What does Using Chrisbanes Skills need to run?

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

Does Using Chrisbanes Skills 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 Using Chrisbanes Skills 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 Using Chrisbanes Skills use?

Using Chrisbanes Skills is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Using Chrisbanes Skills use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Using Chrisbanes Skills?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Using Chrisbanes Skills: Compose Multiplatform Patterns (monta-app/ocpp-emulator, 180 stars), Android Development (dpconde/claude-android-skill, 336 stars), Claude Android Ninja (Drjacky/claude-android-ninja, 124 stars) and Jetpack Compose (darriousliu/PiPixiv, 263 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Using Chrisbanes Skills?

chrisbanes (a GitHub user) maintains it in chrisbanes/skills, which has 1,093 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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