# Kakoune Skill (authoring + debugging + validation)

**URL:** <https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-skill-authoring-debugging-validation/3031>\
**Category:** Plugins\
**Tags:** language, plugins\
**Created:** [November 1, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-skill-authoring-debugging-validation/3031 "2026-11-01T18:10:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![duncode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@duncode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/duncode)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-skill-authoring-debugging-validation/3031/1 "2026-11-01T18:10:15Z")

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# Kakoune Skill

This skill covers the full Kakoune scripting lifecycle in one merged workflow: **author** , then **debug** what breaks, then **verify** it the way a real user would see it.

```bash
https://gitlab.com/duncode/kakoune-skill.git

```

Drop it in your `~/.agents/skills/kakoune-moe`

## When to use it

Use this skill to create a Kakoune script or extend an existing one: a command, an option, a keymap, a hook, a highlighter, a completer, or a shell bridge (`%sh{}`).

It is also the right tool for **debugging** a script whose keystrokes, commands, or quoting misbehave — the two trip-ups below cause the vast majority of such failures — and for **verifying** TUI-only behavior (hook timing, selection merging, status-line flicker) in a live tmux session.

```bash
.
└── kakoune-moe
    ├── references
    │ ├── command-parsing.md
    │ ├── debugging.md
    │ ├── execeval.md
    │ ├── expansions.md
    │ ├── faces.md
    │ ├── highlighters.md
    │ ├── hooks.md
    │ ├── mapping.md
    │ ├── options.md
    │ ├── registers.md
    │ └── scripting.md
    ├── scripts
    │ ├── kak-validate.sh
    │ └── tmux-real-user-log.sh
    └── SKILL.md

```