nexus-skills

Official skill collection for Nexus. Automatically installed at first boot — skills are available without any manual setup.

Skills

Skill	Description
skill-creator	Create, test, and iteratively improve Nexus skills with evaluations
brainstorming	Design-before-code exploration (optional visual companion — requires Node.js)
writing-plans	Write comprehensive implementation plans before touching code
subagent-driven-development	Execute plans using fresh subagents per task with spec + quality review gates
systematic-debugging	Root-cause-first debugging protocol — never guess, always investigate
verification-before-completion	Evidence-before-claims gate: run verification before any success claim
requesting-code-review	Dispatch a code reviewer subagent with precisely crafted context
test-driven-development	Red-Green-Refactor TDD cycle with anti-patterns reference
code-review	Comprehensive code review for 18+ languages and frameworks
frontend-design	Production-grade web UI with intentional aesthetic direction (HTML/CSS/React/Vue)
pdf	Read, extract, merge, split, create, fill forms, OCR — full PDF toolkit (requires Python)
docx	Create and edit Word documents — styles, tables, images, TOC (requires Python)
pptx	Build and edit slide decks — layouts, charts, speaker notes (requires Python)
xlsx	Read, create, and edit spreadsheets — formulas, charts, conditional formatting (requires Python)

Structure

Each top-level directory is one skill:

nexus-skills/
├── <skill-name>/
│   ├── SKILL.md          # required — frontmatter + instructions
│   ├── agents/           # optional — sub-role definitions (read on demand)
│   ├── references/       # optional — extended reference docs
│   └── scripts/          # optional — executable utilities

Skills are installed to .nexus/skills/repos/nexus-skills/ and updated in the background (at most once per hour).

Credits and Licenses

This collection brings together content from several open-source projects. Each source is listed below with its original license and the skills derived from it.

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obra/superpowers — MIT License

Copyright (c) 2025 Jesse Vincent https://github.com/obra/superpowers

The following skills are adapted from superpowers:

• brainstorming/ — adapted (paths updated, Node.js requires added)
• subagent-driven-development/ — adapted (superpowers: skill refs → nexus-skills:)
• systematic-debugging/ — adapted (minor wording)
• verification-before-completion/ — used as-is
• requesting-code-review/ — used as-is
• writing-plans/ — adapted (plan storage path updated)
• test-driven-development/ — used as-is

Modifications: cross-skill references updated from superpowers: to nexus-skills:, storage paths updated from docs/superpowers/ to docs/nexus/, platform-specific hooks and bootstrap removed, requires frontmatter added where applicable.

Full MIT license text: superpowers/LICENSE

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awesome-skills/code-review-skill — MIT License

Copyright (c) 2025 tt-a1i https://github.com/awesome-skills/code-review-skill

The following skill is adapted from code-review-skill:

• code-review/ — adapted (placed in a subdirectory for Nexus repo layout compatibility)

Full MIT license text: code-review-skill/LICENSE

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EngineerProjects/Nexus_ai (nexus-engine) — original work

The following skills were originally written for the Nexus engine and are maintained in this repository:

• skill-creator/ — original work, © 2026 KPOVIESSI Stéphane
• frontend-design/ — original work, written for Nexus
• pdf/ — original work, written for Nexus
• docx/ — original work, written for Nexus
• pptx/ — original work, written for Nexus
• xlsx/ — original work, written for Nexus

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License

This repository is released under the MIT License — see LICENSE.

Skills derived from third-party sources retain attribution to their original authors as described above.