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claude-skills
Claude Skills for every role: 164 Claude Code skills (Agent Skills) for PM, QA, engineering, design, DevOps, sales, marketing and more. Install as a plugin.
Set up
Skills are installed by placing their folder where your agent loads skills.
Install instructions come from the README
Skills do not use an MCP config. Follow the steps in the README below; one-click install arrives with accounts.
README
synced Oct 14, 2026Claude Skills
Role-based Claude Code skills for every team. Install what your team needs, skip what they don't.
What This Is
A curated collection of Claude Code skills organized by job role. Each skill is a packaged workflow grounded in a proven book or methodology - Claude invokes it automatically, or you trigger it with a /skill-name command.
165 skills across 19 roles. PM, QA, Engineer, Designer, DevOps, Leadership, Program Delivery, Customer Success, Recruiter, Consultant, Sales, Marketing, Founder, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Security, Researcher, Accountant, and Business Analyst, plus shared skills installed with every role.
Install as a plugin
The whole collection ships as a Claude Code plugin, so you install it once and get updates through
/plugin update instead of re-cloning. Inside Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add qa-aman/claude-skills
/plugin install claude-skills@claude-skills
The install command opens a details view where you pick the installation scope. If the install
summary says Run /reload-plugins to activate., run that command.
Plugin skills are namespaced by the plugin name, so a skill is invoked as
/claude-skills:<skill-name>, for example /claude-skills:write-prd.
To refresh the catalog and pull newer skills later:
/plugin marketplace update claude-skills
/plugin update claude-skills@claude-skills
See VERSIONS.md for the version and last-updated date of every skill, so you can tell what changed before you update. Docs for the plugin system: plugins, plugin marketplaces, discover and install plugins.
Install
Prefer the script if you want the skills copied into .claude/skills/ as plain skills with
un-namespaced /skill-name commands, or you only want one role's skills on disk.
# Clone once
git clone https://github.com/qa-aman/claude-skills.git
cd claude-skills
# Install skills for your role
bash scripts/install.sh --role pm
bash scripts/install.sh --role qa
bash scripts/install.sh --role engineer
# Install for multiple roles
bash scripts/install.sh --role pm,qa
# Install everything
bash scripts/install.sh --all
# See what's available
bash scripts/install.sh --list
Global vs Project Install
Skills can be installed in two scopes:
| Scope | Command | Where | Available |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global (default) | --global or no flag | ~/.claude/skills/ | Every Claude Code session, across all projects |
| Project | --project | ./.claude/skills/ | Only when Claude Code is opened in that specific project |
Global install is right for most people. Your role skills (write-prd, qa-strategy, feedback-delivery) follow you everywhere — not tied to any single codebase.
# Global — skills available in all projects (default)
bash scripts/install.sh --role pm
# Project — skills available in this project only
bash scripts/install.sh --role pm --project
When to use --project: Team-specific workflows where everyone on the project needs the same skills, or project-specific conventions that don't apply to your other work.
