Toolkit
Tools that make the safe path the easy path: skills that teach your AI how Notre Dame builds software, and templates you can copy into a project in the next five minutes.
ND skills
Skills are machine-readable conventions your AI tooling loads as context — so the AI starts from Notre Dame's standards instead of generic ones, and you stop re-explaining the same conventions in every chat. Reference them from your CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md and they're simply part of how your AI works. (How to install skills)
Coming soon
oit-architecture
How OIT systems are designed and integrated — the architectural context an AI needs before proposing how your app should talk to ours.
Now Available
nd-web-theme-conductor
A skill to help create and style content for Conductor websites running the ND Web Theme v4
Now Available
vibe-coding-discipline
The core workflow encoded: nudges your AI toward following the best practices in this guide including specs, testing, security, and review.
Coming soon
security-scanner
Analyzes your app and code to identify security vulnerabilities in your AI-generated software. Then it recommends remediation so your agent can fix them.
Templates & checklists
Spec template (spec.md)
- The plain-English feature spec from the core workflow — what you're building, validation, error handling, auth, and limits, in a page.
- Context file starter (
CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md) - A fill-in-the-blanks README for the AI: stack, conventions, pre-commit commands, common mistakes. From Give your AI context.
- Pre-flight checklist
- The three questions before you ship: which lane, what data classification, reviewed for the lane it's in.
- Good AI-assisted PR checklist
- Spec linked, architecture noted, tests meaningful, AI disclosed, human-reviewed — from Shipping & review.
Downloadable versions of each will publish alongside the skills repo; the linked pages contain the full content today.