conservative-code-edits

An agent skill for keeping code changes small, scoped, and project-safe. Works with any AI coding tool that supports skills.

Install

npx skills add addxing/conservative-code-edits

DeepSeek Harness

This repo follows the DeepSeek Harness (DSH) Skill format. Clone it into a skills directory and it will be auto-discovered:

# User-level install (available in all projects)
git clone https://github.com/addxing/conservative-code-edits ~/.dsh/skills/conservative-code-edits

# Project-level install (current project only)
git clone https://github.com/addxing/conservative-code-edits .dsh/skills/conservative-code-edits

DSH hot-reloads the skills directory after cloning; the skill becomes available in new sessions.

Or install it as an official bundle plugin in one line (requires pnpm; restart the web app afterwards):

dsh plugin --profile web add "github:addxing/conservative-code-edits#main"

Usage

Select this skill using your tool’s skill mechanism, or ask for it by name. Invocation syntax and automatic activation depend on the tool.

After installing the skill, ask your AI coding tool to use it when changing code in an existing project:

Use the conservative-code-edits skill to make this UI change.

If your tool supports automatic skill activation, it may select this skill when a task involves editing project code, resources, configuration, tests, or documentation.

What It Does

This skill guides an agent to:

• make the smallest necessary code change
• preserve existing architecture and implementation style
• avoid unrelated refactors and formatting churn
• ask before editing shared foundation code
• use dynamic color resources when a project supports dark mode

Files

• SKILL.md - the skill instructions
• LICENSE.txt - Apache 2.0 license