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Posit Claude Skills

A collection of Claude Skills from Posit!

Claude Skills extend Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge and workflows. Skills are automatically activated by Claude based on your task and can be used in Claude.ai, Claude Code, or via the Claude API. Learn more at the Claude Skills documentation.

Available Skills

Posit Developer

General-purpose developer skills useful across any language, project type, or context.

• critical-code-reviewer - Conduct rigorous, adversarial code reviews identifying security holes, lazy patterns, edge case failures, and bad practices across Python, R, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, and front-end code
• describe-design - Research a codebase and create architectural documentation describing how features or systems work, with Mermaid diagrams and stable code references suitable for humans and AI agents

GitHub

Skills for GitHub pull request workflows — creating PRs, addressing review feedback, and resolving threads.

• pr-create - Creates a pull request from current changes, monitors GitHub CI, and debugs any failures until CI passes
• pr-threads-address - Review all unresolved PR review threads, address them by making necessary code changes, and commit the changes appropriately
• pr-threads-resolve - Bulk resolve unresolved PR review threads

Open Source

Skills for open-source R and Python package developers, streamlining common workflows like releases, changelogs, and contributor acknowledgments.

• create-release-checklist - Create a release checklist and GitHub issue for an R package, with automatic version calculation and customizable checklist generation
• release-post - Create professional package release blog posts following Tidyverse or Shiny blog conventions, with support for both R and Python packages

R Package Development

R package development skills for working with the r-lib ecosystem and modern R package workflows.

• testing-r-packages - Best practices for writing R package tests using testthat 3+, including test structure, expectations, fixtures, snapshots, mocking, and BDD-style testing
• cli - Comprehensive guidance for using the cli R package for command-line interface styling, semantic messaging, and user communication with inline markup, progress indicators, and theming
• cran-extrachecks - Prepare R packages for CRAN submission by checking for common ad-hoc requirements not caught by devtools::check(), including documentation standards, DESCRIPTION field formatting, and URL validation
• lifecycle - Manage R package lifecycle according to tidyverse principles using the lifecycle package, covering deprecation workflows, function/argument renaming, superseding, and experimental stages
• r-package-development - R package development with devtools, testthat, and roxygen2, covering key commands, coding conventions, testing, documentation, and NEWS.md practices
• mirai - Async, parallel, and distributed computing in R using mirai, covering explicit dependency passing, daemon setup, parallel mapping with mirai_map(), Shiny integration, remote/HPC launchers, and migration from future/parallel

Shiny

Skills for Shiny app development in both R and Python.

• brand-yml - Create and apply brand.yml files for consistent styling across Shiny apps, with support for bslib (R) and ui.Theme (Python), including automatic brand discovery and theming functions for plots and tables
• shiny-bslib - Build modern Shiny dashboards using bslib with Bootstrap 5 layouts, cards, value boxes, navigation, theming, and modern inputs. Includes migration guide from legacy Shiny patterns
• shiny-bslib-theming - Comprehensive theming for Shiny apps using bslib, covering bs_theme(), Bootswatch themes, custom colors, typography, Bootstrap Sass variables, custom Sass/CSS rules, dark mode, dynamic theming, and R plot theming

Quarto

Skills for Quarto document creation and publishing.