Adaptive Skills
Choose a learning path, install the library, use your first skill, or explore the architecture and governance behind Adaptive Skills.
Adaptive Skills is a portable library of small, reusable capabilities for disciplined AI-assisted work.
It helps people and AI agents choose an appropriate way to approach a task, produce a reviewable result, and avoid turning every request into improvised prompting.
38 portable skills Works standalone Integrates with AletheIATry it in two minutes
Start with one low-risk task instead of installing the whole library:
npx skills add nevitonsantana/adaptive-skills --skill workflowAsk your agent to use workflow before beginning the task. It should make the
goal, scope, proof, and next step explicit. When you are ready, add
feature-planning and testing from the quickstart.
Tell us what changed, what failed, and whether you would use the skill again in GitHub Discussions.
Choose your path
I am new
Understand what Adaptive Skills is, what problem it solves, and whether it fits your work.
I want to use a skill
Install a small starter set and apply one skill to a real, low-risk task.
I want to go deeper
Explore skill anatomy, capability boundaries, AletheIA integration, evidence, and evolution.
What it helps you do
Your first successful use
Understand the boundary
Adaptive Skills provides reusable execution guidance. It is not an autonomous agent, runtime, project manager, or approval authority.
Install a small set
Begin with workflow, feature-planning, and testing, or install only the one skill needed for your task.
Choose from the task
Identify the dominant need: clarify intent, plan, implement, debug, review, validate, communicate, or hand off.
Apply and verify
Use the skill’s core moves, produce its expected output, and check its verification criteria before closing the task.
Quickstart
Go from zero to a first skill-assisted task.
Browse all skills
Find all 38 portable skills by task, trigger, and category.
Use with AletheIA
Understand the macro-governance and micro-capability relationship.
Frequently asked questions
Resolve common adoption, installation, security, and usage questions.
Important boundary
Creator
Adaptive Skills was created and is maintained by Neviton Santana, a Staff/Principal Designer working across product design, complex systems, artificial intelligence, and governed AI-assisted work.
GitHub
Follow the repositories, releases, and ongoing development of Adaptive Skills and AletheIA.
Connect with Neviton and follow his writing about design, AI, governance, and agentic work.
About the creator
Learn about Neviton’s design perspective, projects, and public writing.
Substack
Read Neviton’s essays and notes on design, AI, and complex systems.
Medium
Explore longer-form writing and practical reflections.
Notion profile
Meet Neviton and learn more about his background and work.
Next steps
- New reader: What is Adaptive Skills?
- Ready to try it: Quickstart
- Looking for a specific capability: Skill catalog
- Maintaining the library: Architecture Decision Records