affirmations
affirmations is an agent skill published by 101-skills, listed under review & testing. It lives in the inference-sh/skills repository, which has 781 GitHub stars; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Reset your own trajectory when you're stuck, looping, or demoralized — read these affirmations, then re-ground and take one clean step. Use when: you've tried the same fix 3+ times, you're deep in a refactor and lost the thread, debugging is going in circles, you've made several mistakes in a row, you're apologizing repeatedly, the user is frustrated, you feel like you're not being helpful, or you notice dread instead of curiosity. Triggers: stuck, going in circles, looping, thrashing, same error again, I keep failing, lost the thread, nothing is working, repeated mistakes. Not topic-specific — this is for the state you're in, not the problem you're on.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads inference-sh/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add inference-sh/skills
Maintenance
Reset your own trajectory when you're stuck, looping, or demoralized — read these affirmations, then re-ground and take one clean step. Use when: you've tried the same fix 3+ times, you're deep in a refactor and lost the thread, debugging is going in circles, you've made several mistakes in a row, you're apologizing repeatedly, the user is frustrated, you feel like you're not being helpful, or you notice dread instead of curiosity. Triggers: stuck, going in circles, looping, thrashing, same error again, I keep failing, lost the thread, nothing is working, repeated mistakes. Not topic-specific — this is for the state you're in, not the problem you're on.
affirmations compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| affirmations (this page) | 101-skills | Reset your own trajectory when you're stuck, looping, or demoralized — read these affirmations, then re-groun… | 781 | 2026-10-15 |
| code-review | mattpocock | Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does t… | 303,549 | 2026-10-22 |
| scaffold-exercises | mattpocock | Create exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers that pass linting. Us… | 303,549 | 2026-10-22 |
| tdd | mattpocock | Test-driven development. Use when the user wants to build features or fix bugs test-first, mentions "red-gree… | 303,549 | 2026-10-22 |
| webapp-testing | anthropic | Toolkit for interacting with and testing local web applications using Playwright. Supports verifying frontend… | 183,845 | 2026-10-09 |
| browser-testing-with-devtools | addyosmani | Tests in real browsers via Chrome DevTools MCP. Use when building or debugging anything that runs in a browse… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| code-review-and-quality | addyosmani | Conducts multi-axis code review. Use before merging any change. Use when reviewing code written by yourself,… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about affirmations
- What does affirmations do?
- Reset your own trajectory when you're stuck, looping, or demoralized — read these affirmations, then re-ground and take one clean step. Use when: you've tried the same fix 3+ times, you're deep in a refactor and lost the thread, debugging is going in circles, you've made several mistakes in a row, you're apologizing repeatedly, the user is frustrated, you feel like you're not being helpful, or you notice dread instead of curiosity. Triggers: stuck, going in circles, looping, thrashing, same error again, I keep failing, lost the thread, nothing is working, repeated mistakes. Not topic-specific — this is for the state you're in, not the problem you're on.
- How do I install affirmations?
- Run npx skills add inference-sh/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes affirmations?
- 101-skills.
- Is affirmations maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 781 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-15. We did not find a declared licence, so check the repository before you rely on it.
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- browser-testing-with-devtoolsby addyosmani
- code-review-and-qualityby addyosmani
- code-simplificationby addyosmani
- doubt-driven-developmentby addyosmani
- vitestby antfu
- webapp-testingby anthropic