techne

τέχνη · /ˈtɛk.niː/ · "TEK-nee"

Ancient Greek for craft · skill · art: the practical know-how of making
and doing, and the shared root of both technique and technology.
Aristotle placed technē (knowing how) beside epistēmē (knowing
that).

Skills and agents for the AI era.

Website: techne.wangyun.fan.

Chinese version: README-CN.md.

What This Is

techne is a curated library of skills and agent assets for practical AI-era
work. A techne skill is not a prompt snippet. It is a forced cognitive move: a
small procedure that makes an AI collaborator investigate, judge, write, code,
or ship in a way it often skips under pressure.

The project keeps one shared source of truth in skills/. Host-specific files
stay thin: Claude Code plugin metadata, Cursor and Gemini manifests, and install
instructions for Codex, Kimi, and other Agent Skills hosts all point back to the
same skill bodies.

Skills

• viz — investigate a real codebase by diagramming it. It routes one user
  request across architecture, interaction, data-model, state-model, and
  type-structure diagrams, then validates and builds a local viewer. See
  skills/viz/README.md for detailed usage.
• repro — force bug fixes through a failing reproduction first, then verify
  with the same probe after the fix. See
  skills/repro/README.md for detailed usage.
• vet — force code review through computed scope, accounted blast radius,
  verified claims/findings, and admissible verdicts before approving or
  requesting changes. See skills/vet/README.md for
  detailed usage.
• intake — interrogate a written engineering implementation brief before work
  starts, accounting the fixed rubric, surfacing gaps/traps/questions, and
  emitting an intent-level plan. See
  skills/intake/README.md for detailed usage.

Install

Recommended: ask your AI agent. Paste this into Claude Code or Codex:

Install techne for my current agent by following https://github.com/lynxlangya/techne/blob/main/INSTALL.md, then verify the techne skills are available.

The agent reads INSTALL.md, detects your harness (Claude / Codex /
Cursor / Gemini / Kimi), runs the right install path, and confirms the skill
works.

Manual: per-harness commands and the universal npx skills fallback are in
INSTALL.md.

For Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add lynxlangya/techne
/plugin install techne@techne-dev
/reload-plugins

For Codex:

npx skills add lynxlangya/techne -a codex -g -y

See WORKFLOW.md for the delivery process and
ROADMAP.md for the product map.

Documentation

Public-facing documentation is split by language:

• README.md is the default English document.
• README-CN.md is the Chinese companion document.

The same convention applies to skill usage guides when a Chinese version is
needed, for example skills/viz/README.md and skills/viz/README-CN.md.