{"repo":"PrefectHQ/colin","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/PrefectHQ/colin","clone":"git clone https://github.com/PrefectHQ/colin.git","description":"A context engine that treats skills as software.","language":"Python","stars":121,"topics":["agent","agent-skills","claude","claude-skills","context","context-engineering","skills"],"license":null,"category":"ai-agents","readme_excerpt":"Colin A context engine that keeps agent skills fresh. --- Colin is a context engine. Write templates that reference live sources—GitHub, Linear, Notion, HTTP endpoints—and other documents. Colin compiles them, tracks dependencies, and rebuilds only what's stale. Run colin run . Colin fetches the Linear issues, resolves the reference to your weekly notes, extracts blockers via LLM, and writes the compiled skill. Run it again tomorrow—if nothing changed upstream, nothing rebuilds. The expires: 1d ensures time-sensitive content stays fresh. Install Documentation Full documentation at colin.prefect.io. Quick Start The fastest way to get started is with the quickstart blueprint, which builds a skill from Colin's own documentation: The compiled skill contains the Colin quickstart—pulled live from GitHub. When we update the docs, your agent's knowledge updates too. Output to Claude Code Configure Colin to write directly to Claude Code's skills folder: Skills appear in /.claude/skills/ and become available immediately. How It Works When Colin compiles a document, it records what sources were used and their versions—commit SHAs for GitHub files, timestamps for HTTP resources, version identifiers for MCP resources. This information is stored in a manifest alongside the compiled output. On subsequent runs, Colin checks the manifest against current source versions. Documents whose sources haven't changed skip compilation entirely. When a source does change, Colin recompiles the affected ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/PrefectHQ","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/PrefectHQ/colin/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}