Development Claude Skills
8 673 development skills from 759 authors. They write and change code. Half of them fit into 1 830 tokens or less — that is what one costs your context window when the agent loads it. 1 213 ship runnable scripts rather than instructions alone. 42 of them cannot work without an MCP server, most often rube. We also found 1 239 copies of these same skills sitting in other people's repositories — counted once here, not 1 239 times.
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Dead code removal via parallel scanning, reference verification, batch execution, and atomic commits. You are the ORCHESTRATOR — you scan, verify, batch, then delegate ALL removals.
Identify, analyze, and manage software dependencies before deployment. Use this skill when preparing applications for deployment, resolving dependency conflicts, updating dependencies, auditing security vulnerabilities, managing package versions, or troubleshooting dependency-related issues. Supports multiple package managers (npm, pip, maven, cargo, go mod, composer) and provides actionable recommendations for dependency management.
Identify and replace deprecated API usage in source code with modern alternatives. Use when: (1) Modernizing legacy codebases, (2) Upgrading framework versions (React, Django, Spring, etc.), (3) Fixing deprecation warnings in build output, (4) Preparing for major version upgrades, (5) Ensuring code uses current best practices. Supports Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, and other major languages with both AST-based detection and pattern matching for accurate identification and automated replacement with validation.
Recommends appropriate software design patterns based on problem descriptions, requirements, or code scenarios. Use when designing software architecture, refactoring code, solving common design problems, or choosing between design approaches. Analyzes the problem context and suggests suitable creational, structural, behavioral, architectural, or concurrency patterns with implementation guidance and trade-off analysis.
Generate targeted test inputs to reach specific code paths and hard-to-reach behaviors in Python code. Use when: (1) Targeting uncovered branches or specific execution paths, (2) Need coverage-guided test generation, (3) Want to leverage LLM understanding of code semantics for meaningful test inputs, (4) Testing boundary conditions and edge cases systematically, (5) Combining symbolic reasoning with fuzzing. Provides path analysis, constraint solving, coverage-guided strategies, and LLM-driven semantic generation for comprehensive test input creation.
Automatically identify potential boundary and exception cases from requirements, specifications, or existing code, and generate comprehensive test cases targeting boundary conditions, edge cases, and uncommon scenarios. Use this skill when analyzing programs, code repositories, functions, or APIs to discover and test corner cases, null handling, overflow conditions, empty inputs, concurrent access patterns, and other exceptional scenarios that are often missed in standard testing.
Generate setup scripts and instructions for development environments across platforms. Use when: (1) Setting up new development machines (Python, Node.js, Docker, databases), (2) Creating automated setup scripts for team onboarding, (3) Need cross-platform setup instructions (macOS, Linux, Windows), (4) Installing development tools and dependencies, (5) Configuring version managers and package managers. Provides executable setup scripts, platform-specific guides, and tool installation instructions.
Explains test failures and provides actionable debugging guidance. Use when tests fail (unit, integration, E2E), builds fail, or code throws errors. Analyzes error messages, stack traces, and test output to identify root causes and suggest concrete fixes. Handles pytest, jest, junit, mocha, vitest, selenium, cypress, playwright, and other testing frameworks across Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Go, and other languages.
Selectively instruments code to capture runtime data for debugging failures and bugs. Use when investigating crashes, exceptions, unexpected behavior, test failures, or performance issues. Analyzes stack traces and error messages to identify suspicious code regions, then adds targeted logging, tracing, and assertions to capture variable values, execution paths, timing, and conditional branches. Supports Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, and C/C++.
Identifies non-deterministic or unreliable tests through static code analysis and test result analysis. Use when Claude needs to find flaky tests, analyze test reliability, or investigate intermittent test failures. Supports Python (pytest, unittest) and Java (JUnit, TestNG) test frameworks. Trigger when users mention "flaky tests", "intermittent failures", "non-deterministic tests", "unreliable tests", or ask to "find flaky tests", "analyze test stability", or "why tests fail randomly".
Generate formal specifications (definitions, predicates, invariants, pre/post-conditions) in Isabelle/HOL or Coq from informal requirements, source code, pseudocode, or mathematical descriptions. Use when users need to: (1) Formalize algorithms or data structures, (2) Create function specifications with contracts, (3) Generate predicates and properties for verification, (4) Translate informal requirements into formal logic, (5) Specify invariants for loops or data structures, or (6) Create formal definitions for mathematical concepts. Supports both Isabelle/HOL and Coq equally.
