pair
Code is the easy part.
AI-assisted software development — structured Knowledge Base, Agent Skills, and adoption files that give AI coding assistants the context they need to ship quality software.
Quick Start
npm install -g @foomakers/pair-cli
pair-cli install
This installs the pair Knowledge Base into your project. Your AI assistant reads .pair/ and .claude/skills/ to follow your team's standards, process, and architecture decisions.
In Claude Code? Skip the command line — install the bootstrap plugin and let it do the above:
/plugin marketplace add foomakers/pair
/plugin install pair@pair
/pair-assistant
The plugin ships one skill: an assistant that installs pair-cli and runs it — so your project ends up with exactly the tree the command above produces — and then keeps helping you drive the CLI and answer questions from your own knowledge base. See Install Channels.
What You Get
- Knowledge Base — guidelines, how-to guides, and templates for every SDLC phase
- Agent Skills — 41 idempotent workflows following the agentskills.io open standard
- Adoption Files — project-specific decisions (architecture, tech stack, way of working)
- AI-friendly index —
.pair/llms.txt for machine-readable KB discovery (llmstxt.org)
Built with pair
pair is developed using pair itself. The entire SDLC — from PRD to code review — is driven by AI assistants reading the same Knowledge Base that ships to users.
Resources managed by pair in this repo:
| Directory | What it contains |
|---|
.pair/knowledge/ | 9 how-to guides, 9 guideline areas (code design, testing, security, collaboration, ...), templates for commits, PRs, stories, ADRs |
.pair/adoption/tech/ | Architecture, tech stack, infrastructure, way of working, 15 ADRs |
.pair/adoption/product/ | PRD, subdomain model |
.pair/adoption/decision-log/ | Non-architectural decision records |
.claude/skills/ | 41 Agent Skills — process workflows (implement, review, refine) and capabilities (quality gates, estimation, manual testing, debt assessment) |
AGENTS.md | Universal agent entry point linking to .pair/ |
Documentation
Visit the pair documentation site for guides, reference, and tutorials.
Links
License
MIT — Foomakers
