# porting-another-repository

Reads a feature in your current repo and the target repo's conventions, then writes a porting plan into tmp/ as files you apply yourself.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1552
- Author: dyoshikawa
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/dyoshikawa/rulesync/tree/HEAD/.rulesync/skills/porting-another-repository/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/porting-another-repository

## What it does

The skill takes two inputs: `target_repo` (where you port into — `owner/repo`, a URL, or a local path) and `scope` (what you port — a feature name, directory, file, or rough description). Direction is fixed. The source is the repository you run the skill in, the target is `target_repo`. It never edits the target repo; it only leaves a plan on disk.

Work happens in steps. First the source: entry points, in-repo dependencies, build and test wiring, external packages. Then the target — language, package manager, directory layout, naming style, and existing code that overlaps with what you are moving. A local path is inspected directly; a remote one goes through `gh repo view`, `gh api repos/<owner/repo>/contents/<path>`, and the deepwiki MCP server. After that come a source-to-target mapping table, an ordered list of changes, and copy-paste diffs.

Output lands in `tmp/porting-another-repository-{YYYYMMDD-HHmm}/`. `00-overview.md` is written last and acts as the index, next to `01-source-analysis.md`, `02-target-analysis.md`, `03-porting-plan.md`, and `04-diff.md`. For a remote target you need `gh` set up and deepwiki reachable, otherwise the target analysis is limited to what is visible from outside. The timestamp is computed once per run, so every file shares one directory.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill porting-another-repository -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/porting-another-repository/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/porting-another-repository/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill porting-another-repository -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/porting-another-repository/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill porting-another-repository -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/porting-another-repository/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install dyoshikawa/rulesync porting-another-repository
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/porting-another-repository/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill porting-another-repository -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/dyoshikawa/rulesync --path .rulesync/skills/porting-another-repository
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/porting-another-repository/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill porting-another-repository -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/dyoshikawa/rulesync/tree/HEAD/.rulesync/skills/porting-another-repository/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- move a feature from one repo into another without tracing dependencies by hand
- learn a target repo's conventions before writing code into it
- get ready-to-paste diffs for the target project
- surface risks and open questions before the port starts
- find everything that travels with a feature: helpers, types, configs

## Example prompts
- Port the JWT auth flow from this repo into acme/backend
- Plan a port of the src/queue directory into /home/me/worker
- What has to come along with the report export feature when porting it to owner/repo?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: porting-another-repository
description: >-
  Plan how to port a feature, configuration, or implementation from this
  repository into another repository. Analyzes the source feature here and the
  target repo's conventions, then writes a multi-file porting plan (overview,
  source analysis, target analysis, plan, diff) to
  tmp/porting-another-repository-{YYYYMMDD-HHmm}/*.md for the user to review and
  apply manually.
targets:
  - "*"
---

arguments = the user's request

Parse `arguments` as:

- `target_repo`: the repository to port INTO, in `owner/repo` form, a URL, or a local path
- `scope`: what to port from THIS repository (a feature name, directory, file, or rough description)

If `target_repo` is not provided, ask the user which repository to port into.
If `scope` is not provided, ask the user what part of this repository they want to port.

The direction is fixed: the **source** is this repository, the **target** is `target_repo`. This skill never modifies the target repository directly — it only produces a porting plan on disk for the user to apply manually.

## Step 0: Prepare the Output Directory

Compute a single timestamp once and reuse it for every file:

```bash
ts="$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M)"
out="tmp/porting-another-repository-${ts}"
mkdir -p "${out}"
```

All artifacts in this run go under `${out}/`. Do not recompute the timestamp per file — every file must share the same directory.

## Step 1: Analyze the Source (This Repository)

Understand exactly what is being ported. Prefer targeted symbol and search tools over reading whole files.

Identify, for the requested `scope`:

- The entry points and the files that implement it.
- Its dependencies within this repo (shared utilities, base classes, types, config) that would also need to come along.
- Any build/test/tooling wiring it relies on (scripts, configs, fixtures, CI steps).
- External package dependencies it pulls in.

Write the result to `${out}/01-source-analysis.md`.

## Step 2: Analyze the Target Repository

Understand the target's conventions so the port fits in naturally.

- If `target_repo` is a local path, inspect it directly (grep/read).
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