Cooking
Knife skills, sauce building and bread baking — the fundamentals, done right
- What
- Knife skills, sauce building and bread baking — the fundamentals, done right
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- none digital — no account, no API keys. Real kitchen gear the skill expects: a sharp chef's knife, cutting board, instant-read thermometer, heavy saucepan and skillet, kitchen scale.
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — a fundamentals-first cooking skill: pinch-grip knife work and safe dicing/mincing technique, sauce building from a proper roux (white, blond, dark) through pan sauces, and bread baking basics — grounded in professional references (The Professional Chef 10th ed., Jacques Pépin's New Complete Techniques, Tartine Bread). It ships with reference files (e.g. a mother-sauce tree) and names its prerequisites honestly (sharp knife, scale, instant-read thermometer). Discovered via skills.sh, listed here with credit to its creator by @joshrotenberg. Honest caveats: the skill's trigger description contains an in-joke about a sibling "accounting-fraud skill" — it's a joke, not a feature; the name "cooking" is extremely generic, so give the install folder a clear name; best as a complement to, not a replacement for, real practice. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Not verified.
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Prerequisites: none digital — no account, no API keys. Real kitchen gear the skill expects: a sharp chef's knife, cutting board, instant-read thermometer, heavy saucepan and skillet, kitchen scale. Install "Cooking" for me. A fundamentals cooking skill: knife technique (pinch grip, dicing, mincing), sauce building from roux through pan sauces, and bread baking basics, grounded in professional references. Repository: https://github.com/joshrotenberg/practical-skills 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file for the cooking skill (and its reference files) from the repository path into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "cooking". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. nothing digital — the practice happens in my kitchen). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.