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Open Steps is an open-source pack of agent skills that translates coding-agent output into plain-language reports, verdicts, questions, and next steps. Its skills include done-or-not reports, step-by-step instructions for nontechnical users, simple explanations of agent questions, premortems for hard-to-reverse decisions, verification of another session's claims, next-task recommendations, and plain-language rewrites.
The pack is built and measured primarily for Claude Code, where it installs as a plugin with two shell hooks. The session-start hook injects the routing table and the latest report, while the stop hook checks for completed work and requests a report when appropriate. Reports are stored outside project repositories. Skills and routing instructions can also be installed for Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI, although the repository notes that hook support differs across those tools.
Open Steps separates measured results from assumptions and marks unchecked information as "not checked." It is free software under the MIT license and is developed by Pavlo Kharmanskyi.
Provides coding agents with a reporting layer that turns completed work into plain verdicts, simplifies instructions, verifies another session's claims, and runs premortems before hard-to-reverse decisions.