Refine Skill

Refine Skill is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by shinpr in ai-coding-project-boilerplate.

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Install Refine Skill

Copy Refine Skill 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/shinpr/ai-coding-project-boilerplate/tree/main/.claude/commands-en ~/.claude/skills/commands-en

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/shinpr/ai-coding-project-boilerplate.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/commands-en/refine-skill.md in shinpr/ai-coding-project-boilerplate
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/commands-en
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2793 skills

What Refine Skill does

Refine Skill implements requested changes to an existing skill file using a structured edit-and-review workflow. Use it when modifying criteria, scope, or wording with quality checks and approval gates.

Refine Skill is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Refine Skill comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, agentic-workflow, ai-agents and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Explicit User Instruction: The user explicitly instructs and authorizes every subagent call named in this recipe. Execute each applicable call when its prerequisites are met.

Command Context: Workflow for understanding skill file change requests and implementing via skill-creator (modification mode) with quality-assured optimization.

Change request: $ARGUMENTS

Execution Process

Complete Steps 1-6 in order. Advance only when the current step's stated output, review result, or approval condition is satisfied. Complete after every applicable Completion Criterion is satisfied.

Step 1: Understand the Request

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

Commands Refine Skill provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/sync-skills

Frequently asked about Refine Skill

What else does shinpr publish alongside Refine Skill?
Refine Skill is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from shinpr/ai-coding-project-boilerplate, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Coding Standards, Coding Standards and Create Skill. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Refine Skill does, and is maintained by shinpr in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the shinpr/ai-coding-project-boilerplate page.
How does Refine Skill compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Refine Skill ranks #2513 by stars among the 2793 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 Refine Skill against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.