Keel

by lencx

Keel is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by lencx in skills.

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Install Keel

Copy Keel 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/lencx/skills/tree/main/skills/keel ~/.claude/skills/keel

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/lencx/skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/keel/SKILL.md in lencx/skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/keel
Collection: One of 2 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3475 skills

What Keel does

Keel discovers, judges, and governs load-bearing architecture for systems and modules. Use it to evaluate responsibility, interfaces, dependency direction, migration, retirement, or rewrite risk when architecture choices matter.

Keel is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Keel comes from a repository tagged agent, ai, architecture, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Keel

Keel discovers, judges, and governs load-bearing arrangements. It shapes the best-supported direction and keeps declared architecture enforceable, economical, migratable, and deletable as the system evolves.

Use keel at module, boundary, and system scale for responsibility between parts, authority or ownership, interfaces or contracts, dependency direction, state or recovery ownership, and seams that isolate future change. Use repository-native terms and treat applicable instructions, records, contracts, and entry paths as evidence rather than decoration.

State And Ownership

Inspect only enough of the request, governing sources, and representative call sites or contracts to select the current state. Transition only when evidence changes the architecture job:

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

Frequently asked about Keel

What else does lencx publish alongside Keel?
Keel is one of 2 skills that DirSkills catalogs from lencx/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Coding Protocol. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Keel does, and is maintained by lencx in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the lencx/skills page.
How does Keel compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Keel ranks #3132 by stars among the 3475 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 Keel against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.