italian-skills

Italian Claude Code Skills

Practical developer tools with Italian cultural flair. Each command maps a real Italian concept to a useful development workflow — and teaches you a bit of Italian along the way.

The humor comes from the mapping being correct: nonna's cooking logic genuinely applies to code review, and "al dente" is actually a great metaphor for code quality balance.

Commands

Command	Italian Concept	What It Does
/al-dente	Pasta cooked just right	Code quality balance — not over-engineered, not fragile
/arrangiati	L'arte di arrangiarsi (art of making do)	Solve it with existing dependencies only
/bella-figura	Fare bella figura (make a good impression)	Formatting, naming, style — make code presentable
/coffee-break	La pausa caffe	Step back from a problem, brainstorm 3 fresh approaches
/dizionario	Dictionary	Learn the Italian cultural references behind each command
/ma-che-vuoi	The iconic hand gesture	Explain confusing code in plain language
/nonna-review	Italian grandmother	Warm but honest code review — praise first, then the truth

Installation

Clone and register as a local Claude Code plugin:

git clone https://github.com/edmondop/italian-claude-code-skills.git
claude plugin add --local /path/to/italian-claude-code-skills

Or if you already have it cloned, just point Claude Code at it:

claude plugin add --local /path/to/italian-claude-code-skills

Examples

/al-dente src/services/payment.py
/arrangiati I need to retry HTTP requests with exponential backoff
/bella-figura src/api/
/coffee-break This recursive parser keeps hitting stack overflow
/ma-che-vuoi src/utils/transform.py:47
/nonna-review src/auth/
/dizionario arrangiati

Cultural References

Run /dizionario inside Claude Code for the full phrasebook, or see docs/cultural-references.md for all Italian idioms, proverbs, and links to learn more.

Contributing

Got an Italian concept that maps perfectly to a dev workflow? Open an issue or PR. The bar is: the metaphor has to be genuinely useful, not just funny — though being both is ideal.

License

MIT