Self Install

Self Install is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by mattgierhart in PRD-driven-context-engineering.

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Install Self Install

Copy Self Install 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/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering/tree/main/.claude/skills/ghm-self-install ~/.claude/skills/ghm-self-install

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/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/ghm-self-install/SKILL.md in mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ghm-self-install
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2109 skills

What Self Install does

Self Install installs the PRD-driven context engineering framework into a fresh or existing repository. It runs a wizard, drives the installer, and verifies hooks and readiness without overwriting protected product files.

Self Install is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Self Install comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-coding, ai-agents, ai-assisted and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Self-Install

Install the methodology into a target repo from the install manifest, the way Xantham's blueprint installs from markdown: the agent runtime is the installer, so the whole thing runs inside your Claude Code subscription — no API key, no metered calls, no service to stand up.

Two paths, one manifest. This skill is the interactive path. install.sh is the deterministic CLI path. Both read .claude/install-manifest.yaml, so they can't drift. Prefer driving install.sh from this skill; fall back to manual copies only when the script isn't reachable.

Consumes

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

Frequently asked about Self Install

What else does mattgierhart publish alongside Self Install?
Self Install is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Architecture Design, Competitive Landscape Mapping and Environment Setup. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Self Install does, and is maintained by mattgierhart in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering page.
How does Self Install compare to other Automation skills?
Self Install ranks #1913 by stars among the 2109 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Self Install against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.