Step By Step

Step By Step is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by kharmanskyi in open-steps.

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Install Step By Step

Copy Step By Step 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/kharmanskyi/open-steps/tree/main/skills/os-step-by-step ~/.claude/skills/os-step-by-step

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/kharmanskyi/open-steps.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/os-step-by-step/SKILL.md in kharmanskyi/open-steps
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/os-step-by-step
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1956 skills

What Step By Step does

Step By Step turns tasks that need the user's hands into clear, one-action instructions they can follow without guessing. Use it when you need someone to run commands, click, approve, or provide a secret, and verify each step after they act.

Step By Step is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Step By Step comes from a repository tagged agent-skill, agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

os-step-by-step

The user is not stuck because the task is hard - they cannot tell what they are being asked to do. This skill turns "I need something from you" into an instruction a person who does not read code can follow without a follow-up question. os-done-or-not reports that something is needed; this one says exactly how.

Language

Write in the language the user speaks in this session, detected from the conversation. Commands, file names and identifiers stay English.

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

Frequently asked about Step By Step

What else does kharmanskyi publish alongside Step By Step?
Step By Step is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from kharmanskyi/open-steps, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ask Simple, Check Work and Done Or Not. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Step By Step does, and is maintained by kharmanskyi in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the kharmanskyi/open-steps page.
How does Step By Step compare to other Automation skills?
Step By Step ranks #1687 by stars among the 1956 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Step By Step against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.