Russ's Skills
Russ McKendrick's collection of Agent Skills — reusable, portable instructions and resources that any skills-compatible AI agent (Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and more) can load on demand.
Each skill lives in its own folder under skills/ and is a plain SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter, following the open agentskills.io specification.
Install
There are three ways to consume this repo. Pick whichever matches your agent.
1. skills.sh CLI (works with most agents)
Install all skills, or just one, via the cross-vendor skills CLI:
# all skills
npx skills add russmckendrick/skills
# a single skill
npx skills add russmckendrick/skills/design-md
2. GitHub CLI (gh skill)
gh skill install russmckendrick/skills/design-md
gh skill list
gh skill writes provenance (repo, ref, tree SHA) into the installed SKILL.md frontmatter so the install can be traced and updated later.
3. Claude Code plugin marketplace
Inside a Claude Code session:
/plugin marketplace add russmckendrick/skills
/plugin install russ-skills@russ-skills
Then ask Claude to run any skill from the table below.
Skills
| Skill | Description |
|---|
design-md | Authors and updates DESIGN.md files — Google Labs' open format for describing a design system (YAML tokens + markdown rationale) to AI coding agents. Generates a new DESIGN.md from a brand brief, or updates an existing one without breaking token references or section order. |
More on the way.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md. The short version: copy template/ into skills/<your-skill-name>/, edit SKILL.md, validate locally with npx skills-ref validate skills/<your-skill-name>, open a PR.
Licence
MIT © 2026 Russ McKendrick.
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