claude-skills

License: MIT Skills Platform

A working set of 26 Claude Code skills, used daily on real projects. Code review, shipping, marketing assets, device control, and agent orchestration.

These are not demos. Every one of them started as a task that went wrong, or went slowly, enough times to be worth writing down.

What a skill is

A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md inside it. The file carries YAML frontmatter with a name and a description, then plain Markdown instructions.

---
name: blindspot
description: Use before modifying unfamiliar or high-stakes code...
---

# Blindspot
...instructions Claude follows...

Claude Code reads the description of every installed skill at session start, and loads the full body only when the description matches what you are doing. So a skill costs almost nothing until it fires. You can also invoke one by hand as /blindspot.

Install

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/. Take all of them:

git clone https://github.com/ucsandman/claude-skills.git ~/.claude/skills

Or take one:

git clone https://github.com/ucsandman/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/blindspot ~/.claude/skills/

Start a new Claude Code session and the skills are live. Run /blindspot to check.

To scope a skill to one project instead of your whole machine, put it in .claude/skills/ inside that repo.

The skills

Thinking and review

Skill What it does
interview Interrogates a vague request before any code is written. For "make it better" and "add auth".
blindspot Surfaces what you are missing before you touch unfamiliar or high-stakes code.
adversarial-review Parallel review agents find issues, then a skeptic that defaults to REFUTED tries to kill each finding. Only survivors are reported.
de-vibe Finds and fixes the tells that software was AI-generated, then gives it a small distinctive identity.
show-me Explains the current topic visually: pseudocode, call trees, file trees, Mermaid, diffs, or one focused HTML page. From humanlayer/skills, MIT.
frontend-verify Drives the app after a UI change. Reads console and network errors first, writes full page state to disk, and only pulls a screenshot into context when a route actually fails.

Shipping

Skill What it does
ship The end-of-work ritual. Docs, commit, push, and a security spot-check that blocks the ship like a failed test.
wrap Session handoff. Writes durable notes and a resume prompt before a context or rate limit hits.
harness-health Read-only check of the local Claude Code setup. Finds dead hook paths, orphaned hook scripts, and enabled plugins with no cache.
fable-gpt Hands heavy implementation and debugging to Codex, and orchestrates Claude plus Codex in one session.

Marketing and launch

Skill What it does
marketing-studio Shared background for every asset skill below. Remotion, Blender, and Playwright pipeline.
logo-reveal Logo animation and brand intro video.
social-clip Short feature-announcement clip for X, LinkedIn, or TikTok.
product-demo Screen recording with zooms and a real cursor.
launch-video 30 to 90 second announcement composing demo footage, logo, and copy.
og-assets OG images, link previews, animated OG loops, and README GIFs.
audio-track Generated music, voiceover, and narration.
marketing Runs the whole asset suite for a product in one pass.
launch Launch copywriting and strategy, including the virality and positioning references.
ship-it Renders the assets, then posts the launch with videos attached.

Agents and orchestration

Skill What it does
team Fans one task across two agents. Picks a lead, delegates bounded subtasks, logs every exchange to a ledger, and reports back.
meditate A nightly reflection loop. Observations have to earn their way up a ladder from note, to memory, to standing rule. Most nights promote nothing, which is the point.
dashclaw-governance Governance protocol for a supervised agent. Risk thresholds, approval waits, and action recording.

Devices

Skill What it does
phone Drives a real iPhone over USB. Send and read messages, open apps, tap, scroll, and OCR the screen.
phone-gotchas The coordinate traps and silent failures that iPhone automation hits. Required reading before the first tap.
deskclaw A read-only view of the Windows desktop. Lists windows, dumps a window's accessibility tree, and takes screenshots.

Personal

Skill What it does
wes-voice Rewrites a draft so it sounds like a person wrote it quickly, not like marketing copy.

Layout

claude-skills/
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── <skill-name>/
    ├── SKILL.md          # required: frontmatter + instructions
    ├── references/       # optional: loaded on demand, keeps SKILL.md small
    ├── scripts/          # optional: executable helpers
    └── evals/            # optional: test cases for the skill

The references/ split matters. SKILL.md stays short so it is cheap to load, and the long material sits in a reference file that Claude reads only when it needs it.

Before you clone

A few of these skills call local tooling by path, such as a rendering pipeline or a message ledger, and expect it to exist. Read the SKILL.md before running one and adjust the paths for your machine. The reasoning in each skill is portable even where the paths are not.

phone and deskclaw are Windows plus iPhone specific. Everything in Thinking and review is plain Claude Code and runs anywhere.

Third-party skills

Some skills installed alongside these are other people's work under their own licenses. They are deliberately not redistributed here. Install them from source:

Skill Upstream
claude-api anthropics/skills (Apache 2.0)
six-hats, lateral, inversion danium/lateral-thinking
polish pbakaus/impeccable
agent-browser vercel-labs/agent-browser

Everything tracked in this repository is original work.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome, especially bug reports on a skill that misfires or fails to trigger when it should. If you fork a skill and make it better, a link back is appreciated but not required.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

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