Seed

Seed is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Q00 in ouroboros.

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Install Seed

Copy Seed 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/seed ~/.claude/skills/seed

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/seed/SKILL.md in Q00/ouroboros
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/seed
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Seed does

Seed generates validated Seed specifications from interview results. Use it to crystallize interview sessions into a YAML seed with ambiguity scoring and QA.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/ouroboros:seed

Generate validated Seed specifications from interview results.

Required Skill Capabilities

ask_user — ask human-judgment questions through the active runtime's user-question surface.
inspect_code — read repo-local agent roles and recover exact context from local files before guessing.
call_mcp — use available Ouroboros MCP tools directly, including runtime tool discovery when a deferred MCP surface must be loaded.
run_shell — run bounded local commands for audit-trail writes and setup steps.
refine_answer — confirm free-form user decisions before treating them as accepted seed revisions.
maintain_ledger — keep QA scores, candidate decisions, rejected proposals, and audit trail keys visible.

Usage

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

Frequently asked about Seed

What else does Q00 publish alongside Seed?
Seed 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 Seed does, and is maintained by Q00 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Q00/ouroboros page.
How does Seed compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Seed ranks #479 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 Seed against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.