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Ouroboros Tutorial

by Q00

Ouroboros Tutorial is an AI Engineering 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 Ouroboros Tutorial
Copy Ouroboros Tutorial 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/tutorial ~/.claude/skills/tutorial

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/tutorial/SKILL.md in Q00/ouroboros
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/tutorial
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering2451 skills

What Ouroboros Tutorial does

Ouroboros Tutorial walks users through an interactive, learn-by-doing experience that teaches Ouroboros's interview-to-seed workflow. Use it when someone wants to understand how Ouroboros exposes hidden assumptions, generates specifications, and prepares ideas for AI execution.

Ouroboros Tutorial is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Ouroboros Tutorial comes from a repository tagged agent-os, agentic-ai, ai-agent, ai-coding-agent and claude-code.

Documentation

README

/ouroboros:tutorial

Interactive tutorial that teaches Ouroboros through hands-on experience.

Usage

ooo tutorial
/ouroboros:tutorial

Tutorial Flow

When this skill is invoked, guide the user through a learn-by-doing tutorial with progressive disclosure.


Phase 1: The Hook (30 seconds)

Start with enthusiasm and immediate value:

Welcome to the Ouroboros Tutorial!

In the next 5 minutes, you'll:
- Transform a vague idea into a precise specification
- See Ouroboros expose hidden assumptions you didn't know you had
- Generate a validated Seed ready for AI execution

Let's start with YOUR idea. What's something you've been wanting to build?

[Wait for user response - any project idea works]

Phase 2: The Interview Experience (2 minutes)

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

Frequently asked about Ouroboros Tutorial

  • What else does Q00 publish alongside Ouroboros Tutorial?

    Ouroboros Tutorial is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Q00/ouroboros, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brownfield, Brownfield and Cancel. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ouroboros Tutorial does, and is maintained by Q00 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Q00/ouroboros page.

  • How does Ouroboros Tutorial compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Ouroboros Tutorial ranks #476 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 Ouroboros Tutorial against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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