Brandon Ferguson
Community@bnferguson · Amsterdam
Brandon Ferguson maintains 54 skills for software engineering: Zig/Go/Rails language expertise, code review, research, planning, and repository intelligence.
Agent Skills by Brandon Ferguson
Showing 54 vetted skills indexed across 1 GitHub repositories.
bnfergusondeep-research
Orchestrates multi-agent web research to produce cited, whitepaper-style reports.
bnfergusonskill-creator
Guides creation of Claude skills with SKILL.md templates, validation, and packaging scripts.
bnfergusonresearch
Delegates topic research to a background agent that cites primary sources in a Markdown report.
bnfergusondomain-modeling
Build and maintain project glossaries and architecture decision records during design discussions.
bnfergusonzig-programming
Provides version-aware Zig language guidance with references, recipes, templates, and detection scripts.
bnfergusonmiren-house-style
Write and review Go code matching the Miren runtime team's house style.
bnfergusonverify-this
Verifies claims by comparing baseline and treatment evidence into a verdict.
bnfergusonvera
Search indexed repositories semantically to locate code by behavior, symbol, or pattern.
bnfergusonsandi-metz-rules
Review and refactor Ruby code against Sandi Metz's four maintainability rules.
bnfergusongo-concurrency-patterns
Implements Go concurrency patterns using goroutines, channels, sync primitives, and context.
bnfergusonwayfinder
Plans large efforts as decision tickets on an issue tracker and resolves them one at a time.
bnfergusonsetup-matt-pocock-skills
Configures a repository's issue tracker, triage labels, and domain doc layout for engineering skills.
bnfergusonexplain-diff-notion
Creates a Notion page explaining a code change with background, intuition, diagrams, and quiz questions.
bnfergusonsimple-english
Rewrite technical documentation using ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English rules.
bnfergusonwriting-for-agents
Write and structure documents that AI agents consume, including skills and AGENTS.md files.
bnfergusonrails-programmer
Write and review Rails 8 code following DHH philosophy and Rails conventions.
bnfergusonwait-what
Rephrases the previous AI response in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English with added context.
bnfergusonweekly-review
Generates a weekly summary of authored git commits classified by bugfix, tech debt, and net-new work.
bnfergusonhandoff
Writes a conversation summary document so a fresh agent can continue the work.
bnfergusongh-stack
Manage stacked branches and dependent pull requests with the gh-stack GitHub CLI extension.
bnfergusondiagnosing-bugs
Diagnose hard bugs and performance regressions through a structured feedback-loop workflow.
bnfergusonidiomatic-zig
Provides production Zig coding patterns from Ghostty and TigerBeetle for memory, safety, and performance.
bnfergusonwhat-did-i-get-done
Summarizes authored git commits over a specified time range into a concise status update.
bnfergusoncode-review
Reviews a git diff against coding standards and the originating spec using parallel sub-agents.
Frequently Asked Questions About Brandon Ferguson
FAQPage SchemaWhat tasks can I accomplish with bnferguson's skills?▼
You can write and review Zig, Go, Rails, and Ruby code, diagnose bugs and performance regressions, resolve merge conflicts, manage stacked PRs, run test-driven development, produce cited research reports, generate PRDs and specs, triage issues, and create architecture diagrams as HTML/SVG.
Who are these skills designed for?▼
Software engineers working in Zig, Go, or Rails codebases, plus engineering leads who plan work. Skills like miren-house-style target Miren runtime contributors, while wayfinder, to-tickets, and triage serve maintainers decomposing large efforts into tracked, agent-ready tickets.
How do the planning and execution skills fit together in practice?▼
Start with setup-matt-pocock-skills to configure the tracker and labels, sharpen ideas via grill-me or to-spec, decompose with to-tickets or create-tasks, then run implement and tdd. Handoff compacts sessions, and weekly-review summarizes authored commits.
Are these skills open source and what do they cost?▼
Several skills carry the MIT license, including deep-research, simple-english, readme-writer, and diagram-design; skill-creator and webapp-testing reference terms in LICENSE.txt. All are free to use subject to each skill's stated license.
What prerequisites or dependencies do the skills require?▼
webapp-testing requires Playwright for browser verification, gh-stack requires the gh-stack GitHub CLI extension, code-intel routes to vera, codegraph (MCP), and graphify, and zig-async-skill targets Zig 0.16.0+ with the new std.Io interface. Many planning skills need a configured issue tracker.