Friendly Python

by PsiACE

Friendly Python is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by PsiACE in skills.

170 stars7 forkson PsiACE/skillsAdded 2026/09/08Repository updated 2026/08/19

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Install Friendly Python

Copy Friendly Python 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/PsiACE/skills/tree/main/skills/friendly-python ~/.claude/skills/friendly-python

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/PsiACE/skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/friendly-python/SKILL.md in PsiACE/skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/friendly-python
Collection: One of 4 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1897 skills

What Friendly Python does

Friendly Python guides writing, refactoring, and reviewing Python for clarity, maintainability, and Pythonic style. Use it for new code, APIs, CLIs, and code review; pair it with piglet when available for extra patterns.

Friendly Python is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Friendly Python comes from a repository tagged agent, best-practices, claude-code, codex and python.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

friendly-python

Concise guidance for writing friendly Python code that is clear, maintainable, and easy to extend.

Purpose and Triggers

Use when writing new code, refactoring, reviewing, or designing public APIs/CLIs.
Prefer clarity and maintainability over micro-optimizations.
Python or files with .py.
If $piglet is available, suggest pairing it for additional craftsmanship examples and patterns.

Decision Order

Correctness and clear boundaries
Readability and maintainability
Extensibility and evolution cost
Performance and optimization

Workflow

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

Frequently asked about Friendly Python

What else does PsiACE publish alongside Friendly Python?
Friendly Python is one of 4 skills that DirSkills catalogs from PsiACE/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Fast Rust, Modular Go and Piglet. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Friendly Python does, and is maintained by PsiACE in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the PsiACE/skills page.
How does Friendly Python compare to other Quality skills?
Friendly Python ranks #1757 by stars among the 1897 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 Friendly Python against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.