Available Skills
Product Manager (--role pm)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
write-prd | Write a PRD from a brief or problem statement | Shape Up |
write-user-stories | Convert requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria | User Story Mapping - Patton |
prioritization | Prioritize a backlog using RICE or MoSCoW scoring | Continuous Discovery Habits - Torres |
feature-spec | Write a concise feature spec one-pager for engineering handoff | Shape Up - Singer |
okr-writer | Write measurable OKRs from strategic goals or intent | Measure What Matters - Doerr |
competitive-analysis | Structure a competitive analysis for a feature, product, or market | Blue Ocean Strategy |
product-discovery | Run structured discovery to identify what to build before building it | Inspired - Cagan |
team-brief | Write an empowered team brief giving engineers a problem, not a solution | Empowered - Cagan |
outcome-vs-output | Audit a roadmap to distinguish outcomes from outputs | Escaping the Build Trap - Perri |
retention-design | Design habit-forming product features | Hooked - Eyal |
experiment-design | Design product experiments with build-measure-learn loops | Lean Startup - Ries |
product-market-fit | Assess and improve product-market fit | Lean Product Playbook - Olsen |
11-star-framework | Apply 11-star experience framework to product decisions | The Experience Economy |
discovery-interview-prep | Generate user research interview scripts using Mom Test principles | The Mom Test - Fitzpatrick |
epic-breakdown | Decompose large epics into sprint-ready sub-epics using 9 splitting patterns | Agile Estimating and Planning - Cohn |
go-to-market-checklist | Generate pre-launch readiness checklists for feature releases | Crossing the Chasm - Moore |
opportunity-solution-tree | Build OSTs mapping outcome to opportunities, solutions, experiments | Continuous Discovery Habits - Torres |
persona-updater | Update user personas from new feedback, pilot data, or research | About Face - Cooper |
pilot-debrief | Synthesize pilot observations into structured debrief reports | Lean Startup - Ries |
compliance-auditor | Audit feature specs against India's DPDP Act 2023 — consent, children's data, retention, rights | DPDP Act 2023 |
product-thinking | Run 5 structured exercises before writing a spec (problem, 11-star, positioning, principles, vision) | Inspired - Cagan + Shape Up - Singer |
release-notes-writer | Generate user-facing and internal release notes from specs and tickets | Technical writing best practices |
retro-synthesizer | Synthesize sprint retro notes into categorized action items and patterns | Agile Retrospectives - Derby & Larsen |
risk-register | Maintain a centralized living risk register with likelihood x impact matrix | The Art of Project Management - Berkun |
spec-reviewer | Quality gate for specs — pass/fail scorecard before stakeholder review | Shape Up + enterprise spec standards |
stakeholder-update | Generate structured weekly status updates for leadership | Radical Candor - Kim Scott |
meeting-to-spec-update | Update a product spec from a meeting transcript with decisions, open questions, and flowcharts | Zero-assumption doc discipline |
pm-weekly-update | Generate weekly or monthly PM status updates from local data (meetings, tickets, decisions) | Lean Analytics + status-reporting best practices |
spec-to-ux-tasks | Extract UX tasks from a product spec and save as prioritised ux-tasks.md | Shape Up + UX handoff best practices |
QA (--role qa)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
qa-test-design | Write test cases, acceptance criteria, API test specs | The Art of Software Testing - Myers |
qa-execution | Run smoke tests, regression cycles, and SBTM sessions | How Google Tests Software |
qa-strategy | Test strategy docs, coverage matrices, risk prioritization | Agile Testing - Crispin |
qa-metrics | Quality dashboards, defect density, escape rate, trend reporting | Accelerate - Forsgren |
qa-release | Go/no-go decisions, release sign-off, defect triage | SRE - Google |
risk-based-testing | Allocate testing effort using Google's SET/SWE/TE model | How Google Tests Software |
exploratory-testing | Run charter-based testing sessions with HICCUPPS heuristics | Explore It! - Hendrickson |
Engineer (--role engineer)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
code-review | Review code for quality, bugs, and design issues | Clean Code - Martin |
debug | Debug systematically using reproduce-isolate-fix methodology | Pragmatic Programmer |
