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About ai-engineer

ai-engineer
Build production-ready LLM applications, advanced RAG systems
ai-engineer is an agent skill for building production-grade LLM applications, advanced retrieval-augmented generation systems and intelligent agents. It covers vector search, embeddings, retrieval pipelines, multimodal AI, agent orchestration, AI safety, monitoring and cost controls. Use it when you are building or improving LLM features, RAG systems or agents, designing a production AI architecture and its model integration, optimising vector search, or adding safety, monitoring or cost limits to an AI feature. The skill says when not to use it: for pure data science or traditional machine learning without LLMs, for a quick interface change unrelated to AI features, or when there is no access to the data sources or deployment targets. It is part of the sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills repository on GitHub, which has about 47,600 stars. The listing shows it as free, and it has about 1,300 installs. Its security audits show passes from Gen Agent Trust Hub, Socket and Snyk. Install it with npx skills add https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill ai-engineer.
- Price
- Free
- Made by
- sickn33
- Category
- AI Skills
- Website
- github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/ai-engineer
