OpenKata

About

What was implicit craft must become codified practice. Open Kata turns engineering knowledge into portable, reusable workflows that AI agents can follow — so good patterns are shared, not lost.

A collection of platform-agnostic skills and rules that work with any agent supporting the Agent Skills specification. No vendor lock-in. No build step. Just files.

Why Skills, Rules & Profiles

Skills are context-efficient by design. Your agent reads a one-line description at session start — the full workflow only loads when it's actually triggered. No wasted tokens on practices you're not using right now.

Rules are always-on. They load into every session unconditionally — small, strict constraints that must never be violated. Commit format, code style, naming conventions. Kept short because they're always in context.

Profiles isolate work into fresh context. A subagent starts clean, does its job, and returns a summary. Your main session never gets bloated by specialized work happening in the background.

Connect Your Agent

Grounding your agent context with the OpenKata knowledge base.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

AI agents can connect directly to browse, search, and retrieve OpenKata content via the /mcp endpoint.

Server endpoint: https://openkata.dev/mcp

We suggest enabling the MCP only when scaffolding a new project or maintaining agentic structure.

Downloadable Static Skills

For offline or local-first workflows, download skills from this site and drop them into your repository to give your local agent OpenKata superpowers.