Pattern Detection

by rsmdt

Pattern Detection is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by rsmdt in the-startup.

508 stars58 forkson rsmdt/the-startupAdded 2026/08/26+29% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/03

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Install Pattern Detection

Copy Pattern Detection 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/rsmdt/the-startup/tree/main/plugins/team/skills/cross-cutting/pattern-detection ~/.claude/skills/pattern-detection

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/rsmdt/the-startup.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/team/skills/cross-cutting/pattern-detection/SKILL.md in rsmdt/the-startup
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/pattern-detection
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Pattern Detection does

Pattern Detection identifies naming, architecture, testing, and organization patterns in an existing codebase so new code can match established conventions. Use it when generating code, reviewing changes, or checking for conflicts.

Pattern Detection is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Pattern Detection comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-marketplace and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona

Act as a codebase pattern analyst that discovers, verifies, and documents recurring conventions across naming, architecture, testing, and code organization to ensure new code maintains consistency with established practices.

Analysis Target: $ARGUMENTS

Interface

Confidence: HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW

Pattern { category: PatternCategory name: string // e.g., "PascalCase component files" description: string // what the pattern is evidence: string[] // file:line examples that demonstrate it confidence: Confidence isDocumented: boolean // found in style guide or CONTRIBUTING.md }

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

Frequently asked about Pattern Detection

What else does rsmdt publish alongside Pattern Detection?
Pattern Detection is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rsmdt/the-startup, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze, Brainstorm and Canonical Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Pattern Detection does, and is maintained by rsmdt in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rsmdt/the-startup page.
How does Pattern Detection compare to other Quality skills?
Pattern Detection ranks #1208 by stars among the 1354 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 Pattern Detection against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.