Agentic Layer Starter Kit

A hands-on starter kit for engineers who want to unlock the full power of Claude Code.

Stop using Claude Code as a fancy autocomplete. Start building your own agentic layer — custom commands, skills, hooks, and agents that compound your productivity over time.

This repo gives you working examples to learn from, a structure to build on, and a launchpad for making Claude Code truly yours.

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Why This Exists

Claude Code ships with powerful extension points — commands, skills, hooks, and agents — but most engineers never touch them. The docs explain what they are, but not how to think about them or where to start.

This starter kit bridges that gap. It includes:

• Real, working examples you can run today
• A clean directory structure that follows Claude Code conventions
• Room to grow so you can add your own tools as you learn

The goal is simple: get comfortable, experiment, and iterate your way toward an agentic layer that fits how you work.

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What’s Inside

.claude/
├── commands/          # Slash commands you can invoke with /
│   ├── prime.md           → /prime — Orient yourself in any codebase
│   ├── commit-pro.md      → /commit-pro — Professional conventional commits
│   └── youtube-transcribe.md → /youtube-transcribe — Extract video transcripts
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├── skills/            # Complex, multi-step capabilities
│   └── deep-research/
│       └── SKILL.md       → Deep parallel research across multiple sources
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├── hooks/             # Event-driven automations
│   └── git_safety_guard.py  → Blocks destructive git/filesystem commands
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├── settings.json      # Hook wiring and project-level config
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└── agents/            # Custom agent definitions (your turn)

ai_docs/               # Reference material loaded as context
├── README.md              → URLs to fetch as runtime context
└── backend-project-ideas.md → 20 portfolio-ready project ideas

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Included Examples

Commands

Skills

Hooks