Agentic Engineering Kit

Composable engineering principles, rules, skills, and CI workflows for AI-assisted software development. Works with any AI coding assistant.

Quick Start

Open your AI coding assistant in your project and say:

Fetch the component catalog from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neuralsignal/agentic-engineering-kit/main/catalog.yaml and the integration guide from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neuralsignal/agentic-engineering-kit/main/INTEGRATING.md then help me select and install components for this project.

The assistant will read the catalog, assess your project, and install the components you choose.

What's in the Kit

Components are defined in catalog.yaml — the machine-readable source of truth.

• Constitution & Rules — Engineering principles, planning protocols, git conventions, data/ML standards, and more. Rules are auto-loaded by AI assistants from the rules/ directory.
• Skills — On-demand workflows with scripts: GitHub Actions patterns, skill creation and benchmarking. Skills follow the Agent Skills specification.
• Dark Factory Workflows — GitHub Actions that use Claude to autonomously triage issues, review PRs, implement features, audit dependencies, scan for vulnerabilities, and more. See workflows/README.md.

Browse all components: catalog.yaml

Alternative Integration Methods

AI-assisted (recommended)

The Quick Start prompt above. Your AI assistant reads catalog.yaml and INTEGRATING.md to select and install components. No manual steps.

Git subtree

Embed the full kit into your repo:

git subtree add --prefix=.agentic-kit \
  https://github.com/neuralsignal/agentic-engineering-kit.git main --squash

Update later with git subtree pull. Pin to a tag (e.g., v0.2.0) for stability.

Manual download

Grab individual files:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neuralsignal/agentic-engineering-kit/main/CONSTITUTION.md

Install script

Clone the repo and use the interactive installer:

git clone https://github.com/neuralsignal/agentic-engineering-kit.git
cd agentic-engineering-kit
./install.sh --list              # see available components
./install.sh --all --target ~/my-project --setup-platform cursor

See docs/composition-guide.md for detailed comparison of all approaches.

Platform Support

Components are plain markdown files that work with any AI coding assistant. The install script creates platform-specific symlinks (.<platform>/rules/ → rules/, etc.) for auto-discovery. See docs/platform-setup.md.

Creating Your Own Components

Templates for extending the kit with your own rules, skills, and agents:

• templates/new-rule.md
• templates/new-skill.md
• templates/new-agent.md

Versioning

This repo uses semantic versioning. Pin to a specific tag for stability:

git subtree add --prefix=.agentic-kit \
  https://github.com/neuralsignal/agentic-engineering-kit.git v0.2.0 --squash

• Major: Breaking changes to component structure or catalog schema
• Minor: New components, non-breaking improvements
• Patch: Typo fixes, clarifications

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Third-party: skills/skill-creator/ is from anthropics/skills (Apache 2.0). See skills/skill-creator/LICENSE.txt.