Developer Code Organization

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Developer Code Organization is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by github in gh-aw.

4.9K stars495 forkson github/gh-awAdded 2026/08/16Repository updated 2026/08/16

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Install Developer Code Organization

Copy Developer Code Organization 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/github/gh-aw/tree/main/.github/skills/developer-code-organization ~/.claude/skills/developer-code-organization

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/github/gh-aw.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .github/skills/developer-code-organization/SKILL.md in github/gh-aw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/developer-code-organization
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Developer Code Organization does

Developer Code Organization provides patterns for organizing Go code, including file structure, file size guidelines, test organization, and string sanitization/normalization conventions. Use this reference when working in the gh-aw codebase to keep files small and maintainable.

Developer Code Organization is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Developer Code Organization comes from a repository tagged actions, cai, ci, claude-code and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Code Organization

Use this reference for gh-aw code organization patterns, file structure guidelines, WASM build-variant stubs, and string sanitization/normalization conventions.

File Organization Principles
Excellent Patterns to Follow
File Size Guidelines
Decision Trees
Case Study: Refactoring Large Files
Anti-Patterns to Avoid
Helper File Conventions
String Sanitization vs Normalization
WASM Build-Variant Pattern

File Organization Principles

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

Frequently asked about Developer Code Organization

What else does github publish alongside Developer Code Organization?
Developer Code Organization is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from github/gh-aw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AWF Release Integrator, Agent Session CLI and Agent Task CLI. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Developer Code Organization does, and is maintained by github in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the github/gh-aw page.
How does Developer Code Organization compare to other Quality skills?
Developer Code Organization ranks #307 by stars among the 1354 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 Developer Code Organization against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.