SOTA Engineering Skills

Make your AI coding assistant build and audit like your most senior engineer.

Your assistant is brilliant — it just doesn’t know your standards, and it forgets the ones it does know as the task grows long. SOTA-skills fixes both, and the fix is measured: from a bare “build X” prompt, best-practice coverage climbs from ~59% to ~98% (+0.39) — the model stops silently dropping tests, rate limiting, structured logging, and TLS (see every number →).

It works by being a loop, not a prompt dump: route in only the rules a task needs, re-state them every turn, and re-check them last before shipping — so the guidance survives a long context instead of fading into it. That’s why it beats a bigger prompt instead of becoming one. Native on Claude Code; works with Antigravity CLI, Codex, and any agent that reads AGENTS.md. Those agents get the skills and an always-on directive, but not the per-turn re-statement, which is a Claude Code hook (per-agent detail), and no lift has yet been measured through them.

Under the hood: 43 skills (349 files, ~94k lines) of state-of-the-art 2026 practice, each instruction file under 500 lines so only the matching rules load — the cap applies to skills/** alone, never to README/CHANGELOG/docs/ — every fast-moving claim web-verified against a primary source as of the last full sweep (the root LAST-VERIFIED stamp). Between sweeps an upstream can still move under a claim, so the router’s own operating principle 1 stands: re-verify anything version- or CVE-sensitive at use time.

Two commands to install:

/plugin marketplace add martinholovsky/SOTA-skills
/plugin install sota-skills@sota-skills

Or clone + link (best if you want a local checkout to read, hack on, or pin). Skills are discovered from .claude/skills/ (per project) or ~/.claude/skills/ (personal, all projects). Clone the repo, then run the installer — it symlinks