What are Claude Code Skills?

Claude Code Skills are reusable prompt templates stored as markdown files in your project's .claude/skills/ directory. They let you codify best practices and common workflows into slash commands that Claude follows consistently.

How do I create a Claude Code Skill?

Create a markdown file in .claude/skills/ with instructions for Claude. The filename becomes the command name — for example, .claude/skills/code-review.md can be invoked with /code-review during a Claude Code session.

Can I share skills with my team?

Yes. Skills stored in .claude/skills/ can be committed to version control so every team member has access to the same standardized workflows. You can also organize skills into subdirectories by category.

What is the difference between project and global skills?

Project skills (.claude/skills/) are specific to the current project and are committed to git. Global skills (~/.claude/skills/) are personal skills available across all your projects.

dot-claude

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24Community RegistryGeneralby Sawyer Middeleer

An actually useful collection of extensions for Claude Agent (Claude Code) - focused on non-programming tasks

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Overview

A unified plugin for Claude Code with actually useful skills, agents, and commands - focused on research, analysis, and skill creation.

Installation

Add the marketplace to your Claude Code instance:

claude

/plugin marketplace add Sawyer-Middeleer/dot-claude

Then install the plugin:

claude

/plugin install dot-claude

That's it! You now have access to all commands, skills, and agents.

What's Included

Commands

Conducts comprehensive research on complex topics with technical rigor, synthesizing multiple sources including academic papers, technical documentation, industry reports, and practitioner insights.

Features:

•Structured clarification dialog for research parameters
•Automated source analysis via research-analyst subagent
•Produces comprehensive documentation with proper citations

Usage:

claude

/deep-research [your topic]

Output:

•plan.md - Research strategy and angles
•synthesis.md - Thematic analysis with citations
•summaries/ - Individual source analyses

Skills

Creates high-quality Claude skills following official best practices, with quality-of-life improvements. Includes guided scoping dialog, progressive disclosure patterns, and quality validation.

Conducts in-depth analysis of specific sources, producing comprehensive summaries for research synthesis. Creates detailed, information-dense summaries suitable for integration into larger research projects.

Note: This skill is primarily used by the research-analyst agent within the /deep-research command workflow.

Agents

Expert research analyst that investigates specific sources as part of larger research projects. Performs deep analysis and creates comprehensive summaries.

Technical details:

•Model: Haiku (optimized for speed and cost)
•Skills: analyzing-source
•Permission Mode: default

Note: This agent is automatically spawned by the /deep-research command for parallel source analysis.

How It Works Together

The plugin provides an integrated research system:

`/deep-research` command - User-facing interface that orchestrates the research workflow
`research-analyst` agent - Spawned in parallel to analyze individual sources
`analyzing-source` skill - Provides the analysis framework used by research-analyst
`creating-skills` skill - Meta-skill for creating new Claude Code skills

All components work together seamlessly as part of a single plugin.

Example Workflow

claude

/deep-research distributed systems scaling patterns

# Claude will:
# 1. Ask clarifying questions about research goals and preferences
# 2. Create a research plan with defined angles
# 3. Spawn multiple research-analyst agents in parallel
# 4. Each agent uses analyzing-source to create detailed summaries
# 5. Synthesize findings into thematic analysis
# 6. Deliver comprehensive research documentation

Install & Usage

Create the skills directory

mkdir -p .claude/skills

Download the skill file

mkdir -p .claude/skills && curl -o .claude/skills/dot-claude.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sawyer-Middeleer/dot-claude/main/SKILL.md

Invoke in Claude Code

/dot-claude

View source on GitHub

agentresearchanalysisskillsagentsproductivity

Frequently Asked Questions

What is dot-claude?

An actually useful collection of extensions for Claude Agent (Claude Code) - focused on non-programming tasks

How to install dot-claude?

To install dot-claude, create the .claude/skills directory in your project, then run the curl command to download the skill file. Once installed, invoke it in Claude Code with /dot-claude.

What is dot-claude best for?

dot-claude is a community categorized under General. It is designed for: agent, research, analysis, skills, agents, productivity. Created by Sawyer Middeleer.