Swe

Software Engineering Plugin

SWE workflow skills for repository setup, parallel git work, quality checks, commit and push, merge-request review, reviewer discovery, virtual environment management, and agentic project onboarding.

Workflow Skills

Use these as the primary entry points for normal software engineering work:

• start-work: begin a feature, fix, refactor, docs task, or investigation from a current baseline. Orchestrates project-dev-setup, git-start-work, and manage-virtual-environments.
• finish-work: wrap up a change with formatting, linting, verification, diff review, commit, and optional push. Orchestrates prepare-code-for-commit and git-commit-push.
• submit-work: prepare a branch for review, create a PR/MR, run independent review, find a reviewer, and notify them when tooling is available. Orchestrates finish-work, create-merge-request, and find-code-reviewer.
• onboard-repo: prepare an existing repo for human and agent collaboration. Orchestrates project-dev-setup, onboard-agentic-dev-flow, and third-party-skill-reference when borrowed skill behavior is involved.

Primitive Skills

Use these directly when the user asks for a specific narrow operation:

• project-dev-setup: read repo guidance, identify setup conventions, and keep docs and code aligned.
• onboard-agentic-dev-flow: add minimal AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md project guidance, human development flow notes, worktree-first git workflow, and distilled coding rules.
• git-start-work: start feature or fix work, preferring git worktrees for parallel and multi-agent development.
• prepare-code-for-commit: format and lint according to repo tooling first, with language defaults when the repo is silent.
• git-commit-push: review, commit, rebase when needed, and push changes.
• create-merge-request: create a PR/MR, run independent review, and route to a code reviewer.
• find-code-reviewer: identify the right code reviewer from repo ownership, memory, and recent changes.
• manage-virtual-environments: set up isolated project environments using repo-defined tools and versions.
• third-party-skill-reference: reference or wrap borrowed skills instead of reimplementing them in work-like-me.
• rank-software-decisions: rank engineering, architecture, tooling, dependency, migration, and AI/agent workflow options with an anonymized blog-derived value pattern.

Workflow Preferences

• Prefer workflow skills for end-to-end requests and primitive skills for focused operations.
• Prefer git worktrees for new work so multiple agents can work safely at the same time.
• Prefer rebase-based branch refresh and conflict resolution that preserves the original intent of the change.
• Prefer repo-defined format, lint, test, build, and setup commands over generic language defaults.
• Prefer independent high-effort review before requesting human review on a merge request.
• Prefer referencing or wrapping a good third-party skill over copying it or rebuilding it locally.
• Prefer decisions that preserve options, expose hidden cost, and survive ordinary maintenance over choices that only look elegant in the short term.