Claude 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.

166 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
`ab-test-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
`better-way`	Challenge a stated approach and propose a clearly better one, with one pick, before building
`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

Claude Skills

What This Is

Install as a plugin

Install

Global vs Project Install

Available Skills

Product Manager (--role pm)

QA (--role qa)

Engineer (--role engineer)

Designer (--role designer)

DevOps (--role devops)

Leadership (--role leadership)

Program Delivery Manager (--role program-delivery-manager)

Customer Success (--role customer-success)

Recruiter (--role recruiter)

Consultant (--role consultant)

Sales (--role sales)

Marketing (--role marketing)

Founder (--role founder)

Data Engineer (--role data-engineer)

Data Scientist (--role data-scientist)

Security (--role security)

Researcher (--role researcher)

Accountant (--role accountant)

Business Analyst (--role business-analyst)