SkillEngine: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

SkillEngine CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from borhen68/SkillEngine. It costs 467 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of engineering skills, agent roles, lifecycle hooks, slash commands, checklists, and setup guides for AI coding agents. Its skills cover defining work, planning, building, testing, reviewing, securing, optimizing, and shipping software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for tasks such as refining ideas, breaking down work, implementing with tests, debugging, reviewing code, checking security or performance, and preparing releases.
Why use it?
It organizes common software-development practices into reusable steps, helping agents follow a consistent process across a project.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

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None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SkillEngine

This is the SkillEngine project — a collection of production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.

Project Structure

skills/       → Core skills (SKILL.md per directory)
agents/       → Reusable agent personas (code-reviewer, test-engineer, security-auditor, web-performance-auditor)
hooks/        → Session lifecycle hooks
.claude/commands/ → Slash commands (/spec, /plan, /build, /test, /review, /code-simplify, /ship; plus /webperf specialist audit)
references/   → Supplementary checklists (testing, performance, security, accessibility)
docs/         → Setup guides for different tools

Skills by Phase

Define: interview-me, idea-refine, spec-driven-development Plan: planning-and-task-breakdown Build: incremental-implementation, test-driven-development, context-engineering, source-driven-development, doubt-driven-development, frontend-ui-engineering, api-and-interface-design Verify: browser-testing-with-devtools, debugging-and-error-recovery Review: code-review-and-quality, code-simplification, security-and-hardening, performance-optimization Ship: git-workflow-and-versioning, ci-cd-and-automation, deprecation-and-migration, documentation-and-adrs, observability-and-instrumentation, shipping-and-launch

Conventions

  • Every skill lives in skills/<name>/SKILL.md
  • YAML frontmatter with name and description fields
  • Description starts with what the skill does (third person), followed by trigger conditions ("Use when...")
  • Every skill has: Overview, When to Use, Process, Common Rationalizations, Red Flags, Verification
  • References are in references/, not inside skill directories
  • Supporting files only created when content exceeds 100 lines

Commands

  • npm test — Not applicable (this is a documentation project)
  • Validate: Check that all SKILL.md files have valid YAML frontmatter with name and description

Boundaries

  • Always: Follow the skill-anatomy.md format for new skills
  • Never: Add skills that are vague advice instead of actionable processes
  • Never: Duplicate content between skills — reference other skills instead

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SkillEngine CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository borhen68/SkillEngine (17 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 467 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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