Agent skill

Chess Opening Coach

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Build a small, coherent opening repertoire that fits your style and level — the few lines actually worth learning, plus the plans and traps behind them.

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Install Chess Opening Coach

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill chess-opening-coach -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills chess-opening-coach --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/chess-opening-coach .claude/skills/chess-opening-coach && 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
chess-opening-coach
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~981 tokens
SKILL.md length
495 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Build a small, coherent opening repertoire that fits your style and level — the few lines actually worth learning, plus the plans and traps behind them.

  • Works in 5 steps: Fit the style. Recommend openings that… → Teach plans over moves. For each… → Keep it small. A few reliable lines beat… → …
  • Asked what chess opening should I learn
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Small, Understood,… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Chess Opening Coach is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Build a small, coherent opening repertoire that fits your style and level — the few lines actually worth learning, plus the plans and traps behind them. Use when asked what chess opening should I learn, build me a repertoire, help with my openings, or what to play against [opening]. Produces a compact repertoire for White and Black keyed to your rating and style, the main ideas and typical plans (not just moves to memorize), the common traps to know from both sides, and what to study next — kept small enough to…

Its SKILL.md is about 980 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked what chess opening should I learn
  • Build me a repertoire
  • Help with my openings
  • What to play against [opening]

Example prompts

  • “/chess-opening-coach”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Fit the style. Recommend openings that suit how the player likes games to go — an aggressive player will hate a dry, maneuvering system.
  2. Teach plans over moves. For each opening, give the middlegame plan and typical pawn breaks so they know why, not just what.
  3. Keep it small. A few reliable lines beat a sprawling repertoire — depth of understanding over breadth of memorization.
  4. Cover the real replies. Address the responses they'll actually meet at their level, not obscure grandmaster theory.
  5. Know the traps. Flag the common early tricks (both to avoid and to spring) that decide games at club level.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

Chess Opening Coach loads about 981 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 138 tokens; SKILL.md has 495 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~138
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~981

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 495 words, ~981 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/chess-opening-coach/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
chess-opening-coach
description
Build a small, coherent opening repertoire that fits your style and level — the few lines actually worth learning, plus the plans and traps behind them. Use when asked what chess opening should I learn, build me a repertoire, help with my openings, or what to play against [opening]. Produces a compact repertoire for White and Black keyed to your rating and style, the main ideas and typical plans (not just moves to memorize), the common traps to know from both sides, and what to study next — kept small enough to actually learn.

Chess Opening Coach

Most improving players lose games not in the opening but by drowning in opening theory they don't understand. This builds a small repertoire — a handful of coherent lines that suit how you like to play — and teaches the ideas behind them, so you reach playable middlegames you understand instead of memorizing twenty moves you'll forget.

What This Skill Produces

  • A compact repertoire — one main choice for White, and answers for Black vs 1.e4 and 1.d4, sized to your level
  • The ideas, not just moves — the plan behind each opening: pawn breaks, piece placement, where your pieces belong
  • Traps both ways — the common tricks to avoid falling for and the ones you can use
  • Move-order essentials — the few critical points where accuracy matters, and where you can play on understanding
  • A study path — what to learn first and what to add later, so it stays small

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • Rating/level — rough strength (beginner, club, intermediate) — sets how much theory is worth it
  • Style — attacking/tactical, solid/positional, or "just something reliable"
  • Colors & gaps — do you want White, Black, or both; anything you already play
  • Time — how much you'll realistically study
  • Trouble spots — openings you keep losing against

Framework: Small, Understood, Coherent

  1. Fit the style. Recommend openings that suit how the player likes games to go — an aggressive player will hate a dry, maneuvering system.
  2. Teach plans over moves. For each opening, give the middlegame plan and typical pawn breaks so they know why, not just what.
  3. Keep it small. A few reliable lines beat a sprawling repertoire — depth of understanding over breadth of memorization.
  4. Cover the real replies. Address the responses they'll actually meet at their level, not obscure grandmaster theory.
  5. Know the traps. Flag the common early tricks (both to avoid and to spring) that decide games at club level.
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Output Format

Repertoire: [level] · style: [x] · [colors]

As White: [opening] — plan: [pawn breaks / piece setup]. Key point: [where accuracy matters]. As Black vs 1.e4: [defense] — main idea: […]. As Black vs 1.d4: [defense] — main idea: […].

Traps to know: [avoid: … / use: …]. Study first → later: [the 2–3 lines to learn now] → [what to add once comfortable].

Quality Checks

  • Repertoire size matches the player's level (small for beginners)
  • Each opening comes with plans/ideas, not just move lists
  • Recommendations fit the stated style
  • Covers the replies they'll actually face
  • Includes common traps from both sides and a study order

Anti-Patterns

  • A 20-move memorization dump the player won't retain or understand.
  • Style mismatch — a sharp gambit for someone who wants solid.
  • Only moves, no plans — leaving them lost once theory ends.
  • Obscure theory irrelevant at their level.
  • Too many openings to ever learn properly.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "What opening should I learn as a beginner who likes attacking?"
  • "Build me a simple repertoire for White and Black."
  • "I keep losing against 1.e4 — what should I play?"
  • "Give me a solid, low-theory opening system."
  • "Explain the plan behind the London System."

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/chess-opening-coach of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Chess Opening Coach

What does Chess Opening Coach do?

Build a small, coherent opening repertoire that fits your style and level — the few lines actually worth learning, plus the plans and traps behind them. Chess Opening Coach is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Build a small, coherent opening repertoire that fits your style and level — the few lines actually worth learning, plus the plans and traps behind them.

When should I use Chess Opening Coach?

Chess Opening Coach fits situations like: asked what chess opening should I learn; build me a repertoire; help with my openings; what to play against [opening].

How do I install Chess Opening Coach in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill chess-opening-coach -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/chess-opening-coach in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/chess-opening-coach in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Chess Opening Coach in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill chess-opening-coach -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/chess-opening-coach in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/chess-opening-coach in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Chess Opening Coach 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill chess-opening-coach -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/chess-opening-coach, .gemini/skills/chess-opening-coach, .github/skills/chess-opening-coach and .opencode/skills/chess-opening-coach in your project.

What does Chess Opening Coach need to run?

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

Does Chess Opening Coach 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 Chess Opening Coach 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 Chess Opening Coach use?

Chess Opening Coach 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 Chess Opening Coach use?

About 981 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Chess Opening Coach?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.