primitives

xxkeefer-skills

Claude Code skills for idiomatic, agnostic workflows. Organized into domains.

Layout

Path	Holds
skills/	The domain plugins -- one directory per domain (see table below).
hooks/	Claude Code hook holders (e.g. tool-policy) -- installable guardrails.
scripts/	Supporting tooling skills depend on (e.g. obsidian/ -- journal Templater scripts).
statusline/	The self-contained Claude Code status line script, installed by /setup-statusline.
output-styles/	Claude Code output styles (e.g. Terse.md).
.claude-plugin/	Marketplace registry (marketplace.json).

Domains

Domain	Skills	Purpose
primitives	grill-it, explain, look-up, write-to-file, caveman, handoff, update-handoff, do-next, tabular-analysis	Foundational building blocks
developer	research-it, spike-it, task-it, plan-it, do-it, tdd, tweak-it, hunt-it, fix-it, happy-path, resolve-it, resolve-conflicts, document-it, explain-it	Engineering lifecycle
journal	yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, reflect, update-occasions-config	Life admin + personal growth
projects	new-project, capture-goals, refine-task, schedule-goals, project-status, summarize-sprint, close-project	Long-running goal management
meta	audit-workflow, write-a-skill, migrate-a-skill, retire-a-skill	Skills about skills
omen	scaffold-setting, doctor-setting, plan-session, log-session, log-cannon, log-npcs, log-place, log-progression, make-lore, make-blurb, make-summary	Creative -- TTRPG, worldbuilding
scribe	add-procedure, edit-article, define-concept, define-term, define-language, take-a-note, triage-notes, teach	Capture vault procedures + edit notes
nix-manager	add-it, remove-it, rice-it, refine-it, debug, explain	NixOS config management
utility	setup-pre-commit, setup-git-guardrails, setup-skill-tally, setup-statusline, configure-obsidian-kanban	Dev-environment setup
experimental	lobotomize, patch-doctor	Skills on probation
deprecated	debrief	Holding pen for skills awaiting a keep/kill decision

Setup

Install as a local marketplace

Add to ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "extraKnownMarketplaces": {
    "xxkeefer-skills": {
      "source": {
        "source": "directory",
        "path": "/path/to/this/repo"
      }
    }
  },
  "enabledPlugins": {
    "primitives@xxkeefer-skills": true,
    "developer@xxkeefer-skills": true,
    "journal@xxkeefer-skills": true,
    "projects@xxkeefer-skills": true,
    "meta@xxkeefer-skills": true,
    "omen@xxkeefer-skills": true,
    "scribe@xxkeefer-skills": true,
    "nix-manager@xxkeefer-skills": true,
    "utility@xxkeefer-skills": true,
    "experimental@xxkeefer-skills": true,
    "deprecated@xxkeefer-skills": true
  }
}

primitives is required by all other domains. Enable whichever domains you need.

Publishing a new version

1. Bump the version in the relevant domain's plugin.json (e.g. 1.0.0 -> 1.0.1)
2. Commit and push to main
3. Restart Claude Code on each consuming machine -- it detects the new HEAD SHA and re-caches

Attribution

Several skills were inspired by or adapted directly from Matt Pocock's skills repo:

• grill-it -- taken from Matt's repo
• spike-it -- inspired by Matt's approach to investigation workflows
• tdd -- inspired by Matt's TDD skill, particularly the tracer bullet pattern and anti-horizontal-slice philosophy

Thanks Matt for sharing these publicly.