skills

Skills for designers, builders & engineers. Install them into Claude Code as a plugin, or into any agent with the skills CLI.

What's inside

• smooth-shadows — generate layered, smooth box-shadow CSS (the shadows.brumm.af / Tobias Ahlin technique) for soft, realistic elevation. Outputs ready-to-paste CSS or Tailwind values.
• ultracode — run complex work through a Codex-friendly dynamic-workflow pattern: phase graph, approval card, visible progress table, bounded subagents when available, durable run ledger, result reduction, and verification before handoff. Ships as a separate opt-in plugin (extras/) since Claude Code has native ultracode workflows; still installs everywhere via the skills CLI.
• autopilot-interview — interview a plan on autopilot: auto-decide low-risk details, escalate only the high-stakes, hard-to-reverse choices to you, and keep a scratch decision log for long sessions.
• architect-loop — act as the architect (and creative director for UI work) over any fast builder — GPT-5.5 Codex, Cursor Composer, Grok, or whatever comes next: read docs/HANDOFF.md, rule on the builder's disagreements, judge raw results against frozen gates, and write the next one-PR slice spec. The repo is the memory; the human owns the gate calls.
• youtube-transcript — fetch YouTube captions with yt-dlp, save cached transcript artifacts, and inspect previews/search results/excerpts without loading full transcripts into agent context.
• youtube-channel-search — research topics inside a known YouTube channel with yt-dlp catalogs, metadata ranking, transcript hydration, and local transcript ranking.
• tiktok-transcript — fetch TikTok captions with yt-dlp for a single video or a whole channel, save cached transcript artifacts, and fall back to local mlx-whisper transcription (Apple Silicon) when a video has no native captions.
• go-cli-builder — scaffold and iterate on small, well-tested local Go CLIs, with a quality loop that leans on GPT-5.5 (via Codex) for the mechanical build work.
• last30days-local — research what people said about a topic in the last 30 days across X, Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok, Instagram, Bluesky, GitHub, Pinterest, Polymarket, and the web — no API keys, using the local logged-in browser (Aside) plus yt-dlp, gh, and keyless HTTP. Inspired by mvanhorn/last30days-skill.
• claude-codex — Claude/Fable-only bridge for sending bounded implementation and review work to GPT-5.5 through the Codex CLI. Separate opt-in plugin (claude-codex/); not part of dedene-skills.

Install

As a Claude Code plugin

/plugin marketplace add dedene/skills
/plugin install dedene-skills@dedene

The skills are then available as /dedene-skills:smooth-shadows, /dedene-skills:autopilot-interview, /dedene-skills:architect-loop, /dedene-skills:youtube-transcript, /dedene-skills:youtube-channel-search, and /dedene-skills:tiktok-transcript.

The ultracode skill is intentionally not part of dedene-skills — Claude Code ships native ultracode workflows. For other hosts, it is available as a separate plugin:

/plugin install ultracode@dedene

The Codex delegation/review bridge is intentionally Claude/Fable-only for now:

/plugin install claude-codex@dedene

With the skills CLI

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other agents via vercel-labs/skills:

npx skills add dedene/skills

To grab just one skill:

npx skills add dedene/skills --skill smooth-shadows
npx skills add dedene/skills --skill ultracode
npx skills add dedene/skills --skill autopilot-interview
npx skills add dedene/skills --skill architect-loop
npx skills add dedene/skills --skill youtube-transcript
npx skills add dedene/skills --skill youtube-channel-search
npx skills add dedene/skills --skill tiktok-transcript

License

MIT — see LICENSE.