Expert Architecture Decision Record (ADR) creation and lifecycle management based on Olaf Zimmermann's methodology. Use when creating ADRs, reviewing architectural decisions, evaluating decision readiness, writing MADR templates, assessing decision quality, or managing ADR logs. Covers the full lifecycle from readiness (START criteria) through creation, MADR formatting, completion (ECADR criteria), and ongoing maintenance.
npx skills add https://github.com/ncklrs/startup-os-skills --skill adr
Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.
Structured manuscript/grant review with checklist-based evaluation. Use when writing formal peer reviews with specific criteria methodology assessment, statistical validity, reporting standards compliance (CONSORT/STROBE), and constructive feedback. Best for actual review writing, manuscript revision. For evaluating claims/evidence quality use scientific-critical-thinking; for quantitative scoring frameworks use scholar-evaluation.
Agile product ownership toolkit for Senior Product Owner including INVEST-compliant user story generation, sprint planning, backlog management, and velocity tracking. Use for story writing, sprint planning, stakeholder communication, and agile ceremonies.
Expert guidance for writing secure, reliable, and performant Claude Code hooks - validates design decisions, enforces best practices, and prevents common pitfalls. Use when creating, reviewing, or debugging Claude Code hooks.
Use when creating or developing anything, before writing code or implementation plans - refines rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured Socratic questioning, alternative exploration, and incremental validation
Structured manuscript/grant review with checklist-based evaluation. Use when writing formal peer reviews with specific criteria methodology assessment, statistical validity, reporting standards compliance (CONSORT/STROBE), and constructive feedback. Best for actual review writing, manuscript revision. For evaluating claims/evidence quality use scientific-critical-thinking; for quantitative scoring frameworks use scholar-evaluation.
Conducts structured requirements workshops to produce feature specifications, user stories, EARS-format functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation checklists. Use when defining new features, gathering requirements, or writing specifications. Invoke for feature definition, requirements gathering, user stories, EARS format specs, PRDs, acceptance criteria, or requirement matrices.
Use markdown formatting when drafting content intended for external systems (GitHub issues/PRs, Jira tickets, wiki pages, design docs, etc.) so formatting is preserved when the user copies it. Load this skill before producing any draft the user will paste elsewhere.
Take ncklrs/adr from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
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.