dotclaude is an actively maintained collection of 29 opinionated agent skills for planning, auditing, shipping, and improving software.

How do I install dotclaude skills?

Install jhostalek-skills from the JHostalek/dotclaude marketplace in Claude Code or Codex. You can also clone the repository and copy or symlink individual skill directories.

Do dotclaude skills work with tools other than Claude Code?

Yes. The skills are packaged for Claude Code and Codex and can also be used by tools that read SKILL.md files.

dotclaude — Opinionated Agent Skills for Claude Code and Codex

29 Skills

Build

sparring	pressure-test a proposal before committing
design	explore alternatives with independent reasoning agents
plan	produce an implementation-ready design document

Quality

judge	independent expert review before accepting work
audit	full baseline audit sweep in parallel worktrees
audit-necessity	cut code that does not earn its keep
audit-structure	fix misplaced files and leaky boundaries
audit-patterns	unify divergent implementations
audit-correctness	find logic and boundary bugs
audit-error-handling	find swallowed errors and resource leaks
audit-contracts	check API and integration compatibility
audit-data-integrity	check invariants, writes, and migrations
audit-reliability	check retries, recovery, and shutdown
audit-logs	fix noisy or missing observability
audit-perf	find N+1s and blocking hot paths
audit-security	find injection, auth, and secrets issues
audit-tests	cut weak tests and close real gaps
audit-complexity	reduce code and accidental complexity
audit-comments	strip stale comments and docstrings
ux	UI evaluation across Nielsen's heuristics

Ship

commit	conventional commits + push
pr	create or update a reviewable PR
merge	merge branches and resolve conflicts
rebase	rebase branch onto target, resolve conflicts
timesheet	monthly work summary from git

Improve

prompt	create and refine LLM system prompts
transformer	rewrite skills for reasoning model performance
design-refiner	turn UI requests into expert design briefs
writing-identity	rewrite communication in the author's voice

Install

# Codex
codex plugin marketplace add JHostalek/dotclaude
codex plugin add jhostalek-skills@jhostalek

# Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add JHostalek/dotclaude
/plugin install jhostalek-skills@jhostalek

# Editable standalone skills
git clone git@github.com:JHostalek/dotclaude.git ~/dotclaude
ln -s ~/dotclaude/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/