Hotwire Club Skills

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Claude skills for building modern web applications with Hotwire (Turbo and Stimulus).

These skills are extracted from the Hotwire Club knowledge base and organized into 6 topic-based skills covering common patterns and best practices.

Available Skills

1. User Experience & Feedback (hwc-ux-feedback)

Implement loading states, progress indicators, optimistic UI, and smooth transitions with Hotwire. Use this skill when building responsive feedback for user actions.

Topics: Turbo Drive, Turbo Frames, loading spinners, progress bars, optimistic UI, page transitions

2. Forms & Validation (hwc-forms-validation)

Handle form submissions, inline editing, real-time validation, and typeahead with Hotwire. Use this skill when building interactive forms.

Topics: Turbo Frames, inline editing, modals, validation, typeahead search, external form controls

3. Navigation & Content Display (hwc-navigation-content)

Build pagination, lazy loading, search, filtering, and tabbed navigation with Hotwire. Use this skill when organizing and displaying content.

Topics: Turbo Drive, Turbo Frames, pagination, lazy loading, tabs, scroll position, cache lifecycle

4. Real-Time & Streaming (hwc-realtime-streaming)

Implement WebSocket updates, live data, custom stream actions, and state synchronization with Hotwire. Use this skill when building real-time features.

Topics: Turbo Streams, WebSockets, custom stream actions, live updates, animations

5. Media & Rich Content (hwc-media-content)

Handle images, video, audio, file uploads, and playback tracking with Hotwire. Use this skill when integrating media and third-party libraries.

Topics: Stimulus, image loading, video/audio playback, file uploads, third-party integrations

6. Stimulus Fundamentals (hwc-stimulus-fundamentals)

Master Stimulus controller patterns including lifecycle hooks, value callbacks, outlets, targets, and events. Use this skill when building Stimulus controllers.

Topics: Stimulus controllers, lifecycle, values, targets, outlets, events, Web APIs

Installation

Using npx skills (Recommended)

The easiest way to install these skills is using the Vercel Skills CLI:

# Install all skills to Claude Code
npx skills add TheHotwireClub/hotwire_club-skills -a claude-code

# List available skills first
npx skills add TheHotwireClub/hotwire_club-skills --list

# Install specific skills only
npx skills add TheHotwireClub/hotwire_club-skills --skill hwc-ux-feedback --skill hwc-forms-validation

# Install to multiple agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)
npx skills add TheHotwireClub/hotwire_club-skills -a claude-code -a cursor

Managing Installed Skills

# List all installed skills
npx skills list

# List skills for a specific agent
npx skills ls -a claude-code

# Remove a skill
npx skills remove hwc-ux-feedback

# Remove from specific agent only
npx skills remove --agent claude-code hwc-ux-feedback

Manual Installation (Claude Desktop)

1. Clone or download this repository to your local machine

2. Copy or symlink the skill directories from skills/ to your Claude skills directory:

   • macOS: ~/.claude/skills/
   • Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\
   • Linux: ~/.claude/skills/

   Each skill is a directory containing SKILL.md, agents/openai.yaml, and a references/ folder:

   # Example: symlink all skills
   ln -s /path/to/hotwire_club-skills/skills/hwc-* ~/.claude/skills/
   

3. Restart Claude Desktop

For Cursor or Other Editors

Copy the desired skill directories from skills/ to your editor’s skills directory. Each skill directory contains SKILL.md, agents/openai.yaml, and a references/ folder with full article content. Refer to your editor’s documentation for the correct location.

Directory Structure

hotwire_club-skills/
├── README.md                       # This file
├── skills/                         # Claude skill directories
│   ├── hwc-ux-feedback/
│   │   ├── SKILL.md                # Skill definition file
│   │   ├── agents/
│   │   │   └── openai.yaml         # UI metadata (display name/default prompt)
│   │   └── references/             # Full articles for this skill
│   ├── hwc-forms-validation/
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   ├── agents/
│   │   │   └── openai.yaml
│   │   └── references/
│   ├── hwc-navigation-content/
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   ├── agents/
│   │   │   └── openai.yaml
│   │   └── references/
│   ├── hwc-realtime-streaming/
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   ├── agents/
│   │   │   └── openai.yaml
│   │   └── references/
│   ├── hwc-media-content/
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   ├── agents/
│   │   │   └── openai.yaml
│   │   └── references/
│   └── hwc-stimulus-fundamentals/
│       ├── SKILL.md
│       ├── agents/
│       │   └── openai.yaml
│       └── references/
├── scripts/
│   └── sync-references.rb          # Script to sync articles from corpus
└── config/
    └── supertopic-mapping.yml      # Article-to-skill mapping

Usage

Once installed, you can invoke these skills in Claude by:

1. Referencing them in your prompts: “Using the hwc-ux-feedback skill, help me implement a loading spinner”
2. Letting Claude detect them: Claude will automatically use relevant skills based on your question
3. Browsing in the skills panel: View available skills and their descriptions in Claude Desktop

Updating

To update the skills with the latest articles from the Hotwire Club corpus:

cd hotwire_club-skills
ruby scripts/sync-references.rb

This will:

• Copy the latest articles from ../hotwire_club-mcp/corpus/ to each skill’s references/ directory
• Update the INDEX.md files for each skill
• Preserve existing SKILL.md and agents/openai.yaml files

After syncing, run the maintenance checklist to keep structure consistent:

1. Keep SKILL.md lean (workflow + guardrails + selective reference loading), with frontmatter containing only name and description.
2. Keep full examples in references/*.md and ensure long references (>100 lines) include ## Table of Contents.
3. Keep agents/openai.yaml present for each skill with display_name, short_description, and default_prompt.
4. Remove stale references to deleted/unsupported articles.
5. Validate no backup artifacts were introduced (*~, .*undo-tree*).

See AGENTS.md for the full repository maintenance workflow.

About Hotwire Club

The Hotwire Club is a comprehensive knowledge base and community for developers building modern web applications with Hotwire. These skills are based on 45+ tutorial articles covering real-world patterns and best practices.

Visit hotwire.club to:

• Access the full knowledge base
• Join the community
• Get support for your Hotwire projects

License

These skills are provided for educational purposes. Original content is from Hotwire Club and subject to their licensing terms.

Contributing

If you find issues or have suggestions for improving these skills, please open an issue or submit a pull request.