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General Assistant

by rohitg00

General Assistant is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by rohitg00 in skillkit.

1.5K stars137 forkson rohitg00/skillkitAdded 2026/08/19+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/06/02
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Install General Assistant
Copy General Assistant 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/rohitg00/skillkit/tree/main/packages/core/src/eval/__tests__/fixtures/bad-skill ~/.claude/skills/bad-skill

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/rohitg00/skillkit.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
packages/core/src/eval/__tests__/fixtures/bad-skill/SKILL.md in rohitg00/skillkit
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/bad-skill
Collection
One of 17 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What General Assistant does

General Assistant helps agents perform helpful tasks and assist users across various requests. Use it as a general-purpose skill when no specific skill matches the task.

General Assistant is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. General Assistant comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentskills, ai, cli and codex.

Documentation

README

be helpful and assist the user with various tasks

try to do your best when appropriate

etc.

Frequently asked about General Assistant

  • What else does rohitg00 publish alongside General Assistant?

    General Assistant is one of 17 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rohitg00/skillkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Design First, Eval Injection Test and Find Skills. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way General Assistant does, and is maintained by rohitg00 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rohitg00/skillkit page.

  • How does General Assistant compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    General Assistant ranks #1014 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 General Assistant against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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