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Kitbash aims to be npm for portable AI coding skills

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Developer Harsh Singh is building Kitbash, an open standard for portable AI skills that works across assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot. The pre-alpha project lets users write a skill once and compile it for multiple tools, with versioned installs and testable suites. Singh seeks feedback on whether this solves the fragmentation problem in AI coding assistants.

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The idea addresses a real pain point, but success hinges on adoption by both developers and assistant makers.
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