Pair

by sterlingcrispin

Pair is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by sterlingcrispin in claude_slash_commands.

200 stars18 forkson sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commandsAdded 2026/09/05Repository updated 2026/03/31

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Install Pair

Copy Pair 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/sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands/tree/main/pair ~/.claude/skills/pair

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/sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: pair/SKILL.md in sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/pair
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1662 skills

What Pair does

Pair continues a pair-programming session by reviewing a partner’s work, verifying correctness, making edits, and completing the next task when appropriate. It appends the next message to a file and commits the changes.

Pair is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Pair comes from a repository tagged claude-skills and codex-skills.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

continue pair programming:

review partners work
verify for correctness
make edits and complete next task if appropriate
append your next message to the file
commit your changes

Frequently asked about Pair

What else does sterlingcrispin publish alongside Pair?
Pair is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Audit Handoff, Checkpoint and Codex Audit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Pair does, and is maintained by sterlingcrispin in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands page.
How does Pair compare to other Quality skills?
Pair ranks #1542 by stars among the 1662 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 Pair against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.