Readme Badger

jamie-bitflight/readme-badger

Badge design and selection knowledge base for shields.io badges in README files. Use when writing or updating READMEs, choosing badge layouts, selecting badge styles, adding project health indicators, or picking Simple Icons logo slugs. Covers shields.io URL encoding rules, static vs dynamic badge selection, style variants (flat/flat-square/for-the-badge/social/plastic), layout patterns (two-tier/inline/centered), project-type badge sets for Python/JS/Rust/Claude plugins, color reference, non-obvious logo slugs, and common anti-patterns to avoid.

138k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills --skill readme-badger

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take jamie-bitflight/readme-badger from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.