Xiaobai Skills

小白 Skills

小白 Skills is a starter-pack and library-curation workflow for users who do not want to spend hours researching agent skills before getting useful coverage.

It has two jobs:

1. Install a practical, high-quality default set that covers common beginner needs.
2. Audit an existing skills library, choose one global default per need, move overlapping alternatives to backup, and keep restore notes for later.

Principles

• Cover common needs first: skill discovery, skill creation, frontend/UI, content/media tools, image workflows, engineering/TDD, diagnosis, planning, review, and handoff.
• Prefer narrow concrete skills globally; keep broad process frameworks as backup unless the user explicitly wants that framework.
• Back up instead of deleting.
• Write an inventory that future agents can follow.
• Restore one alternative at a time when the active choice disappoints.

Default Starter Set

When the user asks for a beginner-friendly one-click setup, install or keep:

• System skills already bundled with Codex:
  • imagegen
  • openai-docs
  • plugin-creator
  • skill-creator
  • skill-installer
• Discovery:
  • find-skills from vercel-labs/skills
• Frontend/UI:
  • frontend-master from mineru98/llm-proxy-skills
• Content, media, conversion, and publishing:
  • baoyu-skills from JimLiu/baoyu-skills
• Engineering workflow:
  • mattpocock-skills from mattpocock/skills
• Skills-library governance:
  • xiaobai-skills

Default backup candidates:

• gstack from garrytan/gstack: rich YC-style product/engineering workflow.
• superpowers from obra/superpowers: strict brainstorming, planning, TDD, debugging, verification, and subagent methodology.

These are useful, but they overlap heavily with Matt Pocock's engineering skills and with each other. Keep them in backup until the user asks for that style or the active engineering set underperforms.

Install Workflow

Use the bundled script when possible:

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powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\scripts\install-xiaobai-skills.ps1

The script should:

1. Create ~\.codex\skills if needed.
2. Install missing default skills from their GitHub sources.
3. Avoid overwriting existing installs unless -Force is passed.
4. Move high-conflict backup packs to ~\.codex\skills-backup\xiaobai-YYYY-MM-DD\ when they are present globally.
5. Write or update SKILLS-GLOBAL-INVENTORY.md.
6. Tell the user to restart Codex.

If the script cannot be used, perform the same steps manually with PowerShell or GitHub CLI. Prefer GitHub release/archive downloads when git is missing.

Curation Workflow

1. Inventory

Scan active roots:

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Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath "$env:USERPROFILE\.codex\skills" -Force
Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath "$env:USERPROFILE\.codex\skills" -Recurse -Filter SKILL.md -File
Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath "$env:USERPROFILE\.agents\skills" -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Also inspect junction/symlink targets directly when recursion does not follow them.

For each SKILL.md, capture:

• name
• path
• description
• source package
• whether it is system, active, backup, deprecated, dangerous, personal, or broad workflow-owning

2. Group By Need

Use this coverage map:

• skill discovery and installation
• skill creation/editing
• frontend/UI implementation
• image generation/editing
• content/media/document conversion
• translation and publishing
• engineering workflow and TDD
• debugging/diagnosis
• review/QA/verification
• planning/PRD/issues
• docs/knowledge capture
• deployment/release
• security audit
• browser automation
• platform-specific/mobile work

3. Choose Global Defaults

Tie-breakers:

1. System or official skills win when sufficient.
2. Narrow skills beat broad packs.
3. Stable skills beat deprecated, in-progress, or personal skills.
4. Safer workflows beat skills that require --yolo, danger, broad shell automation, or unknown external CLIs.
5. Only one broad engineering/process framework should be global by default.
6. Concrete conversion/publishing tools can stay global if their triggers are specific.

Recommended default choice:

• Engineering: Matt Pocock skills.
• Strict methodology fallback: Superpowers.
• Product/ship/team workflow fallback: gstack.
• Frontend: frontend-master.
• Media/content/conversion: Baoyu skills, with dangerous or duplicate subskills backed up.

4. Move Alternatives To Backup

Never delete by default. Move to:

~\.codex\skills-backup\xiaobai-YYYY-MM-DD\

Suggested structure:

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xiaobai-YYYY-MM-DD/
  README.md
  packages/
  disabled-global-entries/
  disabled-subskills/

Before moving:

• Resolve absolute paths.
• Confirm sources are inside known skills roots.
• Confirm destinations are inside the backup root.
• Preserve enough directory structure to restore later.
• Move junctions/symlinks separately from their target packages.

5. Write Inventory

Write:

• active global skills and their roles
• backed-up skills and why
• backup paths
• restore commands or manual restore notes
• restart reminder
• acknowledgements for the upstream skills used

Use SKILLS-GLOBAL-INVENTORY.md in the workspace and copy it into the backup folder as README.md.

6. Restore

When the active choice performs poorly:

1. Identify the need category.
2. Check inventory for backup alternatives.
3. Restore one candidate at a time.
4. Restart Codex.
5. Update the inventory with what changed.

Do not re-enable all backup frameworks at once.

Audit Notes

When acting as the skill creator, optimize for:

• clear trigger description
• concise body
• executable but safe steps
• good restore path
• user-friendly beginner language

When acting as the skill reviewer, challenge:

• overbroad triggers
• hidden destructive behavior
• instructions that fight Codex safety policy
• unclear install paths
• missing backup/restore plan
• missing acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

This skill's recommended starter set was shaped around these upstream projects:

• OpenAI system skills: imagegen, openai-docs, plugin-creator, skill-creator, skill-installer
• vercel-labs/skills for find-skills
• mineru98/llm-proxy-skills for frontend-master
• JimLiu/baoyu-skills
• mattpocock/skills
• garrytan/gstack
• obra/superpowers

Respect each upstream project's license and README before redistribution.

Finish Report

End with:

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Active:
- <skill/package>: <role>

Backed up:
- <skill/package>: <reason>

Inventory:
- <path>

Next:
- Restart Codex.