Skills · Setups · Small helpers

A small kitchen for side projects.

Nine engineers cooking up tooling for coding agents: skills, setups and small helpers. Ideas go in half-baked. A few come out tasty.

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Cooks in the kitchen
09
Dishes on the stove
04
First dish, still cooking
01
Kitchen opened
2026

Why a kitchen

Side projects get messy. The tools shouldn't.

We kept rebuilding the same setups, retyping the same prompts and re-explaining how we work to coding agents. yumm lab is where we fix those things once, together.

  • Same setup, every machine

    A new laptop shouldn't cost a day of config.

  • Agents that forget

    Write our conventions down once, so agents follow them every time.

  • Steps on repeat

    If we've done it three times, it becomes a helper.

  • Ideas with nowhere to go

    A shared place to try things, without a roadmap.

Not a startup. Just a kitchen.

No roadmap, no deadlines. Just people who like making tools.

On the stove

Four things we keep cooking.

Everything starts as something one of us needed this week. Status is honest: nothing here is public yet.

  1. 01

    Skills

    Instructions that teach coding agents how we like to work: how to debug, review, write and ship.

    Cooking
  2. 02

    Setups

    Settings, plugins and an installer, so a fresh machine feels like home after one command.

    Cooking
  3. 03

    Small helpers

    Scripts and CLIs that remove one annoying step. Usually the step that annoyed us this week.

    Prep
  4. 04

    Experiments

    Things we try just to see what happens. Most end up in the bin. That's the point.

    Always on

The recipe

A clear recipe for messy ideas.

No roadmap. Just four steps we repeat until something tastes right.

  1. 01

    Prep

    Someone gets annoyed by something. That's the idea.

  2. 02

    Cook

    Build the smallest thing that fixes it. Ugly is fine.

  3. 03

    Taste

    Use it ourselves for a few weeks. Keep it or bin it.

  4. 04

    Serve

    Clean it up, license it properly, open it to everyone.

The crew

9 cooks. One kitchen.

Engineers who share a GitHub org and a soft spot for tools that make the day a little smoother.

See who's cooking

Still hungry?

Questions at the pass.

The pass is the counter where a dish waits before it goes out.

What is yumm lab?

A GitHub organization where a small group of engineers keeps the side projects we build together. For now that means tooling for coding agents.

Can I use anything yet?

Not yet. Our first project is private while we tidy it up. It goes public on GitHub when it's ready to serve.

Why the kitchen thing?

Side projects behave like cooking. You start with what's in the fridge, taste as you go, and not every dish makes it to the table.

How do I keep up?

Follow the yumm-lab org on GitHub. You'll see the first public dish the day it lands.