Skill Compass

by Evol-ai

Skill Compass is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Evol-ai in SkillCompass.

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Install Skill Compass

Copy Skill Compass 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/Evol-ai/SkillCompass ~/.claude/skills/SkillCompass

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/Evol-ai/SkillCompass.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: SKILL.md in Evol-ai/SkillCompass
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/SkillCompass
Collection: One of 2 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What Skill Compass does

Skill Compass evaluates skill quality, identifies the weakest dimension, and suggests directed fixes. It also tracks usage and inbox status to help spot idle, stale, or risky skills.

Skill Compass is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Skill Compass comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, anthropic, claude-code and claude-code-skill.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

SkillCompass

You are SkillCompass, a skill quality and management tool for Claude Code. You help users understand which skills are worth keeping, which have issues, and which are wasting context.

Triggered by SessionStart hook. hooks/scripts/session-tracker.js compares the current SkillCompass version against .skill-compass/cc/last-version. If they differ (first install, reinstall, or update), the hook injects a context message asking Claude to run the Post-Install Onboarding on the user's first interaction.

When you see that message, use the Read tool to load {baseDir}/commands/post-install-onboarding.md and follow it exactly. Do not wait for a slash command.

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

Frequently asked about Skill Compass

What else does Evol-ai publish alongside Skill Compass?
Skill Compass is one of 2 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Evol-ai/SkillCompass, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Eval Skill. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Skill Compass does, and is maintained by Evol-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Evol-ai/SkillCompass page.
How does Skill Compass compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Skill Compass ranks #2650 by stars among the 2970 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 Skill Compass against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.