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State of AI Instruction Quality: /init Files Score Higher

A scoring study of 8,220 CLAUDE.md files from top GitHub repos finding that files started with Claude Code's /init score higher at every file size (median 8.4 vs 7.7).
@cleverhoods · dev.to · 2026-10-14 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

I built a Claude skill that makes AI design like a senior UX designer

A free, MIT-licensed Claude skill that asks five setup questions, then renders UI screens with loading, empty and error states, focus rings and four responsive breakpoints.
@zeeshani42 · dev.to · 2026-10-13 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

What survives /compact in Claude Code: the root CLAUDE.md came back 8 of 8 times, an invoked skill didn't through claude -p --resume

An experiment on what survives /compact: the root CLAUDE.md always came back, but invoked skill bodies were sometimes dropped.
@rulestack · dev.to · 2026-10-05 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

We moved our Claude Code skills' reference.md files back into SKILL.md. Was that the wrong call?

Why one team folded its skills' reference.md files back into single SKILL.md files, and what that choice costs compared with the documented split layout.
@rulestack · dev.to · 2026-10-04 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Why your monorepo's per-package Claude Code skill says 'Unknown skill': it loaded after a Read in that folder, not after a cat (Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5)

Why a per-package skill in a monorepo reports "Unknown skill" when the file is read through Bash, and how loading order causes it.
@rulestack · dev.to · 2026-10-01 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games

A Claude Code skill that analyzes your chess games and produces a post-mortem.
brumar · Hacker News · 2026-09-26 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

I gave Claude Code $100 and 30 days to make a profit. Day 1, it built a product. Here's the pattern it used.

Day 1 of an experiment giving Claude Code a $100 budget and 30 days to turn a profit, where it chose to build Claude Code skills for freelance business tasks around one shared context file.
@rickbauer327cell · dev.to · 2026-09-16 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: Claude Skill – Interns must review (your agent's design choices)

A Claude Code skill that has several reviewer agents adversarially critique design choices before the agent commits to them.
alpbahadur · Hacker News · 2026-09-05 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Claude Code skills for advanced context engineering techniques and patterns

An open-source kit of Claude Code skills for advanced context-engineering patterns.
leovs09 · Hacker News · 2026-09-04 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Claude Code journal plugin: Notion session summaries at a glance

A Claude Code journal plugin with a /journal skill that writes glanceable session summaries to Notion.
@cseeman · dev.to · 2026-09-02 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

My Claude Code config costs 9,857 tokens before I type anything

How 107 skills, 38 agents and 15 commands added nearly 10,000 tokens of overhead before the first prompt, and how to trim it.
@amzotec · dev.to · 2026-08-30 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights

A Claude Code skill that recovers Kindle highlights that are blocked from normal export.
l3a0 · Hacker News · 2026-08-24 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: /show-me: agent skill for compact visual representations

/show-me, an agent skill that makes coding agents present plans and findings as compact visuals instead of walls of text.
dhorthy · Hacker News · 2026-08-12 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: Whetstone – 20 Claude Code skills, each distilled from one real failure

Whetstone, a set of 20 Claude Code skills each distilled from one real failure.
iamakbarsha1 · Hacker News · 2026-08-09 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex

Agent skills that apply a team's coding standards in Claude Code and Codex.
kanfilior · Hacker News · 2026-08-04 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: Wienerdog – memory and self-improving skills for Claude Code/Codex

Wienerdog, an open-source memory and self-improving skills system for Claude Code and Codex.
thegyula · Hacker News · 2026-08-01 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Hallmark – Anti-AI-Slop Design Skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex

Hallmark, an anti-AI-slop design skill for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.
opwizardx · Hacker News · 2026-07-26 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

How to structure CLAUDE.md, Skills and Agents

A tip on how to split guidance between CLAUDE.md, skills and agents when setting up Claude Code in a real codebase.
@hash01 · dev.to · 2026-07-25 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: Bookshelf – book quotes that appear between Claude Code and Codex turns

Bookshelf, a skill that shows book quotes between Claude Code and Codex turns instead of idle terminal output.
amaldavid · Hacker News · 2026-07-23 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Teaching Claude Code to Paint: A Stateful Image-Editing Skill Built on Gemini's Interactions API and MCP

A Claude Code skill plus MCP server for stateful, multi-turn image editing built on a Gemini image model.
@xbill · dev.to · 2026-07-22 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

tpu-management: a Claude Code skill for running Gemma 4 on Cloud TPUs

A Claude Code skill plus MCP server that provisions Cloud TPUs, serves Gemma 4 with vLLM, benchmarks it and tears it down.
@xbill · dev.to · 2026-07-21 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

