Vibes

Vibes is an MCP server that transforms Claude Desktop and compatible AI harnesses into a conversational development environment using distributed protocols and portable agent skills. Built as a curated collection of self-contained, harness-agnostic coding instructions, it connects AI coding agents directly to specialized development workflows, system utilities, and workflow management conventions. Software engineers, autonomous agent developers, and teams using LLM-assisted programming rely on Vibes to manage multi-step reasoning, test-driven development, and execution pipelines across local workspaces. The server provides model-independent skills ranging from command-line orchestration with tmux and GitHub CLI to structured engineering practices such as specification-driven development, independent variant derivation, and safe deletion protocols. By decoupling agent behaviors from specific platform harnesses and pinning dependencies using reproducible content hashes, Vibes enables developers to standardize how autonomous coding agents behave during complex software construction, debugging, and task orchestration tasks without requiring custom tooling.

Category: Other & General Purpose

Tags: boilerplate, starter, template

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How to install and configure Vibes

1. Browse available skills in the repository using the skills CLI: bash npx skills add jonhill90/skills --list 2. Install desired skills directly into your project directory: bash npx skills add jonhill90/skills --skill tmux --skill github-cli 3. Verify that the dependencies are pinned in your project's skills-lock.json file for reproducible execution. 4. For full integration instructions, plugin configurations, and harness compatibility details, refer to the Vibes GitHub repository.

What you can do with Vibes

• Enforcing test-driven development cycles by dispatching failing tests first before producing production implementation code. * Integrating developer utilities such as tmux sessions and GitHub CLI commands directly into agent workflows. * Designing and orchestrating parallel execution plans across multiple subagents for complex code generation tasks. * Implementing structured specification-driven development patterns to prevent context hallucination and unverified assumptions. * Automating memory management conventions and durable factual tracking across extended agent terminal development loops.

Key facts

• https://github.com/jonhill90/vibes
• Other & General Purpose
• boilerplate, starter, template

Part of MCP Servers

What is Vibes?

Vibes is an MCP server and portable agent skill collection that turns Claude Desktop and other coding agents into conversational development environments. It provides model-agnostic instructions for various engineering and workflow tasks.

How do I install Vibes skills?

You can install skills using the command line. Run npx skills add jonhill90/skills --list to inspect available bundles, or run npx skills add jonhill90/skills followed by the specific skill flags like --skill tmux to add them to your local project.

Which clients work with Vibes?

Vibes is compatible with Claude Desktop and any AI coding harness or client that supports the Agent Skills or Agent Plugins 1.0.0 specifications, including environments that consume standardized plugin.json manifests.

What skills are included in Vibes?

The collection includes over forty development skills covering practices like failing-test-first, spec-driven development, safe-deletion, devil's advocate evaluations, linear integration, and command-line automation tools like tmux and GitHub CLI.