Automatically migrate Python web applications between frameworks (Flask → FastAPI, Django → FastAPI). Use when you need to migrate an existing web application to a modern framework while preserving functionality. The skill analyzes the codebase, updates routes, handlers, configuration, dependency injection patterns, and tests. Creates git commits for each migration phase and generates a comprehensive summary of all changes. Supports automatic dependency updates, code transformations, and test adaptations.
Automatically performs git bisect to identify the first bad commit that introduced a bug or failure. Use when debugging regressions, tracking down when a test started failing, or identifying which commit broke functionality. Handles flaky tests with retry logic and provides comprehensive reports with bisect logs and confidence levels.
Generate randomized and edge-case inputs to detect unexpected failures, bugs, and security vulnerabilities through fuzz testing. Use when creating test cases for robustness testing, generating adversarial inputs, testing error handling, finding edge cases, or security testing. Produces Python test code with fuzzing inputs for strings, numbers, and structured data focusing on edge cases, invalid inputs, and random valid inputs. Triggers when users ask to generate fuzz tests, create randomized test inputs, test edge cases, find bugs through fuzzing, or generate adversarial test cases.
Git expert combining atomic commits, rebase/squash, and history search (blame, bisect, log -S). Use for any git operations requiring structured commit strategies, history rewriting, or code archaeology. Triggers: 'commit', 'rebase', 'squash', 'who wrote', 'when was X added', 'find the commit that'.
Generate complete, production-ready functions and classes from formal specifications, design descriptions, type signatures, or natural language requirements. Use this skill when implementing APIs from specifications, creating data structures from schemas, building classes from UML diagrams, generating code from contracts, or translating design documents into code. Supports multiple programming languages and follows language-specific best practices.
Unified GitHub triage for issues AND PRs. Classifies open items, answers questions from codebase, analyzes bugs, reviews PRs, and produces a structured triage report. Triggers: 'triage', 'triage issues', 'triage PRs', 'github triage'.
Extract abstract mathematical models from imperative code (C, C++, Python, Java, etc.) suitable for formal reasoning in Coq. Use when the user asks to model imperative code in Coq, create Coq specifications from imperative programs, extract mathematical models for verification, or translate imperative algorithms to Coq for formal reasoning and proof.
Incrementally implement new features in Java repositories from natural language descriptions. Use when adding functionality to existing Java codebases (Maven or Gradle projects). Takes a feature description as input and outputs modified repository with implementation code, corresponding JUnit tests, and verification that all tests pass. Supports method additions, new class creation, and method modifications with proper Java conventions.
Takes a Python repository and natural language feature description as input, implements the feature with proper code placement, generates comprehensive tests, and ensures all tests pass. Use when Claude needs to: (1) Add new features to existing Python projects, (2) Implement functions, classes, or modules based on requirements, (3) Modify existing code to add functionality, (4) Generate unit and integration tests for new code, (5) Fix failing tests after implementation, (6) Ensure code follows existing patterns and conventions.
Generates hierarchical context files (CLAUDE.md) throughout a project directory tree, providing AI agents with directory-specific knowledge for better code understanding. Use when setting up a new project for AI-assisted development.
Verify that interface and class contracts (preconditions, postconditions, invariants) are preserved across program versions. Use when validating refactorings, checking API compatibility, verifying design-by-contract implementations, or ensuring behavioral contracts remain intact after code changes. Automatically detects contract violations, identifies affected methods and classes, and provides actionable guidance for resolving violations while maintaining program correctness.
Profile programs at the function/method level to identify performance hotspots, bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities. Records execution time, memory usage, and call frequency for each interval. Generates actionable recommendations and visualizations. Use when users need to (1) analyze program performance, (2) identify slow functions or bottlenecks, (3) optimize execution time or memory usage, (4) profile Python, Java, or C/C++ programs with test cases or workload scenarios, or (5) generate performance reports with flame graphs and recommendations.
Automatically infer loop invariants for code verification and correctness proofs. Use when analyzing loops to identify properties that hold throughout execution, generating assertions for verification, proving loop correctness, or documenting loop behavior. Supports Python, Java, C/C++, and language-agnostic analysis. Generates invariants as code assertions (assert statements). Triggers when users ask to infer invariants, find loop properties, generate loop assertions, prove loop correctness, or verify loop behavior.
