A collection of curated, opinionated skills and agent instructions to improve agentic coding of R packages.
Installation
You can install pkgskills from GitHub with:
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("api2r/pkgskills")Usage
pkgskills installs AGENTS.md and curated skill files into an R package project, giving AI coding agents the project-specific context they need to contribute effectively. The quickest way to get started is a single call to use_ai():
pkgskills::use_ai()This installs:
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AGENTS.md— a top-level context file describing your repository layout, standard workflow, and available skills. - A GitHub Copilot workflow — so Copilot Coding Agent can work on your repository.
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Seven skills in
.github/skills/— opinionated guidance for creating issues, implementing issues, writing R code, test-driven development, documenting functions, code search, and GitHub CLI usage.
See vignette("pkgskills") for a full walkthrough.
Code of Conduct
Please note that the pkgskills project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.