Brownfield

Brownfield is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by Q00 in ouroboros.

5.4K stars550 forkson Q00/ouroborosAdded 2026/08/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/16

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Install Brownfield

Copy Brownfield into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/tree/main/skills/brownfield ~/.claude/skills/brownfield

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/brownfield/SKILL.md in Q00/ouroboros
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/brownfield
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Brownfield does

Brownfield scans a root directory for existing Git repositories and linked worktrees, then manages default repositories used as context in interviews. Use it before an interview to set or clear the repos that will be available.

Brownfield is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Brownfield comes from a repository tagged agent-os, agentic-ai, ai-agent, ai-coding-agent and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/ouroboros:brownfield

Scan a root directory for existing git repositories and linked worktrees, then manage default repos used as context in interviews.

Usage

ooo brownfield                # Scan repos and set defaults
ooo brownfield scan           # Scan only (no default selection)
ooo brownfield defaults       # Show current defaults
ooo brownfield set 6,18,19   # Set defaults by repo numbers
ooo brownfield detect [path]  # Author mechanical.toml via one AI call

Trigger keywords: "brownfield", "scan repos", "default repos", "brownfield scan", "mechanical detect"

How It Works

Default flow (`ooo brownfield` with no args)

Step 1: Scan

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Brownfield

What else does Q00 publish alongside Brownfield?
Brownfield is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Q00/ouroboros, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brownfield, Cancel and Cancel Executions. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Brownfield does, and is maintained by Q00 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Q00/ouroboros page.
How does Brownfield compare to other Automation skills?
Brownfield ranks #240 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Brownfield against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.