Produces comprehensive summaries and insights about legacy codebases to help understand unfamiliar code. Use when onboarding to a new project, planning refactoring efforts, assessing code for acquisition/migration, or generating documentation for undocumented systems. Analyzes architecture, dependencies, code quality issues, and test coverage. Creates high-level overviews with architecture diagrams, key components, entry points, and actionable insights for understanding and improving legacy code.
Automatically generate clear, actionable issue reports from failing tests and repository analysis. Analyze test failures to understand expected vs. actual behavior, identify affected code components, and produce well-structured Markdown reports suitable for GitHub Issues or similar trackers. Use when a test fails, when debugging issues, or when the user asks to create an issue report, generate a bug report, or document a test failure.
Validate API consistency between two versions of Java libraries. Use when you need to compare API behavior, signatures, and exceptions between Java library versions to identify breaking changes, incompatible modifications, and behavior differences. The skill performs static analysis of Java code, compares method signatures, class definitions, interface changes, parameter types, return types, exception declarations, and generates a detailed JSON report with breaking changes, warnings, and migration guidance. Supports Java libraries and packages.
Recommend relevant Isabelle/HOL or Coq standard library theories, lemmas, and tactics based on proof goals. Use when: (1) Users need library lemmas for their proof, (2) Proof goals match standard library patterns, (3) Users ask what libraries to import, (4) Specific lemmas are needed for list/set/arithmetic operations, (5) Users are stuck and need to know what library support exists, or (6) Guidance on find_theorems/Search commands is needed. Supports both Isabelle/HOL and Coq standard libraries.
Automatically identify metamorphic properties (symmetry, linearity, additivity, input invariances) from programs or functions. Use when generating metamorphic tests, discovering program properties, validating transformations, or creating test oracles without explicit specifications. Analyzes control flow, data flow, and sample executions to output structured properties for metamorphic test generation and verification.
Automatically repair code violations of temporal properties using model-checking counterexamples as guidance. Use when working with formal verification results, temporal logic property violations (LTL, CTL), model checking counterexamples, or when asked to repair property violations, fix counterexamples, repair temporal properties, fix model checking violations, or repair code based on counterexamples. Applicable to concurrent systems, state machines, synchronization issues, safety/liveness properties, and resource management violations.
Enforces strict modular code architecture: SRP, no monolithic index files, no catch-all utils, 200 LOC hard limit. This rule is NON-NEGOTIABLE. Violations BLOCK all further work until resolved.
Generates complete modules and components from interface contracts and specifications. Use when Claude needs to build larger software components, implement interfaces, create service layers, or generate complete modules with multiple related classes. Supports Python (with type hints and protocols) and Java (with interfaces and abstract classes). Trigger when users request "implement this interface", "generate a module for", "create a service layer", "build a component that implements", or provide interface definitions that need implementation.
Translate source code between programming languages at function, class, and module levels while preserving behavior and generating verification tests. Use when translating code from one language to another (e.g., "translate this Python module to JavaScript", "convert this Java class to C#", "port this code to Go and generate tests"), migrating codebases between languages, or creating equivalent implementations across different technology stacks. Handles idiom adaptation, standard library mappings, and test generation.
Generate Isabelle or Coq proofs establishing partial or total correctness of imperative programs from code and formal specifications. Use when users need to: (1) Prove program correctness using Hoare logic, (2) Generate verification conditions from pre/postconditions, (3) Construct loop invariants and termination arguments, (4) Verify imperative programs with assignments, conditionals, and loops. Supports both partial correctness (if terminates, postcondition holds) and total correctness (terminates and postcondition holds) for both Isabelle/HOL and Coq.
Extract abstract mathematical models from functional code (Haskell, OCaml, F#) for formal reasoning in Isabelle/HOL. Use when users need to: (1) Convert functional programs to Isabelle definitions, (2) Extract high-level algorithm essence from implementation code, (3) Generate formal specifications and properties from code, (4) Create verification-ready models that capture mathematical properties while abstracting away implementation details. Focuses on structural recursion, algebraic data types, higher-order functions, and invariant extraction.
Automatically generate TLA+ specifications from program code, repositories, or system implementations. Use when asked to generate TLA+ spec, create TLA+ specification from code, convert program to TLA+, formalize system in TLA+, extract TLA+ model from code, or when working with formal specification of concurrent systems, distributed systems, protocols, algorithms, or state machines that need to be verified.