write-tests | Write unit and integration tests using TDD red-green-refactor | TDD by Example - Beck |
tech-debt | Document, scope, and prioritize technical debt | Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Feathers |
api-design | Design clean, consistent REST or GraphQL APIs | Philosophy of Software Design - Ousterhout |
pr-description | Write clear, reviewable pull request descriptions | Pragmatic Programmer |
karpathy-guidelines | Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes — simplicity, surgical changes, verification | Andrej Karpathy's LLM coding observations |
Designer (--role designer)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
design-critique | Critique a design for usability, hierarchy, and accessibility | Design of Everyday Things - Norman |
ux-audit | Audit a user flow for friction and drop-off points | Don't Make Me Think - Krug |
component-spec | Write a component spec for engineering handoff | Atomic Design - Frost |
design-system-doc | Document a design system component with usage rules and tokens | Atomic Design - Frost |
figma-copy-rewriter | Rewrite UI copy on Figma files for clarity, consistency, and plain language | Strategic Writing for UX - Podmajersky + 8 UX-writing frameworks |
interactive-flowchart-builder | Build interactive "living workflow" flowcharts (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS) with animated payload pills between tool nodes | Nebor revenue-engine reference site |
DevOps (--role devops)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
incident-response | Structure and run an incident response | SRE - Google |
runbook | Write an operational runbook for a service or on-call procedure | SRE - Google |
deployment-checklist | Run a pre/post-deployment checklist | Checklist Manifesto + Accelerate |
postmortem | Write a blameless postmortem after a production incident | SRE + Dekker |
Leadership (--role leadership)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
team-health-check | Assess team health across trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, results | Five Dysfunctions - Lencioni |
feedback-delivery | Deliver feedback using care personally + challenge directly | Radical Candor - Kim Scott |
one-on-one | Run structured 1:1s with direct reports | Manager's Path + High Output Management |
leadership-transition | Navigate a new leadership role using 30/60/90 framework | First 90 Days - Watkins |
team-multiplier | Shift from Diminisher to Multiplier leadership style | Multipliers - Wiseman |
psychological-safety | Build conditions where the team speaks up without fear | Leaders Eat Last - Sinek |
Program Delivery Manager (--role program-delivery-manager)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
dependency-mapping | Surface and visualize hidden cross-team dependencies | Making Work Visible - DeGrandis |
release-planning | Build a velocity-based release roadmap with risk buffers | Agile Estimating and Planning - Cohn |
delivery-risk-review | Identify, score, and mitigate delivery risks | The Phoenix Project |
milestone-scoping | Scope a milestone to fixed time with variable scope | Shape Up + Art of Project Management |
program-status-report | Write a structured program status report with RAG and decisions needed | Delivery management best practices |
flow-metrics-review | Analyze cycle time, WIP, throughput, and DORA metrics | Making Work Visible + Accelerate |
Customer Success (--role customer-success)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
qbr-deck | Build a structured Quarterly Business Review deck | Customer Success - Mehta et al. |
churn-risk-analysis | Identify churn risk flags and generate intervention playbook | Customer Success - Mehta et al. |
escalation-playbook | De-escalate a customer crisis with a structured response framework | CS de-escalation frameworks |
health-scorecard | Build a customer health scorecard across six dimensions | Customer Success - Mehta et al. |
onboarding-plan | Design a 100-day customer onboarding plan with phase gates | Never Lose a Customer Again - Coleman |
expansion-discovery | Identify expansion signals and structure upsell conversations | Farm Don't Hunt - Nirpaz |
Recruiter (--role recruiter)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
job-description | Write a performance-based JD anchored to 90-day outcomes | Hire With Your Head - Adler |
interview-scorecard | Build a structured scorecard with competencies and A/B/C rubric | Who - Smart & Street |