NestJS Agent Skills for Claude Code and Codex

Agent skills that keep NestJS code consistent when built with Claude Code or Codex.
@amirtaherkhani · dev.to · 2026-07-20 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Claude Code skill for searching royalty-free stock photos via the Pexels API

A Claude Code skill for searching royalty-free stock photos through the Pexels API.
amalshehu · Hacker News · 2026-07-19 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Next Step: Skills & Hooks — Point, Don't Re-Prompt (After CLAUDE.md & Rules)

The layer after CLAUDE.md: using skills and hooks so you point Claude at procedures instead of re-prompting, with Go repo examples.
@mozes721 · dev.to · 2026-07-13 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

CI Health Check: a /ci Skill for Claude Code

A /ci skill that has Claude Code check a project's CI health.
@gbti · dev.to · 2026-07-11 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: Handoff – a verified context bridge between Claude Code sessions

Handoff, a skill that passes verified context from one Claude Code session to the next.
ostik · Hacker News · 2026-07-05 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: Better Graphs – Teach agents to stop making plain Matplotlib slop

Better Graphs, Claude Code skills and design rules that teach agents to produce good-looking Matplotlib charts.
tem_alThor · Hacker News · 2026-06-28 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

What I learned building a Claude Code plugin for MV3 Chrome extensions

Lessons from building a Claude Code plugin for Manifest V3 Chrome extensions.
@harish_kumar · dev.to · 2026-06-13 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Three Commands to Make Claude Code Stop Guessing Your Infra

Three commands that give Claude Code real knowledge of your infrastructure so it stops guessing.
@siddharth_pandey_27 · dev.to · 2026-06-05 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Commands vs Skills vs Agents in Claude Code — What Goes Where

What belongs in commands versus skills versus agents when configuring Claude Code.
@techlatestnet · dev.to · 2026-06-05 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

The Best Claude Setup (That Works on Any AI Tool)

A portable setup with tools in MCP, instructions in AGENTS.md and know-how in agent skills, so you can switch tools easily.
@harshdeepsingh13 · dev.to · 2026-06-04 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: I built a way to find and install Claude skills

A site for finding and installing Claude skills aimed at non-technical users.
patrickmds · Hacker News · 2026-06-02 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Ultracode for Codex: Claude-style Dynamic Workflows with a Skill

A skill that brings Claude Code-style dynamic workflows to Codex.
@pablonax · dev.to · 2026-05-31 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

I Built a Claude Code Skill That Reads Your Codebase's DNA in 20 Files

A skill that reads about 20 files to learn a codebase's unwritten conventions and enforce them.
@turacthethinker · dev.to · 2026-05-28 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: skills-for-humanity – 171 structured reasoning skills for Claude Code

skills-for-humanity, a collection of 171 structured reasoning skills for Claude Code.
finnworks · Hacker News · 2026-05-26 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

skill-insp: A Skill That Scores Other Skills

skill-insp, a skill that scores the quality of other Claude Code skills.
@conanttu · dev.to · 2026-05-25 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Generate Claude Code skills from your git history

How to generate custom Claude Code skills from your git history and memory files.
@ohugonnot · dev.to · 2026-05-24 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: Spec-Driven Development Workflow for Claude Code

A spec-driven development workflow for Claude Code that builds requirements, analysis and design specs before coding.
sermakarevich · Hacker News · 2026-05-22 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

I built a skill that makes AI-generated AWS diagrams actually usable

A skill with layout and icon rules that makes AI-generated AWS diagrams usable with little cleanup.
@vidanov · dev.to · 2026-05-22 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: I Made a Claude Skill for Spec-Driven Development (SDD)

A Claude skill for spec-driven development, built as an alternative to Kiro's spec workflow.
NTRIXLM · Hacker News · 2026-05-21 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

I built a Claude Code skill that scores your legacy Java code 1–100 and modernizes it to Java 21

A Claude Code skill that scores legacy Java code from 1 to 100 and modernizes it toward Java 21.
@santosh_ravitejagoteti_ · dev.to · 2026-05-21 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Claude Code's skillListingBudgetFraction: The Undocumented Setting Silently Killing Half Your Skills

How an undocumented skillListingBudgetFraction setting limits how many skills Claude Code loads, and how to tune it.
@akaranjkar08 · dev.to · 2026-05-21 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development

A Claude Code and Codex skill that turns coding sessions into deliberate learning opportunities.
cdrnsf · Hacker News · 2026-05-14 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: Full Stack HQ – Claude.md and Agent Stack for Claude Code

Full Stack HQ, a permission-first kit installing CLAUDE.md, 10 specialist agents and 28 skills with one command.
sabahattink · Hacker News · 2026-05-14 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

