low-level-dev-skills

low-level-dev-skills

A curated suite of AI agent skills for systems and low-level programming — C/C++, Rust, Zig, GPU, bare-metal firmware, Linux kernel/driver development, computer architecture, compiler internals, HPC, and more. These skills provide expert guidance for compilers, debuggers, profilers, build systems, sanitizers, low-level programming, embedded development, observability, virtualization, security, and WebAssembly.

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Installation

Install all skills with a single command:

npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --all

Or select specific skills interactively:

npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills

Install globally to make skills available in all projects:

npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --all --global

Install by language / tag

Install specific skill bundles using the --skill flag (space-separated list):

# C/C++ toolchain (compilers, debuggers, build systems, profilers)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill gcc clang llvm msvc-cl cross-gcc pgo cmake make ninja meson conan-vcpkg static-analysis gdb lldb core-dumps linux-perf valgrind flamegraphs strace-ltrace heaptrack sanitizers fuzzing elf-inspection linkers-lto binutils dynamic-linking assembly-x86 assembly-arm interpreters simd-intrinsics memory-model cpu-cache-opt

# Rust bundle (compiler, Cargo, debugging, profiling, FFI, cross, sanitizers, async, security)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill rustc-basics cargo-workflows rust-debugging rust-profiling rust-ffi rust-cross rust-sanitizers-miri rust-unsafe rust-async-internals rust-security rust-no-std rust-build-times

# Zig bundle (compiler, build system, C interop, debugging, cross, testing, comptime)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill zig-compiler zig-build-system zig-cinterop zig-debugging zig-cross zig-testing zig-comptime

# Embedded (RTOS, OpenOCD, linker scripts, embedded Rust, bare-metal)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill freertos zephyr openocd-jtag linker-scripts embedded-rust baremetal-startup mmio-and-bit-manipulation interrupts-and-exceptions-baremetal gpio-baremetal uart-serial-baremetal spi-i2c-baremetal dma-baremetal stm32-baremetal low-power-embedded

# Bare-metal focused
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill baremetal-startup mmio-and-bit-manipulation interrupts-and-exceptions-baremetal peripherals-from-datasheet gpio-baremetal uart-serial-baremetal spi-i2c-baremetal timers-pwm-baremetal adc-dac-baremetal dma-baremetal stm32-baremetal datasheet-and-refmanual-reading bootloaders-embedded low-power-embedded

# Kernel & driver development
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill linux-kernel-architecture kernel-memory-management kernel-concurrency device-tree platform-device-model writing-char-drivers bus-drivers-i2c-spi kernel-debugging-advanced qemu-for-kernel-development kernel-internals device-drivers

# Computer architecture
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill cpu-pipelines-and-hazards memory-hierarchy-and-caches virtual-memory-paging-and-tlb abi-and-calling-conventions branch-prediction-and-speculation

# QEMU & constrained-systems tooling
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill qemu-embedded-simulation qemu-for-kernel-development protocol-analysis resource-optimization-lowend verilog-basics-for-lowlevel

# Observability (eBPF, binary hardening)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill ebpf ebpf-rust binary-hardening

# WebAssembly
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill wasm-emscripten wasm-wasmtime

# The core essentials (compiler + debugger + profiler for all languages)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill gcc clang rustc-basics zig-compiler gdb lldb linux-perf cmake cargo-workflows zig-build-system

# Build systems only
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill cmake make ninja meson conan-vcpkg static-analysis zig-build-system cargo-workflows build-acceleration bazel include-what-you-use

# Profilers and performance tools
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill linux-perf valgrind flamegraphs strace-ltrace heaptrack rust-profiling intel-vtune-amd-uprof hardware-counters

# Runtime safety (sanitizers, fuzzing, Miri, binary hardening)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill sanitizers fuzzing rust-sanitizers-miri rust-unsafe binary-hardening rust-security

# Binary analysis (ELF, linkers, dynamic linking, binutils, DWARF)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill elf-inspection linkers-lto binutils dynamic-linking dwarf-debug-format

# GPU programming (CUDA, Triton, ROCm, memory model)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill cuda cuda-profiling cuda-debugging triton-lang hip-rocm gpu-memory-model

# Kernel internals and drivers
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill kernel-internals device-drivers kernel-debugging kernel-testing os-dev-scratch

# Async I/O and kernel bypass networking
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill io-uring dpdk af-xdp

# Allocators and NUMA
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill custom-allocators numa-programming

# Compiler internals (frontend, IR, passes, codegen, MLIR, JIT)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill compiler-frontend llvm-passes llvm-ir-and-passes compiler-optimizations-deep code-generation-and-backends mlir jit-compilation

# Virtualization
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill qemu-kvm hypervisor-internals containers-internals

# HPC and parallel programming
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill openmp mpi rdma-verbs

# Security and reverse engineering
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill reverse-engineering kernel-security

# Platform-specific (ARM SVE, RISC-V privileged, Apple Silicon)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill arm-sve riscv-privileged apple-silicon

# Emerging languages (Carbon, Hare)
npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill carbon-lang hare-lang

Supported Agents

Skills work with 30+ AI coding agents:

And many more including: Amp, Antigravity, Augment, Droid, Goose, Kiro CLI, OpenCode, Roo, Trae, VSCode, and others.