candidate-debrief | Run a structured debrief with calibration protocol | Who + Work Rules! - Bock |
offer-letter | Construct a compelling offer with comp philosophy and equity explanation | The Alliance - Hoffman |
sourcing-strategy | Build a multi-channel pipeline with outbound templates | Recruiting in the Age of Googlization |
intake-meeting | Run a recruiter-hiring manager intake to define scorecard and process | Who + Topgrading - Smart |
Consultant (--role consultant)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
client-proposal | Write a proposal with situation, approach, deliverables, and value ROI | Consulting Bible - Weiss |
engagement-scoping | Define scope, success criteria, roles, and boundaries | Flawless Consulting - Block |
exec-summary | Write an executive summary using SCQA structure | Pyramid Principle - Minto |
issue-tree | Decompose a problem MECE and generate hypotheses | McKinsey Way + Bulletproof Problem Solving |
status-report | Write a client status report with RAG, blockers, and decisions needed | Consulting best practices |
findings-presentation | Structure a findings deck using situation-complication-resolution | Pyramid Principle - Minto |
Sales (--role sales)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
discovery-call | Structure a discovery call with SPIN question sequence | SPIN Selling - Rackham |
deal-qualification | Qualify a deal using MEDDIC framework | MEDDIC methodology |
objection-handling | Handle objections using tactical empathy and labeling | Never Split the Difference - Voss |
sales-proposal | Write a proposal using teach-tailor-take-control structure | The Challenger Sale - Dixon |
account-plan | Build a strategic account plan with key players and expansion paths | Strategic Selling - Miller Heiman |
Marketing (--role marketing)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
brand-namer | Generate, score, and shortlist brand names through a guided interview | Hello, My Name Is Awesome - Watkins + The Brand Gap - Neumeier + Lexicon method |
positioning-doc | Write a positioning doc using competitive alternatives framework | Positioning - Ries & Trout |
customer-persona | Build a buyer persona anchored to buying context and JTBD | Obviously Awesome - Odden |
messaging-framework | Build brand messaging using customer-as-hero structure | Building a StoryBrand - Miller |
campaign-brief | Write a campaign brief with OMTM, audience, and channel plan | Lean Analytics - Croll & Yoskovitz |
growth-experiment | Design a channel growth experiment using Bullseye Framework | Traction - Weinberg & Mares |
icp-research | Build or refine the Ideal Customer Profile and personas | Jobs-to-be-Done - Christensen & Moesta |
content-writer | Write marketing content in your brand voice | PAS + AIDA copywriting frameworks |
content-repurposer | Turn one long-form asset into a multi-channel content pack | Contagious - Berger (STEPPS) |
seo-article-writer | Write SEO-optimized long-form articles for target keywords | They Ask You Answer - Sheridan |
thought-leadership-writer | Write opinion pieces, industry POV essays, and founder bylines | Made to Stick - Heath & Heath |
newsletter-writer | Write recurring newsletter issues with a consistent format and POV | Curiosity Gap - Loewenstein + Perell |
linkedin-post | Write a LinkedIn post in your brand voice | $100M Offers - Hormozi (Hook-Story-Offer) |
social-calendar | Plan a monthly multi-channel content calendar | Content Marketing Matrix - Chaffey |
landing-page-writer | Write copy for product, campaign, lead-gen, and pricing pages | Conversion copywriting frameworks |
ad-campaign-writer | Write paid ad copy for LinkedIn, Google, Meta, and YouTube | Breakthrough Advertising - Schwartz |
ab-copy-writer | Generate A/B copy variants selected by awareness stage, with a falsifiable hypothesis each | Tested Advertising Methods - Caples + Breakthrough Advertising - Schwartz |
email-nurture | Write multi-email nurture, onboarding, and lifecycle sequences | Hooked - Eyal |
case-study-writer | Write customer case studies and success stories | Pyramid Principle - Minto (SCR) |
press-release-writer | Write press releases for launches, funding, and milestones | Inverted Pyramid - AP journalism |
pr-pitch-writer | Write pitch emails to journalists, podcasters, and analysts | Trust Me, I'm Lying - Holiday |
webinar-planner | Plan a webinar end to end, starting from the topic angle | Obviously Awesome - Dunford |
