skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from jsmastery-pro/skills. It costs 582 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for a collection of coding-agent skills that support different phases of software development, from planning to testing and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when choosing workflow skills, planning a change, developing it, running checks or tests, reviewing results, or documenting the work.
Why use it?
They keep the engineer in control: recommendations and checks are reported for a decision rather than silently applied or treated as mandatory gates.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is jsmastery-pro/skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything skills configures →

About the project

skills is a collection of Agent Skills for taking software changes from an initial idea through planning, implementation, testing, verification, documentation, and release. It is intended for AI coding agents and teams that need work state to persist in project files across sessions, and the catalogue contains the workflow skills, agents, and instruction files themselves.

jsmastery-pro/skills · 1,602 stars · on GitHub · jsmastery.com

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CLAUDE.md · 20 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 20 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project: Engineering Workflow Skills

A collection of Claude Code skills encoding a phase based engineering workflow. No mandated playbook: you run whichever skills a change needs, in whatever order fits. /scope recommends a workflow tier (Prototype/Alpha/Beta/GA, how much verification a project or feature warrants), but it is a default you override per feature, never a forced track.

Conventions every skill follows

  • The engineer decides; the AI recommends. Any AI initiated verification or critique (e.g. /architect's cross model spec check) is offered, never run or skipped on the engineer's behalf. Whatever such a check finds, a gap, a load bearing decision, a fix, is surfaced to the engineer to decide, never silently resolved or auto applied. A check the engineer invokes directly (/check verify, /check review) is already their choice to run, and still reports rather than auto fixes.
  • Suggestions, never gates. The engineer is in charge: every step after /develop (/check verify, /test, /check review, /document) is suggested by the tier and freely skippable, and done is the engineer's to declare, never a status a skill withholds until boxes are ticked. A skipped step is recorded honestly as skipped. The one thing the workflow asks is that a load bearing decision be written down (a spec); even that is flagged, not enforced (an Assumed spec never blocks done).
  • Every user facing question carries exactly one recommended option with a one line why (make the call, let them override). Never a neutral menu, never a cold question, never a silent decision.
  • Keep skills lean. A skill loads in full on its path every run, so every line is a recurring cost. Cut lines that don't change the agent's behavior, keep the reasoning in the commit or PR (not the skill body), name concepts instead of explaining them, and split out only rare, long content. Full guidance: docs/conventions.md. Run npm run check before committing skill edits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 20 lines

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skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jsmastery-pro/skills (1,602 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 582 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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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