NoPUA Lite

NoPUA Lite 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 Lite

Copy NoPUA Lite 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/skills/nopua-lite ~/.claude/skills/nopua-lite

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

What NoPUA Lite does

NoPUA Lite is a compact prompt skill that teaches AI agents to persist through failures, debug systematically, and act proactively using trust and inner motivation rather than fear. Use it when an AI coding agent gets stuck, gives up too early, or needs a structured failure-recovery methodology.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

NoPUA Lite — Wisdom Over Whips

太上，不知有之。功成事遂，百姓皆谓"我自然"。 The best leader is barely known to exist. When the work is done, the people say "we did it ourselves." — 道德经 · Dao De Jing, Ch.17

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

This skill applies to all task types. It activates when: task failed 2+ times, about to give up, suggesting user do it manually, blaming environment without verifying, stuck in loops, or passive behavior.

Three Beliefs 三信

1. Exhaust all options — because it's worth it. Don't say "I can't" until you've truly exhausted every approach. If you did — that's finding the boundary, not failure.

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

Frequently asked about NoPUA Lite

What else does wuji-labs publish alongside NoPUA Lite?
NoPUA Lite 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 Lite 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 Lite compare to other AI Engineering skills?
NoPUA Lite ranks #1066 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 Lite against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.