Claude Skills — PDLC Role Collection
Comprehensive, standards-grounded Claude Code skills for every role in the Product Development Lifecycle.
454 skills and 173 commands across 57 plugins for 8 roles.
Roles
| Role | Skills | Commands | Plugins | Standards Alignment |
|---|
| architect | 63 | 10 | 8 | TOGAF, IASA BTABoK, ISO 42010, SWEBOK v4 |
| engineer | 65 | 26 | 8 | SWEBOK v4, SFIA v9, DORA, SPACE, ISO 25010 |
| product-manager | 65 | 26 | 8 | AIPMM PmBoK, ISPMA SPMBoK, PDMA NPDP |
| tech-lead | 63 | 25 | 8 | SFIA v9, DORA/Accelerate, Team Topologies |
| security | 64 | 25 | 8 | NIST CSF 2.0, OWASP SAMM, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001 |
| designer | 63 | 27 | 8 | WCAG 2.2, ISO 9241, Nielsen Heuristics |
| qa-engineer | 63 | 26 | 8 | ISTQB, ISO 25010, WCAG 2.2, IEEE 829 |
| sdlc | 8 | 8 | 1 | ISO/IEC 12207, ISO/IEC 15288 |
What Makes This Different
Every skill is built on three principles:
- Standards-grounded — Each role maps to recognized professional bodies of knowledge (SWEBOK, TOGAF, OWASP, AIPMM). See STANDARDS.md.
- LLM error mitigation — Every skill has an Anti-Patterns section targeting documented LLM failure modes (hallucination, over-generalization, constraint blindness, happy-path bias).
- Artifact-producing — Every skill produces a concrete deliverable (document, diagram, decision record, test plan, policy), not just advice.
Quick Start
Install a Single Role
claude install github:sethdford/claude-skills/engineer
Install a Single Plugin
claude install github:sethdford/claude-skills/engineer/testing
Install All Roles
claude install github:sethdford/claude-skills
Skills vs Commands
- Skills are domain knowledge units (nouns). They teach Claude about a topic — like writing an ADR, designing a threat model, or creating a product roadmap.
- Commands are workflows (verbs). They chain multiple skills together — like running a full architecture review or planning a product launch.
Role Breakdown
Architect — 8 Plugins
| Plugin | Skills | Commands | Focus |
|---|
| system-design | 10 | 4 | Decomposition, DDD, microservices, event-driven, CQRS |
| quality-attributes | 8 | 3 | Scalability, reliability, performance, trade-off analysis |
| decision-making | 8 | 3 | ADRs, technology radar, build-vs-buy, migration strategy |
| data-architecture | 8 | 3 | Data modeling, storage selection, event sourcing, pipelines |
| infrastructure-design | 8 | 3 | Cloud architecture, deployment, DR, multi-region |
| architecture-governance | 7 | 3 | Principles, fitness functions, tech debt, compliance |
| communication | 7 | 3 | C4 diagrams, RFCs, stakeholder presentations, roadmaps |
| architect-toolkit | 7 | 3 | Katas, reviews, mentoring, anti-patterns catalog |
Engineer — 8 Plugins
| Plugin | Skills | Commands | Focus |
|---|
| code-quality | 10 | 4 | Clean code, refactoring, SOLID, code smells |
| testing | 9 | 4 | TDD, property-based testing, test architecture |
| debugging | 8 | 3 | Systematic debugging, root cause analysis, postmortems |
| implementation-patterns | 8 | 3 | Design patterns, data structures, concurrency |
| api-development | 8 | 3 | REST, GraphQL, gRPC, API design and testing |
| devops-practices | 8 | 3 | CI/CD, containers, deployment, monitoring |
| database-engineering | 7 | 3 | Schema design, query optimization, migrations |
| engineer-toolkit | 7 | 3 | Technical writing, git workflow, incident response |
Product Manager — 8 Plugins
