ae-skills
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This is the ae-skills project — a collection of production-grade engineering skills for AE (Application Engineers) in the embedded systems space. Covers firmware development, RTOS-based design, peripheral drivers, and embedded debugging. Built for engineers working with GCC, Arm toolchains, RTOS (Zephyr/FreeRTOS), BMS, Bluetooth, and other embedded technologies. Define: interview-me, idea-refine, spec-driven-development Plan: planning-and-task-breakdown Build: incremental-implementation, test-driven-development, context-engineering, source-driven-development, doubt-driven-development, api-and-interface-design Verify: debugging-and-error-recovery Review: code-review-and-quality, code-simplification, security-and-hardening, performance-optimization Ship: git-workflow-and-versioning, ci-cd-and-automation, deprecation-and-migration, documentation-and-adrs, shipping-and-launch Embedded: embedded-debugging, rtos-and-concurrency, peripheral-driver-design, embedded-build-and-toolchain
In this repository26 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- api-and-interface-designSkill
- ci-cd-and-automationSkill
- code-review-and-qualitySkill
- code-simplificationSkill
- context-engineeringSkill
- debugging-and-error-recoverySkill
- deprecation-and-migrationSkill
- documentation-and-adrsSkill
- doubt-driven-developmentSkill
- embedded-build-and-toolchainSkill
- embedded-debuggingSkill
- git-workflow-and-versioningSkill
- idea-refineSkill
- incremental-implementationSkill
- interview-meSkill
- performance-optimizationSkill
- peripheral-driver-designSkill
- planning-and-task-breakdownSkill
- rtos-and-concurrencySkill
- security-and-hardeningSkill
- shipping-and-launchSkill
- source-driven-developmentSkill
- spec-driven-developmentSkill
- test-driven-developmentSkill
- using-ae-skillsSkill
The file
We split this CLAUDE.md into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 4 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 28
Every skill lives in skills/<name>/SKILL.md
- Distinctive: line 31
Every skill has: Overview, When to Use, Process, Common Rationalizations, Red Flags, Verification
- Distinctive: line 42
Always: Follow the skill-anatomy.md format for new skills
- Distinctive: line 43
Never: Add skills that are vague advice instead of actionable processes
- Distinctive: line 44
Never: Duplicate content between skills — reference other skills instead
≈ “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.
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ae-skills
This is the ae-skills project — a collection of production-grade engineering skills for AE (Application Engineers) in the embedded systems space. Covers firmware development, RTOS-based design, peripheral drivers, and embedded debugging. Built for engineers working with GCC, Arm toolchains, RTOS (Zephyr/FreeRTOS), BMS, Bluetooth, and other embedded technologies.
Project Structure
skills/ → Core skills (SKILL.md per directory)
agents/ → Reusable agent personas (code-reviewer, test-engineer, security-auditor)
hooks/ → Session lifecycle hooks
.claude/commands/ → Slash commands (/spec, /plan, /build, /test, /review, /code-simplify, /ship)
references/ → Supplementary checklists (testing, performance, security, accessibility)
docs/ → Setup guides for different toolsSkills by Phase
Define: interview-me, idea-refine, spec-driven-development Plan: planning-and-task-breakdown Build: incremental-implementation, test-driven-development, context-engineering, source-driven-development, doubt-driven-development, api-and-interface-design Verify: debugging-and-error-recovery Review: code-review-and-quality, code-simplification, security-and-hardening, performance-optimization Ship: git-workflow-and-versioning, ci-cd-and-automation, deprecation-and-migration, documentation-and-adrs, shipping-and-launch Embedded: embedded-debugging, rtos-and-concurrency, peripheral-driver-design, embedded-build-and-toolchain
Conventions
- Every skill lives in
skills/<name>/SKILL.md - YAML frontmatter with
nameanddescriptionfields - Description starts with what the skill does (third person), followed by trigger conditions ("Use when...")
- Every skill has: Overview, When to Use, Process, Common Rationalizations, Red Flags, Verification
- References are in
references/, not inside skill directories - Supporting files only created when content exceeds 100 lines
Commands
npm test— Not applicable (this is a documentation project)- Validate: Check that all SKILL.md files have valid YAML frontmatter with name and description
Boundaries
- Always: Follow the skill-anatomy.md format for new skills
- Never: Add skills that are vague advice instead of actionable processes
- Never: Duplicate content between skills — reference other skills instead
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