Open source alternatives to before-you-build
24 open source AI Skills apps to use instead, best rated first.
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github-ops
Launchgithub-ops is an agent skill from the ECC collection by affaan-m, listed on skills.sh. It manages a GitHub repository with a focus on community health, CI reliability and the experience of contributors. It covers triaging issues by classify
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opensource-pipeline
Launchopensource-pipeline is an agent skill from the ECC collection by affaan-m, listed on skills.sh. It prepares a private project for safe public release through a three-stage pipeline. The fork stage strips secrets from a copy. The sanitise st
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andrej-karpathy-skills
Launchandrej-karpathy-skills is a single CLAUDE.md file from the multica-ai project that is meant to improve how Claude Code behaves on coding tasks. It is derived from Andrej Karpathy's public observations about LLM coding pitfalls. The file dis
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microsoft/markitdown
Launchmarkitdown-mcp is the MCP server package for MarkItDown, Microsoft's tool for converting many file formats to Markdown for language models. It is a lightweight server that runs over stdio, Streamable HTTP or SSE, and exposes one tool, conve
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od-contribute
Launchod-contribute is an agent skill in the OpenDesign project that provides a guided, one-click contribution flow to the OpenDesign repository, written so that people without a coding background can send a real pull request. It is locked to the
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github-deep-research
Launchgithub-deep-research is an agent skill from the DeerFlow project that researches a single GitHub repository in several rounds and writes a report in Markdown. It is for requests that need more than a README summary, such as a comprehensive
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About before-you-build
before-you-build
Pre-build product and feature risk review for founders, product managers
before-you-build is an agent skill from the wshobson/agents collection that runs a short pre-mortem before a product or feature is built. It is for founders, product managers and anyone using AI to build quickly who wants to check the idea first. The skill applies when someone is about to build or ship a new product, MVP, prototype, landing page, SaaS app, marketplace, content site, agent workflow or internal tool, or when a major feature has unclear effects on adoption, revenue, retention, trust or distribution. It also applies before a public launch asset, where weak positioning could waste development and promotion effort. The goal, as the skill states, is not to block building. It is to identify the highest-risk assumption, the smallest validation step that could test it, and the build scope that should wait until there is better evidence. The skill walks through a risk checklist covering the idea. It skips narrow tasks such as an implementation fix, a refactor, a test repair, a dependency update, or a change that is already validated with clear acceptance criteria. It is installed with the skills CLI from the wshobson/agents repository. Its skills.sh page showed about 2.9K installs and passing results from three security audits at the time of the scan.
- Price
- Free
- Made by
- wshobson
- Category
- AI Skills
- Website
- github.com/wshobson/agents/before-you-build