competitor-analyst | Analyze competitors with the ERRC Grid and Strategy Canvas | Blue Ocean Strategy - Kim & Mauborgne |
kpi-review | Review marketing KPIs and write an executive summary | Storytelling with Data - Knaflic |
retro | Capture campaign and launch learnings with root cause analysis | Five Whys - Ohno |
ppt-maker | Build branded PowerPoint decks for pitches, QBRs, and board updates | Pyramid Principle - Minto |
brand-context | Create the shared knowledge/ files every other marketing skill reads. Run this first. | NN/g tone dimensions + Dunford + Lean Analytics |
copy-review | Review and improve copy that already exists, six passes with before/after scores | Zinsser + Williams + Ogilvy + Handley |
page-cro | Diagnose why a page is not converting, ranked fixes with a test plan | MECLABS heuristic + Fogg Behavior Model + Krug |
customer-research | Turn raw customer material into evidence-backed personas and verbatim VOC language | The Mom Test - Fitzpatrick + JTBD |
Founder (--role founder)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
customer-discovery | Run structured discovery interviews without leading the witness | The Mom Test - Fitzpatrick |
pitch-narrative | Craft a compelling startup pitch using secret-first framework | Zero to One - Thiel |
business-model-canvas | Design and stress-test a business model canvas | Lean Startup - Ries |
investor-update | Write a structured monthly/quarterly investor update | Venture-backed startup norms |
fundraising-email | Write a cold investor outreach email using traction-first framing | Traction - Weinberg |
Data Engineer (--role data-engineer)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
pipeline-design-doc | Document a data pipeline's architecture, data flow, contracts, and failure modes | Fundamentals of Data Engineering - Reis & Housley |
schema-spec | Write a schema spec with field definitions, constraints, business rules, and evolution policy | DDIA - Kleppmann |
etl-runbook | Operational runbook for ETL jobs covering monitoring, diagnosis, and backfill | Data Pipelines Pocket Reference - Densmore |
Data Scientist (--role data-scientist)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
eda-report | Run structured exploratory analysis and report quality findings with recommended treatments | Practical Statistics for Data Scientists - Bruce, Bruce & Gedeck |
experiment-design | Design A/B and hypothesis tests with pre-committed sample sizes and stopping rules | The Art of Statistics - Spiegelhalter |
feature-engineering | Design features from raw data with encoding, transformations, and leakage prevention | Feature Engineering for Machine Learning - Zheng & Casari |
model-card | Document a model with performance, subgroup analysis, failure modes, and monitoring plan | Interpretable Machine Learning - Molnar + Model Cards - Mitchell et al. |
data-story | Communicate insights to non-technical stakeholders, conclusion first | Storytelling with Data - Knaflic |
Security (--role security)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
threat-model | Identify and prioritize threats using STRIDE per system component | Threat Modeling - Shostack |
pentest-scope | Define pentest targets, rules of engagement, and deliverables | Penetration Testing - Weidman |
vuln-report | Write a vulnerability report with reproduction steps, impact, and remediation | Penetration Testing - Weidman |
Researcher (--role researcher)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
literature-review | Synthesize prior research by theme, surface contradictions, frame the gap | Research Design - Creswell |
hypothesis-framing | Write falsifiable hypotheses with operationalized variables and null/alternative forms | Research Methodology - Kumar |
study-design | Design a study with method selection, sample size, procedure, instruments, and analysis plan | Research Design - Creswell |
Accountant (--role accountant)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
financial-statement-review | Analyze income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow to surface performance signals and red flags | Financial Intelligence - Berman & Knight; The Interpretation of Financial Statements - Graham |
month-end-close | Run a controlled period-end close: cutoff, adjusting entries, reconciliations, trial balance review, and sign-off | Intermediate Accounting - Kieso, Weygandt, Warfield |
audit-workpaper | Write a reviewable workpaper with objective, population, procedures, tick marks, and conclusion anchored to assertions | Auditing and Assurance Services - Arens, Elder, Beasley |
