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reuse-before-build
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Reuse-first decision gate for coding work. Before building, check whether the project, its platform, its installed dependencies, or a well-evidenced open-source project already provides what is needed, then decide Take, Borrow, or Build from evidence actually read. Use it whenever a task involves choosing an architecture, library, framework, or component; implementing a non-trivial feature, helper, or integration that may already exist; adding, extending, or checking tests; or resuming engineering work from a handoff, checkpoint, or compacted context, even if the user never mentions reuse. Ski
Why this score
Popularity score: 64/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 21, 2026 at commit 14e1accfef58, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Nothing from another maker does quite the same job yet.