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dylangrech92/hold-my-coffee — explained in plain English

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tl;dr

Hold My Coffee is an installable Agent Skill that makes AI coding assistants follow a senior engineer's careful, phase-by-phase workflow instead of generating code quickly.

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    What it does
      Senior engineer stance
      Phase based handbooks
      Evidence driven rules
    Tech stack
      Agent Skills format
      Claude Code
      Codex
      Cursor
    Use cases
      Task breakdown
      Root cause debugging
      Technical and product review
    Install paths
      npx skills CLI
      Claude Code plugin

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Make an AI coding assistant slow down and understand a system before writing new code.

VIBE 2

Break a task into small, shippable pieces using the skill's task breakdown handbook.

VIBE 3

Have the AI debug an issue by building an evidence chain to the root cause instead of a quick patch.

VIBE 4

Get a structured technical or product review of a change before it ships.

what's the stack?

Agent SkillsClaude CodeCodexCursor

how it stacks up fr

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LanguageTypeScriptPython
Setup difficultyeasymoderateeasy
Complexity2/53/52/5
Audiencedeveloperdevelopervibe coder

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · easy time til it works · 5min

Install with a single npx skills command, or as a native plugin inside Claude Code.

MIT license, use freely including commercially as long as the copyright notice is kept.

in plain english

Hold My Coffee is a pack of Agent Skills, meaning instruction files that change how an AI coding assistant behaves, aimed at making the assistant act more like a careful senior engineer than a quick code generator. Rather than jumping straight to writing code, it pushes the AI to first understand the existing system, write only the code needed to do the job, avoid known bad patterns, and treat every line of code it adds as something that has an ongoing cost. The pack contains a single main skill called sdlc. It is built as a short master file covering the overall stance and ten core rules, plus nine separate handbook files that get pulled in only when the AI reaches that stage of work: exploring a problem, breaking it into small shippable pieces, designing and building it, debugging with an evidence chain, reviewing a change before it ships, testing it in a fresh environment, checking it from a customer's point of view, and two cross cutting handbooks covering stability, security, and interface design. The AI reads the master file at the start of any task and only opens the handbook relevant to the phase it is currently in, rather than loading everything at once. Because Agent Skills are just a folder containing a SKILL.md file, this pack works with many different AI coding tools, including Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, and over seventy others, through a single install command from the skills command line tool. Claude Code users can alternatively install it as a native plugin through Claude Code's own plugin marketplace. Both installation paths support updating and removing the skill later, either from one specific tool or from every tool it was installed to. The repository was written by its author together with an Anthropic AI model. It is released under the MIT license, and the author asks that changes be proposed as issues rather than pull requests.

prompts (copy fr)

prompt 1
Install the hold-my-coffee sdlc skill in Claude Code and start a new feature using it.
prompt 2
Use the sdlc skill's debugging handbook to find the root cause of this failing test.
prompt 3
Run a technical review of my latest change using the sdlc skill's review handbook.
prompt 4
Break this feature request into vertical, shippable increments using the sdlc skill.
prompt 5
Explain how the sdlc skill's ten laws should change how an agent approaches this task.

Frequently asked questions

what is hold-my-coffee fr?

Hold My Coffee is an installable Agent Skill that makes AI coding assistants follow a senior engineer's careful, phase-by-phase workflow instead of generating code quickly.

What license does hold-my-coffee use?

MIT license, use freely including commercially as long as the copyright notice is kept.

How hard is hold-my-coffee to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is hold-my-coffee for?

Mainly developer.

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