Upstream First

mgifford/upstream-first

> Load this skill before implementing a fix for a barrier that may originate in a shared component, design system, renderer, or external dependency rather than this project's own code. Decide whether the responsible fix is local, an existing installed capability, or an upstream contribution before writing a workaround. Absolutely always record any temporary local divergence with an owner and removal condition. Under no circumstances open, comment on, or submit anything in an external project without explicit human approval.

2k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/mgifford/accessibility-skills --skill upstream-first

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take mgifford/upstream-first from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.