Usage Examples

After installation, invoke skills in your AI agent:

C/C++ toolchain

/gcc How do I enable link-time optimization?
/gdb Set a conditional breakpoint in GDB
/cmake What's the modern way to find packages?
/static-analysis Run clang-tidy on my whole project
/pgo Walk me through a GCC PGO workflow
/dynamic-linking My binary can't find its shared library
/cpp-modules How do I write a C++20 named module?
/cpp-templates How do I use concepts as constraints?
/binary-hardening How do I add RELRO and PIE to my binary?

Rust

/rustc-basics Configure a release build for maximum performance
/cargo-workflows Set up a Cargo workspace with multiple crates
/rust-debugging Debug a Rust panic with GDB
/rust-profiling Generate a flamegraph for my Rust binary
/rust-ffi Generate bindings to a C library with bindgen
/rust-cross Cross-compile Rust for ARM with cargo-zigbuild
/rust-async-internals Debug a waker leak in my async code
/rust-security Audit my dependencies with cargo-deny
/rust-no-std Set up a no_std crate for embedded
/rust-build-times Speed up my Rust workspace compilation

Zig

/zig-compiler What optimization mode should I use?
/zig-build-system Add a C library to my build.zig
/zig-cinterop Call a C function from Zig using @cImport
/zig-cross Cross-compile Zig for Raspberry Pi
/zig-testing How do I detect memory leaks in Zig tests?
/zig-comptime Write a generic Stack using comptime

Embedded and bare-metal

/freertos How do I detect stack overflow in FreeRTOS?
/zephyr Build and flash a Zephyr app with west
/openocd-jtag Connect GDB to my STM32 via OpenOCD
/linker-scripts Place my code in CCM RAM with a linker script
/embedded-rust Flash and debug with probe-rs and defmt
/baremetal-startup Fix .bss init so globals are zero before main
/stm32-baremetal Scaffold CMSIS-only STM32F4 without HAL
/bootloaders-embedded Jump from bootloader to app at 0x08010000

Kernel drivers and architecture

/linux-kernel-architecture Where does the page fault handler live?
/device-tree Write a DTS node for an I2C sensor with interrupt
/writing-char-drivers Add ioctl to my platform driver
/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards Break a RAW hazard in this hot loop
/llvm-ir-and-passes Explain what -O2 changed in this LLVM IR
/qemu-embedded-simulation Run my Cortex-M firmware in QEMU with GDB

Observability and security

/ebpf Write a bpftrace one-liner to trace system calls
/ebpf-rust Write an eBPF program in Rust with Aya
/binary-hardening Check my binary with checksec
/wasm-emscripten Compile my C library to WebAssembly
/wasm-wasmtime Embed wasmtime in my Rust application

Profiling & analysis

/linux-perf Generate a flame graph from perf data
/strace-ltrace Trace system calls to find a missing config file
/sanitizers Which sanitizer should I use for memory leaks?
/valgrind How do I suppress known false positives?
/heaptrack Find allocation hotspots in my C++ server
/intel-vtune-amd-uprof Analyze pipeline stalls in my hot function
/hardware-counters Measure cache miss rate with perf stat

Advanced debugging

/concurrency-debugging Read a TSan data race report
/debug-optimized-builds Why does GDB say "value optimized out"?
/dwarf-debug-format Set up debuginfod for automatic symbols

GPU and HPC

/cuda How do I fix warp divergence in my kernel?
/cuda-profiling Is my kernel memory-bound or compute-bound?
/openmp Parallelize this loop with a dynamic schedule
/mpi Debug a deadlock in my MPI_Send/Recv pattern

Kernel and systems

/kernel-internals Interpret /proc/meminfo during memory pressure
/device-drivers Write a platform_driver with threaded IRQs
/io-uring Build a server with liburing multi-shot accept
/qemu-kvm Boot my custom kernel with -kernel -append

Security and platform

/reverse-engineering Triage this stripped ELF with Ghidra
/kernel-security Write an AppArmor profile for my daemon
/arm-sve Write a vector-length agnostic SAXPY kernel
/apple-silicon Profile my app with Instruments on M-series

Skills

C/C++ Compilers (8 skills)

Debuggers (6 skills)