pragmatic-programmer
✓Software craftsmanship principles from The Pragmatic Programmer. Use this skill when discussing best practices, debugging strategies, career development, or pragmatic approaches to software development. Auto-activates for DRY violations, debugging sessions, and development workflow improvements.
Installation
SKILL.md
A comprehensive reference for pragmatic software development principles based on "The Pragmatic Programmer" by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt. This skill provides timeless advice for becoming a better developer.
| DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself | Every piece of knowledge has a single representation | | Orthogonality | Keep things independent and decoupled | | Reversibility | Make decisions reversible; avoid lock-in | | Tracer Bullets | Get feedback fast with end-to-end skeleton | | Prototypes | Learn before committing; throw away prototypes |
| Domain Languages | Program close to the problem domain | | Estimating | Learn to give accurate estimates |
Software craftsmanship principles from The Pragmatic Programmer. Use this skill when discussing best practices, debugging strategies, career development, or pragmatic approaches to software development. Auto-activates for DRY violations, debugging sessions, and development workflow improvements. Source: grndlvl/software-patterns.
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Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/grndlvl/software-patterns --skill pragmatic-programmer- Category
- >_Productivity
- Verified
- ✓
- First Seen
- 2026-02-15
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is pragmatic-programmer?
Software craftsmanship principles from The Pragmatic Programmer. Use this skill when discussing best practices, debugging strategies, career development, or pragmatic approaches to software development. Auto-activates for DRY violations, debugging sessions, and development workflow improvements. Source: grndlvl/software-patterns.
How do I install pragmatic-programmer?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/grndlvl/software-patterns --skill pragmatic-programmer Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/grndlvl/software-patterns
Details
- Category
- >_Productivity
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-15