vanity-engineering-review

bencium-marketplace

A Claude Code plugin marketplace with 13 skills for design, architecture, and productivity by bencium.io.

Installation

skills.sh (Recommended)

Install all skills at once, or pick individual ones:

# Browse all available skills
npx skills add bencium/bencium-marketplace --list

# Install all skills globally
npx skills add bencium/bencium-marketplace -g --all

# Install a specific skill
npx skills add bencium/bencium-marketplace -g --skill typography
npx skills add bencium/bencium-marketplace -g --skill design-audit

Claude Code (CLI)

Add the marketplace, then install individual plugins:

# Add marketplace
/plugin marketplace add bencium/bencium-marketplace

# Install any plugin
/plugin install bencium-controlled-ux-designer@bencium-marketplace

Claude.ai Cowork App

These skills work as SKILL.md files in the Claude Cowork app. Copy the skills/ directory from any plugin into your project's .claude/skills/ folder.

Other Coding Tools

The SKILL.md format is compatible with 40+ AI coding tools that support markdown-based skill files, including OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, and others. Copy the skill files into the tool's prompt or context directory.

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Skills

Design (6 skills)

Skill	Description
bencium-controlled-ux-designer	Systematic UX design for production. WCAG 2.1 AA, mathematical scales, always-ask-first protocol. Best for enterprise and regulated industries.
bencium-innovative-ux-designer	Bold creative UX that commits to distinctive directions. Shadows, gradients, experimental typography. Best for landing pages and campaigns.
bencium-impact-designer	Production-grade frontend interfaces that avoid generic AI aesthetics. Based on Anthropic's Frontend Designer Skill.
design-audit	Systematic visual UI/UX audits producing phased, implementation-ready design plans. Purely visual -- does not touch functionality.
typography	Professional typography rules enforcing correct quote marks, dashes, spacing, hierarchy. Auto-applies to generated HTML/CSS/React code.
relationship-design	AI-first interfaces that build ongoing relationships through memory, trust evolution, and collaborative planning.

Productivity (3 skills)

Skill	Description
adaptive-communication	Detects user communication style (high-context relational vs low-context transactional) and adapts responses.
negentropy-lens	Decision-support framework evaluating systems through entropy (decay) vs negentropy (growth), surfacing tacit knowledge gaps.
bencium-aeo	Answer Engine Optimization for AI search visibility. Optimize content for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, AI Overviews citations.

Development (4 skills)

Skill	Description
bencium-code-conventions	Code style and tech stack conventions for React/Next.js/TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Supabase projects.
renaissance-architecture	Software architecture principles for building genuinely new solutions through first-principles thinking, not derivative work.
human-architect-mindset	Systematic architectural thinking -- domain modeling, systems thinking, constraint navigation, and AI-aware problem decomposition.
vanity-engineering-review	Reviews codebases, architectures, PRs, and technical plans for vanity engineering -- code built for ego rather than user value.

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Skill Structure

Each plugin follows the standard Claude Code plugin format:

plugin-name/
  .claude-plugin/
    plugin.json
  skills/
    skill-name/
      SKILL.md
      [reference files]

Bonus: Spinner Verbs

64 satirical tech-bro spinner verbs that replace Claude Code's default "Thinking..." messages with phrases like Enshittifying platforms, Rebranding failures as "pivots", and Overcompensating with rocket size.

Install

Copy spinner-verbs.json contents into your ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "spinnerVerbs": {
    "mode": "replace",
    "verbs": ["..."]
  }
}

Or append to defaults instead of replacing:

{
  "spinnerVerbs": {
    "mode": "append",
    "verbs": ["..."]
  }
}

See spinner-verbs.json for the full list.

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License

MIT