compass-skills

Name: compass-skills Review
Item: compass-skills
Rating: 3.8
Author: Aaron Matthews

Skill Development Solid

Works inClaude Code

Solid Scanned — metadata only

Long-running agent work loses user context, project context, goal alignment, and handoff state at every conversation boundary.

COMPASS Skills gives AI coding agents four local SKILL.md skills: task-clarifier (aligns goals, scope, and acceptance criteria before ambiguous or risky work), task-forest (repo-local task graph with goals, dependencies, and progress), session-handoff-prompt (compresses the current conversation into a paste-ready prompt for a new session), and user-profile-keeper (a local, correctable collaboration-preferences profile). Works with Claude Code and Codex.

Clarify ambiguous or high-risk tasks into concrete decision criteria before the agent executes
Maintain a repo-local task graph that survives AI conversation boundaries
Generate a paste-ready handoff prompt so a new session continues work without replaying the transcript

726 starsMIT (commercial OK)FreeQuick setup

Why it matters

Long-running agent work loses user context, project context, goal alignment, and handoff state at every conversation boundary. COMPASS stores all four locally — a correctable user profile, a repo-local task graph, a continuation prompt, and a clarification gate before ambiguous or risky execution.

Best for

Engineering teams building or deploying AI agents that require consistent task execution and goal alignment.

Works in

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Source

https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills

By dongshuyan

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop App (Code Mode)Click the + button next to the prompt box → Plugins → Add plugin. Search and click Install. Skills work in Claude Code only.

Option 2: Paste into Claude CodeCopy the command below and paste it into your conversation. Claude will install it.

Command

npx skills add dongshuyan/compass-skills --skill '*' -a claude-code

Tip: Paste this into a Claude Code conversation. Verify command matches your Claude Code version.

First thing to try

After installing, paste this into Claude:

Help me clarify ambiguous or high-risk tasks into concrete decision criteria before the agent executes

CostFree

Trust Signals Auto-scanned

Stars726Contributors1Last updated2026-08-26LicenseMIT (OK for commercial use)Known CVEsNone foundSources: GitHub Advisory Database + OSV.dev · Scanned 2026-09-12 · scanner v1

Community Pulse New

No community discussions found yet. This doesn't mean the tool isn't good — it may be new or serve a niche use case.

Reviewer notes

Auto-scanned review. These are observations, not a security certification.

catalog_hygiene stale-eval refresh: Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 726 GitHub stars; 1 contributors; last commit 22d ago; license MIT.

Things to check

Alpha-status project (self-labeled). Skills are local files — keep references/, scripts/, and agents/ subdirectories intact when installing manually. Evaluated from public trust signals, not hands-on tested.
Single maintainer. Consider the risk if this person stops maintaining the project.

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Evaluation Scores

Evaluation

Ease of Use

4/5

Versatility

4/5

Reliability

3/5

Security

4/5

Overall score3.75 / 5.00 SolidEvaluatedSep 2026

catalog_hygiene stale-eval refresh: Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 726 GitHub stars; 1 contributors; last commit 22d ago; license MIT.

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