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Project Brain

by Ethan-YS

Project Brain is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Ethan-YS in project-brain.

171 stars9 forkson Ethan-YS/project-brainAdded 2026/09/07+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/06/23
ai-assistantai-codingai-pair-programmingclaude-codecontext-managementcursordeveloper-toolsmethodologyproject-template
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Install Project Brain
Copy Project Brain 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/Ethan-YS/project-brain/tree/main/skills/project-brain ~/.claude/skills/project-brain

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/Ethan-YS/project-brain.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
skills/project-brain/SKILL.md in Ethan-YS/project-brain
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/project-brain
Collection
The only skill cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering3475 skills

What Project Brain does

Project Brain scaffolds and updates a project-level memory folder for AI sessions. Use it to initialize context, resume work, hand off before switching windows, or record approved updates.

Project Brain is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Project Brain comes from a repository tagged ai-assistant, ai-coding, ai-pair-programming, claude-code and context-management.

Documentation

README

project-brain

A folder structure + collaboration protocol for persistent project context across AI sessions. Use it to scaffold a brain/ folder in the user's project, resume work from an existing one, or update entries when work happens.

When to invoke this skill

User signal Workflow
"set up project brain" / "scaffold project" / "建项目脑" / "init project context" Kick-off — see §1
User is in a directory containing brain/ AND explicitly says "load" / "resume" / "what's the status" / "继续这个项目" Startup — see §2
User says "switch windows" / "context's getting full" / "I'll head out" / "压缩了" / "切窗口" Handoff — see §3
User says "update the project brain" / "let's record this" / "更新项目脑" Update — see §4

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

Frequently asked about Project Brain

  • How does Project Brain compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Project Brain ranks #3255 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 Project Brain against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.