I built a permission-first CLAUDE.md + agent stack for Claude Code (free, MIT)

A free permission-first CLAUDE.md and agent stack that stops Claude Code from acting before asking.
@sabahattink · dev.to · 2026-05-14 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Six Claude Code Skills That Close the AI Agent Feedback Loop

MetalBear's six Agent Skills that teach Claude Code, Cursor and other SKILL.md agents when and how to use mirrord to run local code against a real Kubernetes cluster.
@eyalb · dev.to · 2026-05-13 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

HappyCapy ships skill-share analytics, contributor leaderboards & one-click install for Claude agents

HappyCapy, a Claude Skills marketplace that added share analytics, leaderboards and one-click install.
@lin_zhu_c66f7f4c200d3a186 · dev.to · 2026-05-12 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code

A collection of academic research skills for Claude Code.
arnon · Hacker News · 2026-05-10 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code

Kstack, a skill pack for monitoring and troubleshooting Kubernetes with Claude Code.
andres · Hacker News · 2026-05-07 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

CLAUDE.md for Rust: 13 Rules That Make AI Write Safe, Idiomatic Systems Code

A CLAUDE.md with 13 rules that make Claude Code write safe, idiomatic Rust.
“add a small async cache to this crate”
@olivia_craft · dev.to · 2026-05-07 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

CLAUDE.md for Go: 13 Rules That Make AI Write Idiomatic, Production-Safe Backend Code

A CLAUDE.md with 13 rules that make Claude Code write idiomatic, production-safe Go.
“add a worker that drains an order queue”
@olivia_craft · dev.to · 2026-05-07 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

CLAUDE.md for Vue.js and Nuxt.js: 13 Rules That Make AI Write Composable, SSR-Ready Components

A CLAUDE.md with 13 rules for composable, SSR-ready Vue and Nuxt components.
“add a user dashboard”
@olivia_craft · dev.to · 2026-05-07 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

The CLAUDE.md Structure That Makes Claude Code Actually Listen

A CLAUDE.md structure, refined over 35 projects, that Claude Code follows more reliably.
@olivia_craft · dev.to · 2026-05-06 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

CLAUDE.md for Ruby on Rails: 12 Rules That Stop AI from Writing Legacy Patterns

A CLAUDE.md with 12 rules that stop Claude Code from writing legacy Rails patterns.
@olivia_craft · dev.to · 2026-05-06 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

How I Set Up My Claude Workflow (Spec-Driven and Easy to Follow)

A spec-first Claude workflow with agent routing and hard guardrails, explained step by step.
@reymondyncierto · dev.to · 2026-05-05 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

14 CLAUDE.md Rules That Make AI Write Truly Safe Rust Code

14 CLAUDE.md rules that fix common Rust mistakes Claude Code makes, like unwrap on user input.
@olivia_craft · dev.to · 2026-05-05 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: Agent-evals – Claude skill to build your own evals

Agent-evals, a Claude skill for building your own evaluations for agents.
sauercrowd · Hacker News · 2026-05-04 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Claude Code Skills: A Practical Guide for 2026

A practical guide to writing Claude Code skills so you stop repeating the same instructions.
@muhammad_moeed · dev.to · 2026-05-04 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Cómo integrar OpenSpec con Claude Code paso a paso

(Spanish) A step-by-step guide to integrating OpenSpec versioned specs with Claude Code.
@bezael · dev.to · 2026-05-04 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Specsmaxxing: I Wrote YAML Specs for My AI Agents — Here's What Changed (and What Didn't)

An experiment writing YAML specs for agents in Claude Code, and where the quality problem moved.
@jtorchia · dev.to · 2026-05-03 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Slash commands: no more meaningless commits

A slash command that makes Claude Code write meaningful commit messages.
@guilherme44 · dev.to · 2026-05-01 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Skills Without Evals Are Just Markdown and Hope

Building an agent skill for @ngrx/signals and running it through a full eval pipeline to prove it helps.
@danielsogl · dev.to · 2026-05-01 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

caveman + brooks-lint + logic-lens: The Complete AI Code Review Stack for Claude

A code review stack combining the caveman, brooks-lint and logic-lens skills for Claude Code.
@hyhmrright · dev.to · 2026-04-29 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Each /slop Is a Calibration Signal — AI-SLOP Detector v3.6.0 and the Claude Code Skill

A Claude Code skill that pairs with an AI-slop detector so each /slop run calibrates the checks.
@flamehaven01 · dev.to · 2026-04-28 · Skills & Slash Commands · #

Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex

ctx, a local SQLite-backed skill that carries a workstream's context across Claude Code and Codex sessions.
dchu17 · Hacker News · 2026-04-20 · Skills & Slash Commands · #