Top Skills by Parikshit
Overview
A growing collection of reusable Anthropic Skills and Claude Code plugins I use across Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Claude.ai. Each one captures a workflow I run repeatedly so I don't reinvent it every time. Maintained by @parikshitpruthi (founder, Accelerate AI). - Frontmatter has name and description. The description is "Use when..." — triggering conditions only, no workflow summary (Claude reads it to decide whether to load the skill). - the SKILL.md points to. - — a real run, committed verbatim. - and must match the folder name. - under skills/. All plugins are listed in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json so the repo doubles as an installable marketplace. Restart Claude Code. The skill shows up in your skills list and auto-triggers on matching prompts. Note: the smart-dumb-zone status line must also be wired into your ~/.claude/settings.json statusLine block — Claude Code plugins can't register the main status line themselves. See the plugin README for the one-liner.
README
Skills & Plugins by Parikshit Pruthi
A growing collection of reusable Anthropic Skills and Claude Code plugins I use across Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Claude.ai. Each one captures a workflow I run repeatedly so I don’t reinvent it every time.
Maintained by @parikshitpruthi (founder, Accelerate AI).
Layout
skills/ # Anthropic Skills — each self-contained, symlink into ~/.claude/skills
plugins/ # Claude Code plugins — installable via the marketplace below
Skills
| Skill | What it does | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| blueprint | Turns a coding plan into a single visual, reviewable HTML blueprint — hero summary, file-by-file change blocks, risks — so the plan can be scanned and approved before any code is written. | Planning a feature, refactor, or bugfix; after entering plan mode; when a markdown plan is too long to scan. |
| as-built | After a change ships, verifies it against the original plan in a visual HTML report — what was promised vs what actually shipped, what deviated, what’s missing. | Recapping a build, confirming planned-vs-built, catching scope drift after a feature lands. |
| market-gap-research | Mines X, Reddit, and review sites via Apify to surface product gaps and unmet feature requests, then ships an Instagram carousel / LinkedIn post / research report. | Competitor research, finding SaaS wedges, complaint mining, “what do users wish X did?” |
| handoff | Captures everything in the current session into one self-contained note so a brand-new session can pick up exactly where this one left off — no context lost. | Wrapping up a session, before /clear, switching machines, or parking work to continue later. |
| test-driven-build | Writes the whole test suite first, walks an edge-case taxonomy, then stops at a coverage gate to confirm every edge case is covered before a single line of implementation is allowed. | Building a feature, bugfix, or behavior change where you want the tests — and proof they cover the edge cases — locked in before any code. |
| vertical-lead-pipeline | Builds a signal-ranked B2B lead list for any vertical from an ICP doc: scrapes G2/Capterra via Apify, qualifies against the ICP, enriches via LinkedIn, collects hiring/news/posts signals, and exports one ranked review sheet. Shows cost up front and stops for approval. | Building or refreshing a target-account list for a new vertical, replacing a Clay-style enrichment workflow. |
Plugins
| Plugin | What it does | Provides |
|---|---|---|
| smart-dumb-zone | Status line that shows 🧠 SMART ZONE while context is under 120k input tokens and flips to 🥴 DUMB ZONE past 120k, so you know when to /compact. |
statusline |
| stack-optimizer | Adds /optimize-stack — audits your installed MCP servers, skills, and plugins and recommends what to add, remove, or tune (including context-budget savings). |
/optimize-stack slash command |
More coming.
Repo conventions
Skills — skills//
skills//
├── SKILL.md # Required. YAML frontmatter (name, description) + body.
├── references/ # Optional. Cheatsheets, templates, deep-dives the SKILL.md links to.
└── examples/ # Optional. Real outputs from running the skill — useful as test fixtures.
SKILL.mdis the contract. Frontmatter hasnameanddescription. The description is “Use when…” — triggering conditions only, no workflow summary (Claude reads it to decide whether to load the skill).references/is for reusable artifacts the SKILL.md points to.examples/is for proof — a real run, committed verbatim.- Skill names are kebab-case and must match the folder name.
- One skill per folder under
skills/.
Plugins — plugins//
plugins//
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json # Required. name, description, version, author.
├── commands/ # Optional. Slash commands (*.md).
├── skills/ # Optional. Skills bundled with the plugin.
├── statusline/ | hooks/ | agents/ # Optional. Whatever the plugin provides.
└── README.md # Recommended.
All plugins are listed in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json so the repo doubles as an installable marketplace.
Installing
Skills (Claude Code)
# Clone once
git clone https://github.com/parikshit10/skills.git ~/parikshit-skills
# Symlink the skills you want into your Claude Code skills dir
ln -s ~/parikshit-skills/skills/market-gap-research ~/.claude/skills/market-gap-research
# blueprint + as-built are a pair — plan visually, then verify the build
ln -s ~/parikshit-skills/skills/blueprint ~/.claude/skills/blueprint
ln -s ~/parikshit-skills/skills/as-built ~/.claude/skills/as-built
Restart Claude Code. The skill shows up in your skills list and auto-triggers on matching prompts.
Plugins (Claude Code)
# Add this repo as a plugin marketplace, then install what you want
/plugin marketplace add parikshit10/skills
/plugin install smart-dumb-zone@parikshit-skills
/plugin install stack-optimizer@parikshit-skills
Note: the
smart-dumb-zonestatus line must also be wired into your~/.claude/settings.jsonstatusLineblock — Claude Code plugins can’t register the main status line themselves. See the plugin README for the one-liner.
Claude Desktop / Claude.ai
Skill folders can be uploaded as a project. Drag a skills/ folder into a Claude Project and the agent loads SKILL.md along with its references.
Contributing / using these yourself
These are personal skills and plugins tuned for my workflow, but most are general enough to fork. PRs welcome if you spot bugs in the workflow logic or want to add platforms / alternatives.
If you fork, swap out the voice/aesthetic notes in each skill (mine are tuned for @parikshitpruthi and @parikshitbuilds).
License
MIT. See LICENSE.
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Install
npx skillfish add parikshit10/skills