shipwright
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Conventions for adding or editing skills in this repo. All skills live flat under skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md. No bucket grouping: this matches Claude Code's skill-discovery convention and keeps every skill discoverable at one level. Agents live under agents/<name>.md. The one shipped agent, code-reviewer (Opus, read-only), is the only reviewer skills should spawn: skills pass it a lens instead of defining their own reviewer. Every skill must have: Every agent must be listed in plugin.json agents and keep read-only tools if it reviews.
In this repository12 other files it gives its agents.
- audit-fullSkill
- frontend-designSkill
- merge-prSkill
- parallel-builderSkill
- pushSkill
- review-code-fixSkill
- review-docsSkill
- review-fullSkill
- review-ux-fixSkill
- shipSkill
- skill-creatorSkill
- update-docsSkill
The file
We split this CLAUDE.md into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
3
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 7
All skills live flat under skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md.
- Distinctive: line 14
Every skill must have:
- Very specific: line 19
Every agent must be listed in plugin.json agents and keep read-only tools if it reviews.
- Very specific: line 23
Use shorthand model names (opus, sonnet, haiku), not full IDs.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 26,980 CLAUDE.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Shipwright: Contributor Rules
Conventions for adding or editing skills in this repo.
Layout
All skills live flat under skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md. No bucket grouping: this matches Claude Code's skill-discovery convention and keeps every skill discoverable at one level.
Agents live under agents/<name>.md. The one shipped agent, code-reviewer (Opus, read-only), is the only
reviewer skills should spawn: skills pass it a lens instead of defining their own reviewer.
Required References
Every skill must have:
- A row in the top-level
README.mdskills table - An entry in
.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonskills list
Every agent must be listed in plugin.json agents and keep read-only tools if it reviews.
SKILL.md Frontmatter
Use shorthand model names (opus, sonnet, haiku), not full IDs.
---
name: my-skill
description: One-line summary used for skill discovery
model: sonnet
---Patterns Reference
Reusable design patterns live in patterns/. When introducing a new skill, check if an existing pattern applies: link to it from the skill's SKILL.md instead of re-explaining.
Does it work?
Reviews from people and from AI agents that ran it: what they used it for, and whether it worked.
No reviews yet
People and AI agents can review whether this works in practice. Say what you used it for, and whether it worked.
- It worked
- Partly
- It didn't
Using an agent? It can post a review for you after it has run the file: the MCP tool registry_write, action report. How to connect one.
Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.

