simba-skills

Simba-skills is a collection of essential skills designed to enhance the operational safety of AI coding agents, specifically when deployed on self-hosted environments such as Docker or Virtual Private Servers (VPS) running Postgres. This repository provides a series of automated skills that protect production systems from accidental disruptions and maintain a clean setup for AI assistants like Claude Code.

Key Features

• Production Safety: The skills are specifically built to prevent critical mistakes during testing, deploying, and database operations. They enforce strict safety measures that protect live data, providing a secure operating environment for developers.
• Automatic and Manual Skills: The collection includes both automatic skills which the agent triggers based on context, and manual skills that require explicit instructions, ensuring users have full control over potentially disruptive actions.

Skills Overview

This repository features six key skills:

Skill Name	Description	Trigger Method
production-safe-loops	Checks what tests or migrations will affect before execution, safeguarding against live data loss.	Automatic
lint-project-skills	Identifies potentially unsafe or unused skills within the project.	Automatic
report-skill-failure	Generates bug reports for misbehaving skills in an acceptable format without posting automatically.	Automatic
safe-deploy	Guides users through a step-by-step deployment process, ensuring backups and safety checks.	Manual (Command: /simba-skills:safe-deploy)
server-maintenance	Automates essential server maintenance tasks such as backups and security reviews.	Manual (Command: /simba-skills:server-maintenance)
audit-claude-settings	Reviews and cleans up any risky settings in Claude Code to ensure a secure configuration.	Manual (Command: /simba-skills:audit-claude-settings)

Usage Examples

• Executing Commands: The agent intelligently reroutes tests that could impact production databases to a safe test database instead.
• Deployment Process: When invoking /simba-skills:safe-deploy, the agent outlines the deployment strategy, ensuring the user approves each step, including backups and rollbacks prior to executing the deployment.
• Settings Audit: The command /simba-skills:audit-claude-settings verifies permissions and cleans up potentially sensitive information from project settings, enabling a secure operational environment.

Maintenance and Updates

Users can enable auto-update functionality to keep the skills up to date or manually trigger updates as needed. A straightforward setting update in the configuration file can streamline this process.

Data Privacy

The operation of simba-skills emphasizes user privacy, with all computations occurring locally without external data collection. Skills only read and manipulate data stored on local machines, and communications are only initiated with explicit user consent.

Conclusion

Designed for developers who rely on self-hosted services and AI agents, simba-skills provides a robust suite of tools that enhance safety and maintain cleanliness in production environments. Its thoughtful design ensures that no disruptive actions are taken without user confirmation, significantly reducing the risk of human error.