---
title: "essentials"
description: "Everyday engineering skills that work in any agent, commit messages and cross-tool session handoffs."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/essentials
last-updated: 2026-10-11
---

# essentials
Everyday engineering skills that work in any agent, commit messages and cross-tool session handoffs.
- Slug: essentials
- Publisher: Beau Lyddon
- Repository: https://github.com/lyddonb/agent-kit
- Manifest: plugins/essentials/plugin.json
- Version: 0.1.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 2 (commit-message, handoff-notes)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-10-10
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-10
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/essentials
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## Skills

- commit-message: Write a clear git commit message (Conventional Commits style) from the staged diff. Use when the user asks to commit, write or improve a commit message, or summarize staged changes for a commit.
- handoff-notes: Write a concise handoff note so another agent session, another tool (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, pi, OpenCode), or a teammate can resume the current work without re-reading the conversation. Use when the user says hand off, wrap up, save progress, pause, switch tools, or before a context reset.

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.