Language Idioms Refiner

Language Idioms Refiner is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by techygarg in lattice.

185 stars13 forkson techygarg/latticeAdded 2026/09/06+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/09/04

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Install Language Idioms Refiner

Copy Language Idioms Refiner 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/techygarg/lattice/tree/main/skills/language-idioms-refiner ~/.claude/skills/language-idioms-refiner

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/techygarg/lattice.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/language-idioms-refiner/SKILL.md in techygarg/lattice
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/language-idioms-refiner
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3278 skills

What Language Idioms Refiner does

Language Idioms Refiner guides a structured interview to capture a project's language-specific idioms and patterns. Use it when setting up a new project, switching languages, or defining how pseudocode should map to Go, Rust, Python, and similar languages.

Language Idioms Refiner is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Language Idioms Refiner comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-framework, agent-skills, agentic and agentic-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Language Idioms Refiner

What This Produces

Output: .lattice/standards/language-idioms.md (or custom path from .lattice/config.yaml -> paths.language_idioms)
Mode: Always standalone -- no embedded language defaults exist in atoms to overlay on. For revisions, load existing document and update sections in place.
Config keys:
- language (top-level) -- language identifier (e.g., go, rust, python, java, typescript)
- paths.language_idioms -- path to the produced document
Template: Read ./assets/template.md for the full document structure, pre-populated examples, and interview guidance comments
Consumed by: Multiple atoms reference specific sections by heading name:

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

Frequently asked about Language Idioms Refiner

What else does techygarg publish alongside Language Idioms Refiner?
Language Idioms Refiner is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from techygarg/lattice, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Architecture, Architecture Compass and Architecture Refiner. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Language Idioms Refiner does, and is maintained by techygarg in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the techygarg/lattice page.
How does Language Idioms Refiner compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Language Idioms Refiner ranks #3020 by stars among the 3278 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 Language Idioms Refiner against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.