Agent skill

AI Firstify

by techwolf-ai in techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit

Analyze, re-engineer, or bootstrap projects to align with AI-first design principles.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install AI Firstify

skills CLI
$ npx skills add techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit --skill ai-firstify -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit ai-firstify --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/techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/ai-firstify/skills/ai-firstify .claude/skills/ai-firstify && 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
ai-firstify
GitHub stars
132
Token cost
~646 tokens
SKILL.md length
245 words
Files
11 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
29
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Analyze, re-engineer, or bootstrap projects to align with AI-first design principles.

  • Asked to review
  • SKILL.md covers Trigger, Mode 1: Audit (Read-Only…, Mode 2: Re-Engineer (Active… and Mode 3: Bootstrap (New Project…, plus 2 more sections
  • Runs Shell scripts from its folder
  • Start a new project

What it does

AI Firstify is an agent skill from techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit. Analyze, re-engineer, or bootstrap projects to align with AI-first design principles. Use when asked to review, audit, improve, 'ai-firstify', or start a new project. Performs deep analysis across 7 dimensions, actively restructures existing projects, or guides new project setup through discovery questions. Based on the 9 design principles and 7 design patterns from the TechWolf AI-First Bootcamp.

Its SKILL.md is about 650 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 12 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/anti-patterns.md`, `references/assessment-rubric.md` and `references/mode-audit.md`).

It sits in Development, covering Design patterns, Requirements gathering and Project scaffolding. The repository describes itself as: Open-source Claude Code skills and Codex skills for AI-first work. Audit, re-engineer, and bootstrap projects with AI-first design principles. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to review
  • Start a new project

Example prompts

  • “ai-firstify”
  • “/ai-firstify”

Requirements

  • A Bash shell

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2ee7841. 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

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Shell), which the agent can run.

    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

AI Firstify loads about 646 tokens when it runs, and up to ~15k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 103 tokens; SKILL.md has 245 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~103
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~646
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~15k

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit at commit 2ee7841, republished under its MIT licence (© techwolf-ai). 245 words, ~646 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ai-firstify/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 10 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
ai-firstify
description
Analyze, re-engineer, or bootstrap projects to align with AI-first design principles. Use when asked to review, audit, improve, 'ai-firstify', or start a new project. Performs deep analysis across 7 dimensions, actively restructures existing projects, or guides new project setup through discovery questions. Based on the 9 design principles and 7 design patterns from the TechWolf AI-First Bootcamp.

AI-Firstify

Analyze and re-engineer projects to align with AI-first design principles.

Trigger

Use this skill when asked to:

  • Audit mode (read-only): "review", "audit", "analyze", "check", "assess"
  • Re-Engineer mode (active changes): "ai-firstify", "fix", "improve", "re-engineer", "transform"
  • Bootstrap mode (new project): "start", "new project", "bootstrap", "set up", "build from scratch"

Mode 1: Audit (Read-Only Analysis)

Perform a comprehensive read-only analysis across 7 dimensions. Output a scored report with recommendations. Do NOT modify any files.

Read references/mode-audit.md for the full audit procedure and dimension checklist.

Mode 2: Re-Engineer (Active Transformation)

First, perform the full audit (Mode 1). Then actively fix issues in 7 phases: foundation, de-agentification, skill extraction, complexity reduction, context hygiene, safety hardening, workflow optimization.

Read references/mode-reengineer.md for the full re-engineering procedure.

Mode 3: Bootstrap (New Project Setup)

Guide the user through setting up a new AI-first project from scratch. Interactive: ask discovery questions, recommend architecture, scaffold, and test.

Read references/mode-bootstrap.md for the full bootstrap procedure.

Reference Files

Domain knowledge (load on demand per dimension):

  • references/principles.md: All 9 AI-first design principles in depth
  • references/patterns.md: All 7 design patterns with implementation guidance
  • references/anti-patterns.md: Common mistakes with detection patterns and fixes
  • references/skill-architecture.md: How to structure skills, sub-agents, and workflows
  • references/project-structure.md: Ideal project layouts, CLAUDE.md templates, .gitignore
  • references/assessment-rubric.md: Scoring criteria and report template

Load the relevant reference file for the dimension you are currently analyzing. Do not load all references at once. Use progressive disclosure.

Tools

  • scripts/validate-report.sh: Validates that a generated assessment report has all required sections, dimensions, and scores

© techwolf-ai, 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 10 other files (scripts, references) in plugins/ai-firstify/skills/ai-firstify of techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/anti-patterns.md
  • references/assessment-rubric.md
  • references/mode-audit.md
  • references/mode-bootstrap.md
  • references/mode-reengineer.md
  • references/patterns.md
  • references/principles.md
  • references/project-structure.md
  • references/skill-architecture.md
  • scripts/validate-report.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2ee7841

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Questions about AI Firstify

What does AI Firstify do?

Analyze, re-engineer, or bootstrap projects to align with AI-first design principles. AI Firstify is an agent skill from techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit. Analyze, re-engineer, or bootstrap projects to align with AI-first design principles.

When should I use AI Firstify?

AI Firstify fits situations like: asked to review; start a new project.

How do I install AI Firstify in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit --skill ai-firstify -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/ai-firstify/skills/ai-firstify in techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit) into .claude/skills/ai-firstify in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install AI Firstify in Codex?

Run `npx skills add techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit --skill ai-firstify -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/ai-firstify/skills/ai-firstify in techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit) into .agents/skills/ai-firstify in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use AI Firstify 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 techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit --skill ai-firstify -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ai-firstify, .gemini/skills/ai-firstify, .github/skills/ai-firstify and .opencode/skills/ai-firstify in your project.

What does AI Firstify need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, AI Firstify needs a shell for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: A Bash shell.

Does AI Firstify 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 AI Firstify 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does AI Firstify use?

AI Firstify 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 AI Firstify use?

About 646 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. Its references folder adds about 14k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to AI Firstify?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with AI Firstify: Scaffold (codewithmukesh/dotnet-claude-kit, 751 stars), Kmp Starter (DevAtrii/Kmp-Starter-Template, 167 stars), Senior Fullstack (davila7/claude-code-templates, 32k stars) and Kmp Starter Architecture (DevAtrii/Kmp-Starter-Template, 167 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains AI Firstify?

techwolf-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit, which has 132 GitHub stars. The repository holds 29 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 29, 2026.

Source: techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.