Kevin Veen-Birkenbach
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autotune, autoskill and confidence each carried their own idea of what an improvement is, and autotune's two efficiency rules were the same sentence twice. They now route to one skill that names three axes to move at once — fewer tokens, less time, higher quality — and the rules that decide when a proposal counts: at least one axis better, none damaged, quality never the currency, observed friction instead of a guessed percentage. Applying its own rule, autotune gets shorter rather than longer. The test holds the coupling, so a later rewrite cannot silently drop a route. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
skills 🧠
The agent skill collection of Kevin Veen-Birkenbach.
Every skill is pinned in skills-lock.json for reproducible installs.
First-party skills live under skills/ and are layered on top of the locked ones at install time.
Compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Cline, and other agents.
Requirements 📦
- Node.js (provides
npx skills). jq(only required formake update).
Installation 🚀
Install the skills globally into your home (~/.agents/skills and ~/.claude/skills):
make install
Copy the skills into a specific project (<repo>/.agents/skills and <repo>/.claude/skills):
make project TARGET=/path/to/repo
Both commands also patch the target's .claude/settings.json: the caveman and ponytail plugins are enabled so their modes auto-activate on session start, and two reminder hooks are registered — autotune points you at /autotune at most once an hour, dream points you at /dream at most once every twelve hours per repository (stamped in that repository's git dir). Existing settings are preserved.
Restart your agent afterwards so it loads the new skills.
Maintenance 🔧
Refresh every skill to its latest version and rewrite skills-lock.json:
make update
Validate skills-lock.json and shellcheck the scripts (also run by CI on every push and after every update):
make test
Related Tools 🧰
This collection is part of a wider toolset for managing IT and infrastructure:
- alias — shell aliases for common commands.
- package-manager —
pkgmgr, a single command to install and manage these repositories. - infinito-nexus — automation platform for self-hosted infrastructure.
License 📜
MIT License, Copyright (c) 2026 Kevin Veen-Birkenbach.
Author 👤
Kevin Veen-Birkenbach kevin@veen.world
Thanks 🙏
Thanks to the #ai:infinito.nexus community, and especially to Paulinhx for the inspiration.
Donation ❤️
If these tools help you, consider supporting their development: