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  • Check current weather and short forecasts for planning

    This skill lets an agent fetch current conditions and short forecasts with a lightweight weather workflow instead of sending a user to a weather site. It is narrowly scoped to quick planning questions, not historical analysis, severe-alert monitoring, or a generic weather product listing.

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  • Remote-control tmux sessions for interactive CLI agents

    Lets an agent drive existing tmux sessions by sending keystrokes and scraping pane output, which is exactly what you need for interactive CLIs that cannot be handled as one-shot shell commands. Use it for session supervision and intervention, not for general terminal automation or starting new background jobs.

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  • Diagnose OpenClaw node pairing and route failures

    Guides an agent through the exact route, pairing, and auth checks needed when an OpenClaw companion node fails to connect over LAN, Tailscale, or a public URL. Use it when a node setup is broken and you need diagnosis, not when you simply want to list devices or advertise OpenClaw itself.

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  • Format plain-text drafts for clean Substack paste

    Transforms raw draft text into paste-ready Substack HTML so an agent can preserve headings, emphasis, lists, and spacing without hand-formatting every paragraph. Use it when the job is preparing a finished newsletter draft for the editor, not when you just need general writing help.

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  • Litestream SQLite Streaming Replication

    Litestream is a streaming replication tool for SQLite databases that continuously replicates changes to S3, Azure, GCS, SFTP, or local storage. Written in Go with 13k+ GitHub stars, it enables SQLite to be used as a production database with disaster recovery.

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  • Restic Fast Encrypted Backup Program

    Restic is a fast, secure, and efficient backup program supporting local, SFTP, S3, Azure, GCS, and many other storage backends. Written in Go with 32k+ GitHub stars, it features deduplication, encryption, and snapshot-based incremental backups.

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  • pgcli Interactive PostgreSQL Client with Autocompletion

    pgcli is an interactive PostgreSQL CLI with context-aware autocompletion, syntax highlighting, and multi-line query editing. Part of the dbcli project with 13k+ GitHub stars, it makes database exploration and query writing dramatically more productive.

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  • chezmoi Cross-Machine Dotfiles Manager

    chezmoi manages dotfiles across multiple machines securely using a Git-backed source-of-truth model with templates, encryption, and cross-platform support. Written in Go with 18k+ GitHub stars, it handles machine-specific configs, secrets, and one-command bootstrap.

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  • Difftastic Structural Syntax-Aware Diff Tool

    Difftastic is a structural diff tool that compares files based on their syntax rather than line-by-line text. Written in Rust with 24k+ GitHub stars, it understands 30+ programming languages and integrates directly with Git and Mercurial.

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  • Jujutsu Git-Compatible Version Control System

    Jujutsu (jj) is a powerful Git-compatible version control system that reimagines VCS workflows with automatic rebasing, first-class conflict tracking, and operation-log undo. Built in Rust with 27k+ GitHub stars, it works directly on existing Git repositories.

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