Open Skills

Name: open-skills
Author: besoeasy

Battle-tested execution playbooks that give any AI agent the exact commands, APIs, and patterns it needs — cutting token usage by 95–98% and making local models as capable as GPT-4.

The Problem

AI agents waste tokens discovering what you already know:

Cloud models (GPT-4, Claude) — 10–30 trial-and-error calls per task → $0.15–$0.25/task
Local models (Llama, Mistral, Qwen) — often fail outright without step-by-step guidance

The Solution

Pre-written, tested skill files your agent reads once and executes correctly the first time.

Without Open Skills                 With Open Skills
─────────────────────────────────   ─────────────────────────────────
Agent searches for API docs         Agent reads SKILL.md
Tries wrong endpoint                Runs the exact working command
Debugs response format              Parses the output correctly
Retries 15–20 times                 Done in 1–3 calls

~50,000 tokens  ~$0.20              ~1,000 tokens  ~$0.004

Quick Start

Step 1 — Clone the skills library (once)

git clone https://github.com/besoeasy/open-skills ~/open-skills

Step 2 — Tell your agent about it

Copy the contents of into your agent's system prompt, memory, or instructions file. This tells the agent to check before every task and auto-sync skills from the repo.

open-skills

Open Skills

The Problem

The Solution

Quick Start

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Any other agent

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Cost Impact