Chain Patterns

Chain Patterns is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by yonatangross in orchestkit.

225 stars24 forkson yonatangross/orchestkitAdded 2026/09/03Repository updated 2026/09/02

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Install Chain Patterns

Copy Chain Patterns into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit/tree/main/src/skills/chain-patterns ~/.claude/skills/chain-patterns

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: src/skills/chain-patterns/SKILL.md in yonatangross/orchestkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/chain-patterns
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2793 skills

What Chain Patterns does

Chain Patterns provides patterns for multi-phase Claude Code pipelines, including MCP capability detection, handoff files, checkpoint-resume, worktree-isolated agents, and cron monitoring. Use it when building or debugging a pipeline skill.

Chain Patterns is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Chain Patterns comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, agents, ai-agents, ai-development and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

# FIRST thing in any pipeline skill — all in ONE message:
ToolSearch(query="select:mcp__memory__search_nodes")
ToolSearch(query="select:mcp__context7__resolve-library-id")
ToolSearch(query="select:mcp__sequential-thinking__sequentialthinking")

# Store results for all phases:
Write(".claude/chain/capabilities.json", JSON.stringify({
  "memory": true_or_false,
  "context7": true_or_false,
  "sequential": true_or_false,
  "timestamp": "ISO-8601"
}))

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Chain Patterns provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/loop
/cd
/goal

Frequently asked about Chain Patterns

What else does yonatangross publish alongside Chain Patterns?
Chain Patterns is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from yonatangross/orchestkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI UI Generation, API Design and Accessibility. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Chain Patterns does, and is maintained by yonatangross in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the yonatangross/orchestkit page.
How does Chain Patterns compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Chain Patterns ranks #2531 by stars among the 2793 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Chain Patterns against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.