QualityPython

Code Standards

by tamdogood

Code Standards is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by tamdogood in builder-essential-skills.

183 stars6 forkson tamdogood/builder-essential-skillsAdded 2026/09/06+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/16
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Install Code Standards
Copy Code Standards 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/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills/tree/main/skills/code-standards ~/.claude/skills/code-standards

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/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
skills/code-standards/SKILL.md in tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/code-standards
Collection
One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Quality1745 skills

What Code Standards does

Code Standards applies a disciplined workflow for code changes: orient, baseline, make the smallest change, test, verify, and self-review. Use it before implementing features, bug fixes, or refactors, especially when changing shared interfaces or security-sensitive code.

Code Standards is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Code Standards comes from a repository tagged agent, ai, ai-agents, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Code standards — the change workflow

You are making a code change. This skill is the execution order; it is stack-agnostic. Adapt every command to the project's actual toolchain: read the project's own docs (README, CONTRIBUTING, AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md, a Makefile or package scripts) once to learn its build, test, lint, and format commands before you start.

Steps

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

Commands Code Standards provides

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

  • /blocking

Frequently asked about Code Standards

  • What else does tamdogood publish alongside Code Standards?

    Code Standards is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tamdogood/builder-essential-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Async Learning Teacher, Build Scenario Tests and Create Marketing Kit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Code Standards does, and is maintained by tamdogood in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tamdogood/builder-essential-skills page.

  • How does Code Standards compare to other Quality skills?

    Code Standards ranks #1660 by stars among the 1745 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Code Standards against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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