Odoo Skills

Agent skills for Odoo engineering plus generic grilling, architecture review, documentation-aware planning, and codebase orientation.

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Table Of Contents

• What Is This?
• Why Use It?
• Quick Start
• Real-World Example
• Skills
• Project Structure
• Recommended Environment
• How It Works
• Designed For
• Deliberately Out Of Scope
• Stats

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What Is This?

Odoo Skills is an Odoo-focused skill pack with a small set of generic engineering workflows for AI coding agents.

Odoo work is full of sharp edges: version-specific ORM APIs, XML loading order, record rules, sudo() boundaries, multi-company behavior, asset bundles, OWL version differences, and OCA migration conventions. Generic agents regularly miss those details.

This repo gives your agent a practical operating manual: what to inspect, what to ask, what not to run without confirmation, and which Odoo-specific or architectural risks to check before claiming a task is done.

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Why Use It?

Generic Agent	With Odoo Skills
Guesses the Odoo version from memory	Detects version from branch, manifests, docs, config, or local source
Treats Odoo like normal Python + XML	Checks ORM, manifests, security CSVs, record rules, views, assets, tests, and version-specific APIs
Suggests commands that may touch the wrong database	Reads local setup docs/base command and asks before database-touching commands
Misses multi-company and portal/public exposure	Reviews groups, ACLs, record rules, sudo(), domains, and company isolation together
Mixes migration cleanup with feature changes	Keeps OCA migration compatibility work separate from behavior changes
Adds code without proving behavior	Writes Odoo tests at the ORM, form, access, controller, report, or mocked integration seam
Uses generic frontend advice	Routes OWL work through component, template, reactivity, props, assets, and migration guidance

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Quick Start

Install directly with npx from GitHub:

npx github:mart337i/odoo-skills

Install only one target:

npx github:mart337i/odoo-skills --target opencode
npx github:mart337i/odoo-skills --target claude

After publishing to npm, the package can also be run as:

npx @mart337i/odoo-skills

The installer copies all skills into both ~/.claude/skills and ~/.config/opencode/skills by default. Existing skills with the same names are moved into a timestamped .backup-odoo-skills-* folder before replacement.

For local development, clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/mart337i/odoo-skills.git
cd odoo-skills

Then symlink into Claude-style skills:

./scripts/link-skills.sh

Restart or reload your agent so it picks up the new skill list.

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Real-World Example

Prompt:

Add a portal endpoint that lets customers download a PDF report for their own records.

Without Odoo Skills	With Odoo Skills
Adds a controller and calls sudo() to fetch the record	Asks which model/report, confirms portal ownership rule, checks auth, CSRF, access rights, record rules, and whether sudo() is safe
Puts the route in any controller file	Inspects existing controller structure and route naming conventions
Returns a PDF if the ID exists	Verifies the current user can access that record and cannot enumerate others
Skips verification	Traces route -> model -> report flow and proposes a portal/controller test or realistic user access check before running commands

The point is not more ceremony. The point is fewer security bugs, fewer broken module updates, and less cleanup after the agent "helped."

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Skills

Skill	Use It For
grill-me	Stress-test generic plans and designs by asking one high-leverage question at a time.
grill-with-docs	Stress-test plans against project domain language, CONTEXT.md, and ADRs, updating docs as decisions crystallise.
improve-codebase-architecture	Find deepening opportunities that make a codebase more testable, navigable, and modular.
odoo	General Odoo addon development: exploration, debugging, architecture review, manifest/docs sync, models, views, controllers, reports, tests, and security.
odoo-17.0	Odoo 17 reference guides for actions, controllers, data, decorators, fields, manifests, migrations, mixins, models, OWL, performance, reports, security, testing, transactions, translations, and views.
odoo-18.0	Odoo 18 reference guides for actions, controllers, data, decorators, fields, manifests, migrations, mixins, models, OWL, performance, reports, security, testing, transactions, translations, and views.
odoo-19.0	Odoo 19 reference guides for actions, controllers, data, decorators, fields, manifests, migrations, mixins, models, OWL, performance, reports, security, testing, transactions, translations, and views.
odoo-code-review	Review Odoo code for correctness, security, performance, migrations, tests, manifests, and official coding guidelines.
odoo-code-tracer	Trace execution through controllers, buttons, cron jobs, model methods, overrides, computes, onchanges, constraints, database operations, side effects, and security checks.
odoo-grill-me	Stress-test Odoo plans before implementation: addon boundaries, models, security, UI flows, data, OWL, migrations, and verification.
odoo-idea-gates	Validate whether an Odoo module, addon, app, or product idea should exist: existing alternatives, buyer demand, wedge, reach, Odoo fit, and value equation.
odoo-migration	End-to-end OCA module migration workflow for [MIG] pull requests, with version tips from 8.0 through 19.0.
odoo-owl	Build, review, debug, and migrate Odoo OWL frontend code: components, templates, reactivity, hooks, props, plugins, registries, and assets.
odoo-test-writer	Create Odoo tests with TransactionCase, SingleTransactionCase, HttpCase, AccountTestInvoicingCommon, Form helper, tags, mocks, access tests, workflow tests, and coverage patterns.
zoom-out	Get a higher-level map of unfamiliar code and how the relevant modules and callers fit together.

