claude-skill-pack

claude-skill-pack

A curated collection of Claude skills organized into domain layers — covering engineering, product thinking, founder/GTM work, design quality, and document creation.

Built for use with Claude's skill system on claude.ai.

What are Claude Skills?

Skills are structured instruction sets that tell Claude how to approach a specific task — what workflow to follow, what quality gates to apply, what patterns to enforce. They're loaded into context when a matching task comes up, giving Claude specialist-level discipline rather than generic help.

Each skill lives in a folder with a SKILL.md file. The frontmatter description field is what triggers the skill — Claude reads it and decides whether to apply the skill based on your request.

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md          # Required: name, description, instructions
└── references/       # Optional: supporting docs loaded on demand

Skill Layers

This pack introduces layer skills — meta-skills that group related specialists together. Instead of needing to know which exact skill to reach for, you describe the task and the layer routes to the right one automatically.

How It Works

You:    "Cold email an investor about my fraud detection startup"
         ↓
Layer:  founder-layer triggers on "investor" + "email"
         ↓
Skill:  investor-outreach runs its structured workflow
         ↓
Output: A tight, personalized, proof-first email — not generic copy

The layer skill is the router. The individual skills are the knowledge. Both need to be installed.

Skills in This Pack

🟠 Layers (skills/layers/)

⚙️ Engineering (skills/engineering/)

🧠 Founder (skills/founder/)

🔭 Product (skills/product/)

Installation

Install a .skill file on claude.ai

1. Download the .skill file from the releases page
2. Go to claude.ai → Settings → Skills
3. Click Install skill and select the .skill file
4. The skill is now active across your conversations

Install from source

Clone the repo and use any SKILL.md directly — the file format is plain markdown with YAML frontmatter.

git clone https://github.com/BTN101/claude-skill-pack

Skill File Format

Every skill follows this structure:

---
name: skill-name
description: When to trigger and what the skill does. This is the
             primary mechanism — Claude matches your request against
             all skill descriptions to decide what to load.
---

# Skill Name

Instructions for Claude go here in plain markdown.

## When to Activate
## Workflow
## Quality Gate

The description field is the most important part. It acts as the trigger — so it needs to be specific about both what the skill does and when it should fire.

Contributing

Skills are just markdown files. To add one:

1. Create a folder under the relevant category in skills/
2. Add a SKILL.md with proper YAML frontmatter
3. Optionally add a references/ folder for supporting docs
4. Submit a PR

Good skills have: a precise trigger description, a clear workflow, and a quality gate before output.

Why This Exists

Most AI assistance is generic. Skills make it structural — the same way a senior engineer follows a checklist before shipping an API endpoint, or a founder applies a framework before deciding what to build. This pack is an attempt to encode that discipline into reusable, shareable form.

License

MIT — use freely, modify as needed, attribution appreciated.

Built by @BTN101 · Centurion, South Africa