Bash Best Practices Skill

This skill ensures all bash scripts follow enterprise-grade best practices for maintainability, reliability, and user-friendliness.

When This Skill Applies

This skill should be automatically invoked when:

• Creating new bash scripts or shell scripts
• Editing existing .sh or .bash files
• User requests scripts for automation, deployment, backup, or system tasks
• Reviewing or refactoring bash code
• User mentions: bash, shell script, main function, argument parsing, script structure

Script Complexity Guidelines

This skill recognizes two categories of scripts with different structural requirements:

Simple Scripts

Scripts that do one simple thing well without unnecessary ceremony.