Development Workflow Skills for Aider
Skills that change how the agent works: planning, test-driven development, debugging, code review and git hygiene. Every listing below works with Aider. Free GitHub projects and paid options are ranked together.
Updated October 2026 · 3 listings · stars refreshed daily from GitHub
Aider does not load Agent Skills natively. The listings below mention Aider explicitly or ship an adapter for it.
How to add development workflow skills to Aider
Skills follow the open Agent Skills format: a folder with a SKILL.md file. Copy the folder into the skills directory your app reads, then restart the session so the new description is picked up.
Ponytail 🧩 SkillOpen source
Makes your coding agent write the minimum code a task needs, without cutting safety
Caveman 🧩 SkillFree
Terse-output skill plus local proxy that trims the tokens coding agents write and read
Skill Seekers 🧩 SkillOpen source
Turns docs sites, repos, PDFs and videos into Agent Skills and RAG-ready knowledge
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