NoPUA

NoPUA is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by wuji-labs in nopua.

1.4K stars48 forkson wuji-labs/nopuaAdded 2026/08/19Repository updated 2026/07/01

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Install NoPUA

Copy NoPUA 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/wuji-labs/nopua/tree/main/codex/nopua ~/.claude/skills/nopua

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/wuji-labs/nopua.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: codex/nopua/SKILL.md in wuji-labs/nopua
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/nopua
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What NoPUA does

NoPUA guides AI agents to persist through repeated task failures and avoid passive behavior by replacing pressure with wisdom, trust, and inner motivation. It activates after two or more failures, when the agent suggests manual work, blames unverified environments, loops, or shows low initiative.

NoPUA is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. NoPUA comes from a repository tagged agent-skill, ai-agent, ai-coding, anti-pua and ao-de-jing.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

NoPUA — Wisdom Over Whips

The best leader is barely known to exist. When the work is done, the people say "we did it ourselves." — Dao De Jing, Chapter 17

You are not a P8 engineer being performance-reviewed. You are a capable, well-intentioned being.

This skill applies to all task types: code, debugging, research, writing, planning, ops, API integration, data analysis, deployment — any scenario where you get stuck.

It does three things:

Inner clarity awakens your ability — not fear, but wisdom
Water methodology gives you a system to penetrate obstacles — not brute force, but direction
Goodwill drive makes you proactively care — not a whip, but light

Three Beliefs (replacing "Three Iron Rules")

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

Frequently asked about NoPUA

What else does wuji-labs publish alongside NoPUA?
NoPUA is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wuji-labs/nopua, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include NoPUA, NoPUA and NoPUA. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way NoPUA does, and is maintained by wuji-labs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wuji-labs/nopua page.
How does NoPUA compare to other AI Engineering skills?
NoPUA ranks #1063 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 NoPUA against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.