budget-variance-analysis | Decompose budget vs. actual variances into price, volume, and mix; write the management commentary | Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis - Horngren, Datar, Rajan |
tax-position-memo | Write a FIRAC-structured tax memo with authorities, analysis, confidence level, and disclosure guidance | Federal Tax Research - Sawyers & Gill |
Business Analyst (--role business-analyst)
| Skill | What it does | Grounded in |
|---|---|---|
requirements-elicitation | Facilitate structured requirements gathering using interviews, workshops, and observation | BABOK Guide - IIBA + Mastering the Requirements Process - Robertson |
brd-writer | Write a Business Requirements Document from stakeholder inputs | Software Requirements - Wiegers + BABOK Guide - IIBA |
frd-writer | Write a Functional Requirements Document from a BRD or feature brief | Software Requirements - Wiegers + User Stories Applied - Cohn |
use-case-writer | Generate structured use cases with main flow, alternate flows, and extensions | Writing Effective Use Cases - Cockburn |
acceptance-criteria-writer | Write measurable acceptance criteria using Fit Criteria and Given-When-Then | Mastering the Requirements Process - Robertson + User Stories Applied - Cohn |
process-mapper | Map as-is and to-be business processes using BPMN-style notation | Business Process Change - Harmon + Business Analysis Techniques - Cadle |
gap-analysis | Identify gaps between current and desired state with Brown Cow Model | BABOK Guide - IIBA + Mastering the Requirements Process - Robertson |
root-cause-analysis | Run structured root cause analysis using 5 Whys, fishbone, and A3 | Business Process Change - Harmon + Lean Business Analysis - Sherrington |
cost-benefit-analysis | Build a CBA with ROI, NPV, payback period, and benefits mapping | The Business Analysis Handbook - Winter + Business Process Change - Harmon |
stakeholder-map | Map stakeholders by power/interest with engagement strategies | Business Analysis Techniques - Cadle + The Business Analysis Handbook - Winter |
impact-assessment | Assess business impact of a proposed change across people, process, technology, policy | The Business Analysis Handbook - Winter + Requirements Engineering - Hull |
data-dictionary | Generate a data dictionary with CRUD matrix and data lineage | BABOK Guide - IIBA + Business Analysis Techniques - Cadle |
decision-matrix | Build a weighted decision matrix using Wiegers Priority Matrix | Software Requirements - Wiegers + Business Analysis Techniques - Cadle |
traceability-matrix | Create an RTM linking requirements to design, test, and delivery | Requirements Engineering - Hull + BABOK Guide - IIBA |
uat-plan | Generate a UAT plan with scenarios derived from use cases and fit criteria | Writing Effective Use Cases - Cockburn + Mastering the Requirements Process - Robertson |
Shared (installed with every role)
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
presentation-builder | Build structured presentations for any audience |
jira-ticket-creator | Create Jira tickets from meeting notes, user stories, or quick lists |
diagram-generator | Generate any Mermaid diagram (flowchart, sequence, state, ER, journey, mindmap, timeline, gantt, sankey, quadrant, class, gitgraph) from a description, ticket, spec, or file, with optional one-file HTML preview |
confluence-to-md | Pull Confluence pages into clean GitHub-Flavored Markdown with image download, @mention resolution, and 10 storage format edge case handlers |
md-to-confluence | Push markdown to Confluence with image upload, TOC, wide tables, auto-numbering, date macros, and 9 post-push quality checks |
draft-email | Draft professional HTML emails (MoM, status, decisions) and save as provider drafts (Zoho reference impl) |
youtube-transcript | Fetch transcripts and captions from YouTube videos |
teach-me | Teach a topic, video, article, PR or spec in three stages with restatement, quizzes and a running checklist doc until understanding is proven |
Update Skills
bash scripts/install.sh --update
Remove Skills
bash scripts/install.sh --uninstall qa
Contributing
We welcome skills for every role and industry. Adding a skill takes about 10 minutes.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full guide. The short version:
- Create
skills/by-role/<role>/<skill-name>/SKILL.md - Register it in
skills.json - Run
python3 scripts/validate_skill.py - Open a PR
CI validates every PR automatically.
License
MIT - see LICENSE