ascii-art-explainer

Claude Hacks

Skills, commands, and hacks for Claude Code.

Extend Claude Code with custom skills, slash commands, and utilities. Install what you need, skip what you don't.

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Hacks (Zero Install)

Standalone scripts. Copy once, use forever.

Status Line

Custom status line: directory | model | context % | git status | cost

brew install jq
curl -o ~/.claude/statusline.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mahidalhan/claude-hacks/master/hacks/statusline.sh
chmod +x ~/.claude/statusline.sh
claude config set status_line.command ~/.claude/statusline.sh

Publish Skill

Publish skills from any project to your own marketplace repo. Copies skill, bumps version, commits & pushes.

# Install
curl -o ~/.local/bin/publish-skill https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mahidalhan/claude-hacks/master/hacks/publish-skill
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/publish-skill

# Set your marketplace (add to .zshrc)
export CLAUDE_MARKETPLACE=~/code/my-marketplace

# Usage (from any project with .claude/skills/)
publish-skill my-skill                            # From .claude/skills/my-skill
publish-skill my-skill --source /path/to/skill    # Custom source
publish-skill my-skill --dry-run                  # Preview changes

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Plugins (Marketplace)

# Add marketplace (once)
/plugin marketplace add mahidalhan/claude-hacks

# Install any plugin
/plugin install <plugin-name>@claude-hacks

code-intelligence

Code search and architecture analysis via Exa API (requires EXA_API_KEY).

Command	Description
/code-search	Search GitHub repos for real code examples
/analyze-architecture	First-principles architecture analysis

Skills: exa-code-context, architecture-introspector

learning-tools

Interactive teaching with chunked explanations and comprehension checks.

Command	Description
/explain	Recursive ground-up explanations
/threaded-explainer	Chunked explanations with interrupt handling

Skills: explainer, threaded-explainer

creative-tools

Diagrams, UI design, generative art, and visual explanations.

Command	Description
/diagram	Mermaid diagrams for any flow
/design-ui	Distinctive frontend designs
/generative-art	Algorithmic/generative art
/ascii-explain	ASCII art visualizations

Skills: mermaid-diagrams, frontend-design, algorithmic-art, ascii-art-explainer

workflow-tools

Session handoffs, planning, orchestration, and development workflows.

Command	Description
/create-handoff	Create session handoff document
/resume-handoff	Resume from handoff
/orchestrate	Multi-task orchestration
/plan-code-changes	Implementation planning
/daily-standup	Generate standup summary
/deslop	Remove AI slop from text
/rich-simplicity	Apply Simple Made Easy principles
/test-coverage	Analyze test coverage
/xml-context	Structure context with XML

Skills: task-orchestrator, xml-context-engineering

skill-tools

Create custom Claude skills with quality constraints.

Command	Description
/create-skill	Scaffold a new skill

Skills: skill-creator

git-tools

Smart commits and PR descriptions following best practices.

Command	Description
/commit	Generate semantic commit
/describe-pr	Generate PR description

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Links

• Claude Plugins Guide
• Exa API

License

MIT