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Generalize a concrete fix, example, correction, or recurring failure into evidence-backed broader solutions and durable prevention.
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Install Generalize
$ npx skills add swyxio/skills --skill generalize -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install swyxio/skills generalize --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/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/generalize .claude/skills/generalize && 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 "generalize" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/generalize into .claude/skills/generalize/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "generalize", 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/swyxio/skills/tree/main/generalizeType 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 swyxio/skills --skill generalize -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install swyxio/skills generalize --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/generalize .agents/skills/generalize && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "generalize" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/generalize into .agents/skills/generalize/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "generalize", 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 swyxio/skills --skill generalize -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install swyxio/skills generalize --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/generalize .cursor/skills/generalize && 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 "generalize" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/generalize into .cursor/skills/generalize/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "generalize", 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/swyxio/skills.git --path generalize--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 swyxio/skills --skill generalize -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install swyxio/skills generalize --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/generalize .gemini/skills/generalize && 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 "generalize" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/generalize into .gemini/skills/generalize/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "generalize", 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 swyxio/skills generalizeInstalls 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 swyxio/skills --skill generalize -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/generalize .github/skills/generalize && 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 "generalize" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/generalize into .github/skills/generalize/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "generalize", 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 swyxio/skills --skill generalize -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install swyxio/skills generalize --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/generalize .opencode/skills/generalize && 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 "generalize" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/generalize into .opencode/skills/generalize/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "generalize", 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
generalize- GitHub stars
- 175
- Token cost
- ~639 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 303 words
- Files
- 2
- Skills in repo
- 89
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Generalize a concrete fix, example, correction, or recurring failure into evidence-backed broader solutions and durable prevention.
- Works in 6 steps: Establish the user's actual goal,… → Inspect the current conversation,… → Find sibling cases and counterexamples.… → …
- Explicitly asked to broaden
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Extract transferable lessons
What it does
Generalize is an agent skill from swyxio/skills. Generalize a concrete fix, example, correction, or recurring failure into evidence-backed broader solutions and durable prevention. Use when explicitly asked to broaden, systematize, or extract transferable lessons.
Its SKILL.md is about 640 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).
The repository describes itself as: Agent skills for Claude Code and other AI agents. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Explicitly asked to broaden
- Extract transferable lessons
Example prompts
- “/generalize”
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Establish the user's actual goal, authorized scope, observed examples, and underlying failure mechanism.
- Inspect the current conversation, established workflow, and relevant code, data, tests, or logs. Reuse existing parsers, contracts, and…
- Find sibling cases and counterexamples. Generalize only the verified cause; do not turn a local defect into new policy, requirements, or…
- Offer only useful levels of intervention
- Compare expected impact, confidence, effort, risk, reversibility, and dependencies. Recommend based on the user's overall intent; favor…
- Distinguish ambitious recommendations from authorized implementation. When implementation is authorized, complete the smallest shared…
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 038ef34. 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
Generalize loads about 639 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 303 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 swyxio/skills at commit 038ef34, republished under its MIT licence (© swyxio). 303 words, ~639 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/generalize/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- generalize
- description
- Generalize a concrete fix, example, correction, or recurring failure into evidence-backed broader solutions and durable prevention. Use when explicitly asked to broaden, systematize, or extract transferable lessons.
Generalize
Surface meaningful improvements at multiple levels and recommend the option that best fits the user's intent and impact-versus-effort tradeoff.
- Establish the user's actual goal, authorized scope, observed examples, and underlying failure mechanism.
- Inspect the current conversation, established workflow, and relevant code, data, tests, or logs. Reuse existing parsers, contracts, and resume mechanisms before proposing another path. Search available agent session history only when past decisions or recurrence could change the conclusion; target exact repository names, errors, or phrases, bound the search, and avoid secrets or unrelated private content.
- Find sibling cases and counterexamples. Generalize only the verified cause; do not turn a local defect into new policy, requirements, or architecture without supporting evidence. Distinguish a one-off symptom, repeated pattern, missing invariant, unreliable input, and architectural constraint; quantify affected cases when practical.
- Offer only useful levels of intervention:
- Fix the immediate instance.
- Repair other cases sharing the same verified cause.
- Correct the shared data, contract, abstraction, or workflow.
- Add a test, guardrail, monitoring, or safe automation.
- Capture a reusable process, skill, or architectural improvement.
- Compare expected impact, confidence, effort, risk, reversibility, and dependencies. Recommend based on the user's overall intent; favor simplicity when outcomes are comparable, but surface higher-impact options that become worthwhile with broader scope or authorization. Mark speculation and unresolved cases explicitly.
- Distinguish ambitious recommendations from authorized implementation. When implementation is authorized, complete the smallest shared repair rather than merely offering options. Verify the original failure, a representative sibling case, and a counterexample or regression; report measured outcomes and stop when the shared fix is sufficiently verified. Do not turn every repair into infrastructure or another skill.
Mention broader scope only when a concrete unresolved risk warrants it. Do not assume permission to expand scope, inspect broad transcript archives, introduce infrastructure, or create permanent artifacts.
© swyxio, 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 1 other file in generalize of swyxio/skills.
- SKILL.md
- agents/openai.yaml
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 038ef34
Compare with similar skills
Generalize 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generalize this skillswyxio/skills | 175 | — | ~639 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| CorrectionNxcoreAI/EverRoom | 3k | — | ~290 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Correctcursor/plugins | 10k | 3 repos | ~612 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Dart Log Failure Parserflutter/flutter | 179k | — | ~489 | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | |
| Investigating CI FailuresPostHog/posthog | 40k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Exploring AI FailuresPostHog/posthog | 40k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Warn | Custom licence |
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Questions about Generalize
What does Generalize do?
Generalize a concrete fix, example, correction, or recurring failure into evidence-backed broader solutions and durable prevention. Generalize is an agent skill from swyxio/skills. Generalize a concrete fix, example, correction, or recurring failure into evidence-backed broader solutions and durable prevention.
When should I use Generalize?
Generalize fits situations like: explicitly asked to broaden; extract transferable lessons.
How do I install Generalize in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add swyxio/skills --skill generalize -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (generalize in swyxio/skills) into .claude/skills/generalize in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Generalize in Codex?
Run `npx skills add swyxio/skills --skill generalize -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (generalize in swyxio/skills) into .agents/skills/generalize in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Generalize 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 swyxio/skills --skill generalize -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/generalize, .gemini/skills/generalize, .github/skills/generalize and .opencode/skills/generalize in your project.
What does Generalize need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Generalize is instructions for the agent only.
Does Generalize 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 Generalize 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 Generalize use?
Generalize 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 Generalize use?
About 639 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.6k 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 Generalize?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Generalize: Correction (NxcoreAI/EverRoom, 3k stars), Correct (cursor/plugins, 10k stars), Dart Log Failure Parser (flutter/flutter, 179k stars) and Investigating CI Failures (PostHog/posthog, 40k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Generalize?
swyxio (a GitHub user) maintains it in swyxio/skills, which has 175 GitHub stars. The repository holds 89 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.
Source: swyxio/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.