Generate executable code together with formal proofs certifying safety and correctness properties in Isabelle/HOL or Coq. Use when building verified software, safety-critical systems, or when formal guarantees are required. Produces code with accompanying proofs for memory safety, bounds checking, functional correctness, invariant preservation, and termination. Supports extraction to OCaml/Haskell/SML and integration with existing codebases.
Extract programming-language-agnostic pseudocode from source code in any language, preserving control flow and logical structure while filtering out implementation details. Use when the user asks to convert code to pseudocode, abstract code logic, understand code structure without syntax, create language-independent documentation, or analyze algorithmic flow without language-specific details.
Generate structured proof skeletons with tactics, strategies, and intermediate lemmas for theorems in Isabelle/HOL or Coq. Use when users need to: (1) Create proof outlines for theorem statements, (2) Generate proof structure with tactic placeholders, (3) Identify key lemmas needed for a proof, (4) Plan proof strategies (induction, case analysis, forward/backward reasoning), (5) Scaffold proofs with intermediate steps and subgoals, or (6) Convert theorem statements into detailed proof templates. Supports both Isabelle/HOL and Coq equally.
Converts pseudocode descriptions and algorithm specifications into complete, executable Java code. Use this skill when you need to implement algorithms from pseudocode, translate algorithm descriptions to Java, generate Java code from specifications, convert textbook algorithms to working code, or create executable implementations from high-level descriptions. Preserves logic and control flow while handling Java idioms, data structures, and includes test cases for verification.
Convert pseudocode, algorithm descriptions, or specifications into complete, executable Python code. Handles natural language descriptions, structured pseudocode, and formal algorithm specifications. Generates production-ready code with type hints, docstrings, error handling, and test cases. Use when users need to (1) convert pseudocode to Python, (2) implement algorithms from descriptions, (3) translate algorithm specifications to code, (4) generate Python implementations from textbook pseudocode, or (5) create executable code from high-level algorithm designs.
Validate API consistency between two versions of Python libraries. Use when you need to compare API behavior, signatures, and exceptions between library versions to identify breaking changes, incompatible modifications, and behavior differences. The skill performs static analysis of Python code, compares function signatures, class definitions, parameter types, return types, and generates a detailed JSON report with breaking changes, warnings, and migration guidance. Supports Python libraries and packages.
Automatically generates regression tests for Python codebases by analyzing changes between old and new code versions and their existing tests. Migrates tests to work with new code, generates tests for new functionality, and creates mocks for external dependencies. Supports unittest and pytest frameworks. Use when refactoring code, adding features, or ensuring backward compatibility.
Updates Python test code to work with new versions of the code being tested. Use when Claude needs to: (1) Update tests after code changes, (2) Fix broken tests due to signature changes, (3) Update assertions to match new behavior, (4) Add test cases for new functionality, (5) Analyze code differences and their test impact, (6) Run tests and fix failures based on error messages. Takes old code, new code, and old tests as input, outputs updated tests that pass.
Quickly analyzes Python repositories to understand their purpose, structure, and setup requirements. Use when Claude needs to onboard to a new Python codebase, understand project structure, identify entry points, determine dependencies, or generate setup instructions. Trigger when users ask to "analyze this Python repo", "understand this codebase", "how do I run this project", "what does this repo do", or provide a Python repository path for quick start guidance.
Translate Python programs into equivalent Dafny code, preserving program semantics and ensuring the generated code is well-typed, executable, and verifiable. Use when the user asks to convert Python code to Dafny, port Python programs to Dafny, add formal verification to Python code, or create Dafny versions of Python algorithms with specifications.
Generate comprehensive, user-friendly README.md files for code repositories. Use when creating documentation for new projects, updating existing READMEs, or improving project onboarding. Produces READMEs with project introduction, prerequisites, environment setup, executable usage instructions, and repository structure overview. Supports application projects, libraries, and research codebases.
Translate Python programs to equivalent Lean4 code while preserving semantics and ensuring type safety. Use when users ask to convert, translate, or port Python code to Lean4, or when they need to verify Python algorithms using Lean4's theorem proving capabilities. Handles functions, classes, data structures, control flow, and ensures the generated Lean4 code is well-typed, executable, and can successfully run.