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Project Structure

odoo-skills/
├── AGENTS.md
├── CLAUDE.md
├── README.md
├── bin/
│   └── odoo-skills.js
├── package.json
├── scripts/
│   └── link-skills.sh
└── skills/
    ├── grill-me/
    ├── grill-with-docs/
    ├── improve-codebase-architecture/
    ├── odoo/
    ├── odoo-17.0/
    ├── odoo-18.0/
    ├── odoo-19.0/
    ├── odoo-code-review/
    ├── odoo-code-tracer/
    ├── odoo-grill-me/
    ├── odoo-idea-gates/
    ├── odoo-migration/
    ├── odoo-owl/
    ├── odoo-test-writer/
    └── zoom-out/

There are no bucket folders. Skills live directly under skills/ so they are easy to link into different agent environments.

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Recommended Environment

If your Odoo source checkout is outside the project being edited, expose it so agents can inspect framework code instead of relying on memory:

export ODOO_SOURCE=/path/to/odoo

You can also expose your local Odoo command and setup docs:

export ODOO_BASE_COMMAND="/path/to/odoo/odoo-bin -c /path/to/odoo.conf --addons-path=/path/to/addons"
export ODOO_TOOL_README=/path/to/local-development/README.md

ODOO_BASE_COMMAND is the base command agents should inspect before proposing install/update/test commands. ODOO_TOOL_README points to local setup documentation agents should read before using project-specific tooling.

Put those exports in your shell profile if you want them available in every agent session.

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How It Works

flowchart LR
    A[Developer prompt] --> B[AI agent]
    B --> C[Odoo Skills]
    C --> D[Repo inspection]
    C --> E[Odoo conventions]
    C --> F[Security and migration guardrails]
    D --> G[Safer Odoo change]
    E --> G
    F --> G

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The skills push agents toward a simple discipline:

1. Detect the Odoo version and repo shape.
2. Use version-specific references for Odoo 17, 18, and 19 when detailed API guidance is needed.
3. Read manifests, models, views, security, assets, tests, and docs before editing.
4. Trace execution paths when behavior depends on controllers, buttons, cron jobs, overrides, or side effects.
5. Write tests at the Odoo behavior seam: ORM, form, access, workflow, controller, report, or mocked integration.
6. Use local Odoo source and setup docs when available.
7. Ask before running commands that touch databases or services.
8. Verify at the Odoo behavior seam, not just with generic static checks.

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Designed For

• Odoo addon development.
• Odoo module and app idea validation before implementation.
• OCA repositories.
• OCA module migrations between major Odoo versions.
• OWL/web client frontend work.
• Odoo code reviews and architecture checks.
• Odoo test writing for custom modules.
• Odoo execution tracing and impact analysis.
• Odoo 17, 18, and 19 version-specific reference lookup.
• Generic plan grilling, documentation-aware design work, architecture review, and codebase orientation.
• Agents working in unfamiliar Odoo codebases.

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Deliberately Out Of Scope

OpenUpgrade workflows are not covered. The migration skill is for normal OCA module migration and [MIG] pull request preparation.

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Stats

Metric	Value
Skills	15
Installer	npx github:mart337i/odoo-skills
OCA migration coverage	8.0 through 19.0
Version reference coverage	Odoo 17.0, 18.0, 19.0
Main focus	Odoo addon engineering plus generic engineering workflows
Frontend coverage	OWL, Odoo assets, templates, reactivity, migration
Testing coverage	TransactionCase, SingleTransactionCase, HttpCase, Form helper, mocks, tags, access tests
Safety focus	code review, execution tracing, security, multi-company, manifests, database-touching commands

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If this saves you from one bad sudo(), one broken XML load order, or one wrong-version migration, it did its job.

Star the repo if you find it useful.