CLASSIFICATION: PUBLIC LICENCE: MIT (TOOLING) DOC-ID: JGS-SE-KP REV: 1.16.3
JG Systems Consulting Ltd. · Agent Skills

SE Knowledge Packs

Installable knowledge-pack skills for coding agents, reconstructed from genuinely open systems-engineering bodies of knowledge, vetted, attributed, and shareable by construction. Ask a topic; your agent reads the right chapter and answers from reference notes, not a hazy recollection.

§01 · What it is

One rule: only genuinely open sources

Licence-vetted by construction

Every source clears a written eligibility rubric: Tier 1 public-domain or Tier 2 open-licensed. The Excluded list (ISO/IEC/IEEE, INCOSE, OMG, SAE, ECSS) is a hard stop. Each pack carries its source's licence and attribution.

Progressive disclosure

Each pack is an always-loaded SKILL.md index plus on-demand chapters, glossary, patterns, and a cheatsheet, so a large body of knowledge never fills the context window.

No runtime dependencies

Plain Markdown. No MCP server, API key, or licence tier needed at runtime. Clone, install, invoke.

§02 · Why it pays off

The standard answers, in the agent, when you need them

For the engineer

Stop breaking flow to dig through a 400-page handbook. Ask /nasa-se-handbook verification vs validation mid-task and get the framework (with the chapter it came from) instead of a plausible-sounding guess. The agent answers from reconstructed reference notes, so you can cite the source, not a hallucination.

For the firm

Put the same vetted bodies of knowledge in front of every engineer and every agent, junior or senior, on every project. Reviews, requirements, risk, and safety work trace back to NASA / NIST / DoD / GAO / FAA canon by default, not to whoever happened to remember it. Consistency you can audit, with no per-seat licence and no PDFs to chase.

Grounded, not guessed

Answers route to a specific chapter and name their source. The agent reads the text instead of recalling it, so you get fewer confident wrong answers in domains where that costs you.

Shareable by construction

Only genuinely open sources go in, each carrying its own licence. Hand a pack to a teammate, a subcontractor, or a client without a legal review.

Zero lock-in

Plain Markdown skills on the open Agent Skills format. No server, no API key, no subscription. They work the same offline as online.

§03 · Using a pack

Ask a topic; the agent reads the right chapter

# slash-invoke a pack by its slug
/sebok                       # load the pack's core frameworks for reference
/sebok systems of systems    # a topic: routes to the right chapter and answers
/nasa-se-handbook ch06       # a chapter id: load that chapter directly
/mil-std-882 what chapters do you have?   # browse the index

# or just ask: each pack's description makes the agent load it on a match
"What does the NASA risk handbook say about risk acceptance?"

Each pack uses progressive disclosure: an always-loaded SKILL.md index decides which single chapter answers your question and loads only that, so a large source never fills the context window. Full detail in docs/skill-usage.md.

§04 · Install

Clone, install, invoke

git clone https://github.com/jgsystemsconsulting/jgs-se-knowledge-packs.git
cd jgs-se-knowledge-packs
python install.py --dry-run     # preview packs + target
python install.py               # install for Claude Code

# other agents: native or format-transformed
python install.py --list-agents
python install.py --agent all   # claude · openclaw · copilot · codex · gemini
§05 · Supported agents

Open Agent Skills, many hosts

3

Native

Claude Code, OpenClaw, and GitHub Copilot CLI read the SKILL.md format directly: the whole pack is copied, with full progressive disclosure.

3

Transform

Codex (prompt), Gemini (TOML command), and Cursor (project rule) receive the always-loaded index inlined into one file by the installer.

1

Installer

One stdlib-only install.py with --agent / --list-agents drives them all. Defaults to Claude Code.

§06 · The catalogue

46 packs · 2 signposts

NASA · 14SE Handbook & Expanded Guidance, NPR 7123 / 7150, risk, system safety, fault management, HSI, PRA, R&M, schedule, cost, digital engineering, systems modeling
DoD / DAU / OSD · 11SE Guidebook, MIL-STD-882E, DoDAF, MOSA, RIO, digital engineering, M&Q BoK, T&E, MIL-HDBK-61 CM, MRL Deskbook, SD-22 DMSMS
NIST · 7AI RMF, SSDF, CSF 2.0, SP 800-160 SSE, SP 800-37 RMF, Cyber-Physical Systems, NIST/SEMATECH statistics
FAA · 6RMA Handbook, Systems Engineering Manual, System Safety, Human Factors Design Std, AMS V&V, Requirements Engineering Management
GAO · 4Technology Readiness, Cost Estimating, Schedule Assessment, Agile Assessment guides
EU / academic / JGS · 4EU AI Act 2024/1689, Digital Systems Engineering (arXiv), EARS requirements-writing, plus OMG & SE-standards signposts

Browse and filter the full catalogue on the pack reference page, or read the raw index in SKILLS.md.

§07 · Licensing

Two separable layers

Tooling & scaffolding

MIT, by JG Systems Consulting Ltd. The installer, validator, docs, and repo structure.

Pack content

Each pack carries its source's licence in packs/<slug>/LICENSE, independent of the repo MIT licence. A CC BY-NC-SA source yields a CC BY-NC-SA pack.

Drafting sheet · provenance

Every pack is reconstructed as synthesized reference notes, never a verbatim reproduction, with per-pack source attribution in NOTICE. No source-material download links are published; attribution travels as text plus the licence deed.

PRODUCT: JGS-SE-KP REV: 1.16.3 VENDOR: JG Systems Consulting Ltd.