Generate Project Skill

by skilld-dev

Generate Project Skill is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by skilld-dev in skilld.

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Install Generate Project Skill

Copy Generate Project Skill 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/skilld-dev/skilld/tree/main/skills/generate-project-skill ~/.claude/skills/generate-project-skill

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/skilld-dev/skilld.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/generate-project-skill/SKILL.md in skilld-dev/skilld
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/generate-project-skill
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2793 skills

What Generate Project Skill does

Generate Project Skill creates a compact Skill from a software project’s workflows, boundaries, and conventions. Use it when you need a project-specific SKILL.md and supporting references based on real files and commands.

Generate Project Skill is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Generate Project Skill comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, claude-code, cli, codex and cursor.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Read project instructions and decision records first.
Read manifests, exported entry points, and build configuration.
Find the test, lint, typecheck, build, and release commands.
Trace the main public workflows through their real entry points.
Note generated directories and files an Agent must not edit.
Check recent changes when they explain current conventions.

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

Frequently asked about Generate Project Skill

What else does skilld-dev publish alongside Generate Project Skill?
Generate Project Skill is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from skilld-dev/skilld, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Citty, Clack Prompts and Fixture Skill. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Generate Project Skill does, and is maintained by skilld-dev in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the skilld-dev/skilld page.
How does Generate Project Skill compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Generate Project Skill ranks #2222 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 Generate Project Skill against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.