dev-skills plugin
Lightweight skills for users with existing workflows - coding best practices, testing principles, and design guidelines without recipe workflows or agents
How to install the dev-skills plugin
Run both commands inside Claude Code. The first adds the marketplace once; the second installs the plugin.
/plugin marketplace add shinpr/claude-code-workflows
/plugin install dev-skills@claude-code-workflowsWhat's inside dev-skills
9 parts read from the plugin's own files.
Skills 9
Claude loads it when the task matches- ai-development-guide
Applies technical decision criteria, anti-pattern detection, and quality gates for backend and frontend code implementation and review.
- coding-principles
Apply language-agnostic principles for maintainability, readability, and quality during implementation, refactoring, or code reviews.
- documentation-criteria
Determines the required technical documentation types, creation order, and storage locations based on the scale of a change.
- external-resource-context
Records access methods and locations for external resources like design systems, API schemas, and secret stores to prevent repeated rediscovery.
- implementation-approach
Guides an agent through selecting an implementation strategy and verification level, from current-state analysis to a documented design decision.
- integration-e2e-testing
Defines testing lane boundaries, required annotation patterns, file naming conventions, and route parity review criteria for integration and E2E tests.
- llm-friendly-context
Refines prompts, handoffs, and documentation to ensure downstream agents have explicit instructions, clear success criteria, and actionable context.
- requirement-convergence
Reconciles ambiguous requirements into a coherent plan by separating outcomes from proposed requirements and recording user exclusions.
- testing-principles
Apply language-agnostic principles to select test scope, design high-quality tests, and manage mocks and data layer verification.
Using dev-skills in Claude Code
Skills need no command. Claude reads them when your request matches what they describe.
Update, turn off or remove
- Update the plugin (shell)
- claude plugin update dev-skills@claude-code-workflows
- Refresh the marketplace
- /plugin marketplace update claude-code-workflows
- Turn it off for now
- /plugin disable dev-skills@claude-code-workflows
- Remove it
- /plugin uninstall dev-skills@claude-code-workflows
Skills in dev-skills
- ai-development-guideshinpr/claude-code-workflows
Applies technical decision criteria, anti-pattern detection, and quality gates for backend and frontend code implementation and review.
2 files714stars - coding-principlesshinpr/claude-code-workflows
Apply language-agnostic principles for maintainability, readability, and quality during implementation, refactoring, or code reviews.
3 files714stars - documentation-criteriashinpr/claude-code-workflows
Determines the required technical documentation types, creation order, and storage locations based on the scale of a change.
7 files714stars - external-resource-contextshinpr/claude-code-workflows
Records access methods and locations for external resources like design systems, API schemas, and secret stores to prevent repeated rediscovery.
7 files714stars - requirement-convergenceshinpr/claude-code-workflows
Reconciles ambiguous requirements into a coherent plan by separating outcomes from proposed requirements and recording user exclusions.
2 files714stars - testing-principlesshinpr/claude-code-workflows
Apply language-agnostic principles to select test scope, design high-quality tests, and manage mocks and data layer verification.
3 files714stars - implementation-approachshinpr/claude-code-workflows
Guides an agent through selecting an implementation strategy and verification level, from current-state analysis to a documented design decision.
714stars - integration-e2e-testingshinpr/claude-code-workflows
Defines testing lane boundaries, required annotation patterns, file naming conventions, and route parity review criteria for integration and E2E tests.
714stars - llm-friendly-contextshinpr/claude-code-workflows
Refines prompts, handoffs, and documentation to ensure downstream agents have explicit instructions, clear success criteria, and actionable context.
714stars
dev-skills plugin questions
How do I install the dev-skills plugin?
In Claude Code run /plugin marketplace add shinpr/claude-code-workflows, then /plugin install dev-skills@claude-code-workflows.
What does the dev-skills plugin include?
dev-skills bundles 9 skills.
How do I update or remove the dev-skills plugin?
Update it with claude plugin update dev-skills@claude-code-workflows in your shell, or from the Installed tab of /plugin. Remove it with /plugin uninstall dev-skills@claude-code-workflows.