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Addy Osmani's agent skills guide improves AI coding assistants with stop rules

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Addy Osmani's "agent-skills" repository on GitHub, which has garnered over 114,000 stars, introduces specific stop rules to improve the interaction between users and AI coding assistants like Claude Code. These rules aim to prevent common timing and understanding errors by instructing the agent when to pause, seek clarification, or confirm user intent before proceeding with code generation. Skills such as "using-agent-skills" handle unclear requirements by listing assumptions and waiting for user correction, while "interview-me" stops asking questions once it can predict the user's reaction to its next three inquiries, ensuring explicit confirmation before generating a statement of intent. AI

IMPACT Enhances the usability and reliability of AI coding assistants by introducing structured interaction protocols.

RANK_REASON The article discusses specific techniques and rules for improving existing AI coding assistants, rather than a new release from a frontier lab.

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Addy Osmani's agent skills guide improves AI coding assistants with stop rules

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Skillselion ·

    Where Addy Osmani's Agent Skills Make Claude Code Stop and Wait for You

    <p><em>Last updated: November 9, 2026</em></p> <p><strong>Short answer:</strong> Addy Osmani's agent-skills repo is full of stop rules. interview-me stops asking when it can predict your reaction to its next three questions. spec-driven-development ends its turn after the spec. d…

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