vpandey-skills

A collection of Claude Code skills (slash commands) for daily engineering, planning, and writing workflows.

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What are skills?

Skills are markdown instruction files that Claude Code loads on demand. Each skill lives in its own folder with a SKILL.md file. When invoked, the skill’s content is injected into the Claude session to guide behavior.

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Setup

1. Prerequisites

• Claude Code CLI installed and configured

2. Clone this repo

git clone  ~/Documents/git_personal/vpandey-skills

3. Register skills

Symlink each skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills

for skill_dir in ~/Documents/git_personal/vpandey-skills/*/; do
  skill_name=$(basename "$skill_dir")
  ln -sf "$skill_dir" ~/.claude/skills/"$skill_name"
done

4. Verify

ls ~/.claude/skills/
# caveman  drawio-diagram  forge  grill-me  humanizer  software-docs  write-a-skill  zoom-out

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Skills

caveman

Ultra-compressed communication. Cuts token usage ~75% by stripping filler while keeping technical accuracy.

/caveman          # default: lite
/caveman full     # classic caveman fragments
/caveman ultra    # maximum compression, arrows for causality

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drawio-diagram

Generates .drawio XML files for any visual — system design, class diagrams, flowcharts, architecture. Open the output by dragging onto app.diagrams.net or in VS Code with the Draw.io Integration extension.

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forge

Life-coach planning skill. Auto-detects mode from the current date.

/forge        # auto: day / week / month
/forge day    # daily review — wins, drains, 3 priorities
/forge week   # Sunday week plan — DSA, system design, article
/forge month  # last-Sunday month plan — campaign check, burnout audit

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grill-me

Relentlessly interviews you about a plan or design, walking every branch of the decision tree. Recommended answer included per question.

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humanizer

Removes AI-generated writing patterns. Runs a two-pass rewrite + self-audit + diff table. Accepts inline text, file paths, or a voice sample for calibration.

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software-docs

Writes high-quality technical and product documents. Interviews you before drafting, surfaces open questions before finalizing.

Supported types: PRD · Design Doc · RFC · ADR · User Guide · Runbook · Release Notes · Changelog · Postmortem

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write-a-skill

Scaffolds a new skill — SKILL.md, optional reference files, optional utility scripts.

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zoom-out

Tells Claude to go up a layer of abstraction and map all relevant modules, callers, and domain vocabulary. Use when unfamiliar with a section of code.

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Adding a new skill

vpandey-skills/
└── my-skill/
    └── SKILL.md

Minimal SKILL.md:

---
name: my-skill
description: What it does. Use when [specific trigger phrase].
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# My Skill

[instructions here]

Then symlink it:

ln -sf ~/Documents/git_personal/vpandey-skills/my-skill ~/.claude/skills/my-skill