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Top Skills for Engineering

Skills for software engineers: code review, refactoring, testing, debugging, infra.

83 skills indexed · ranked by composite score

Top 6 Engineering skills

  1. 1.frontend-designEscape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written.
  2. 2.firebase-hosting-basicsFirebase-authored. Init, configure, and one-step deploy to Firebase Hosting / App Hosting.
  3. 3.stripe-best-practicesStripe's own integration playbook: pick the right API, set up Connect and billing, and handle keys and webhooks securely.
  4. 4.stripe-projectsProvision a Postgres, Redis, auth, or LLM provider through the Stripe Projects catalog rather than signing up by hand.
  5. 5.email-best-practicesResend's deliverability playbook: SPF/DKIM/DMARC, spam avoidance, bounce handling, and CAN-SPAM/GDPR/CASL compliance.
  6. 6.react-emailBuild cross-client HTML emails as React components, with a visual editor and Resend-ready rendering.

About Engineering

Engineering vertical Skills are the everyday workbench for software engineers — code review, refactoring, testing, debugging, infrastructure, security, documentation. The category aggregates the Skills that ship in Claude Code by default plus the strongest community-published equivalents for Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and Antigravity.

The common workflows are familiar: review a diff before merge, refactor a tangled module, author tests for a new feature, debug a production incident, write the architecture decision record, document a service. Skills here also cover the meta-engineering work — choosing the right model for a task, designing prompts and Skills for your own team, and operating the multi-agent workflows that compose multiple Skills.

Full-stack engineers, backend engineers, frontend engineers, platform engineers, SREs, and engineering managers all use these Skills. Composite scoring weights provenance, install count, and how well the Skill respects the day-to-day reality of working on a real codebase — Skills that demand pristine repos or perfect git hygiene lose to those that meet the engineer where they are.

Ranked by score

Best Engineering Skills

Skills with strong fit for engineering workflows.

Escape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written.

ReactTailwindDesign
All surfaces

Stripe's own integration playbook: pick the right API, set up Connect and billing, and handle keys and webhooks securely.

StripePaymentsSubscriptions
Code

Provision a Postgres, Redis, auth, or LLM provider through the Stripe Projects catalog rather than signing up by hand.

StripeProvisioningInfra
Code

Resend's deliverability playbook: SPF/DKIM/DMARC, spam avoidance, bounce handling, and CAN-SPAM/GDPR/CASL compliance.

EmailDeliverabilitySPF/DKIM/DMARC
Code

Build cross-client HTML emails as React components, with a visual editor and Resend-ready rendering.

React EmailTemplatesTransactional
Code

Stripe's version-upgrade guide: move API versions and SDKs without breaking your integration.

StripeMigrationSDK
Code

Hookdeck's webhook playbook: 40 provider-specific skills covering signature verification, idempotency, and event handling — each with runnable examples.

WebhooksSignature VerificationIdempotency
Code

Resend's own API skill: send transactional and batch email, handle inbound webhooks, and manage domains, templates, and keys.

ResendEmailTransactional
Code

Give an agent a webhook-driven inbox with the sender-allowlist and content-filtering patterns that block prompt injection from inbound email.

Inbound EmailAgent SecurityWebhooks
Code

Structured multi-step development. Brainstorm → spec → plan → build → review → merge — TDD baked in.

TDDMulti-agentPlans
Code

Paddle's own integration playbook: ten skills for Checkout, webhooks, pricing pages, and subscription lifecycle on the merchant-of-record platform.

PaddleSubscriptionsMerchant of Record
Code

Twilio's official Developer Kit: 55 skills across SMS, WhatsApp, Voice, Verify, SendGrid, and compliance — plus the Twilio MCP. Public beta.

TwilioSMSWhatsAppVoice
Code

Composio's official skill for connecting agents to 1000+ external apps: auth configs, per-user connections, tool execution, and triggers.

ComposioTool RouterIntegrations
Code

Full-stack WorkOS implementation with auth provider migration paths.

WorkOSAuthSSO
Code

1,000+ SaaS integrations as one skill. OAuth lifecycle, scoped credentials, structured actions.

OAuthSaaSAction-taking
All surfaces

ADR authoring + design review. Trade-offs, consequences, alternatives.

ADRArchitectureDesign
All surfaces

Disciplined debugging loop. Reproduce, isolate, diagnose, fix.

DebugDiagnosisTroubleshooting
All surfaces

Technical writing that engineers will actually read and update.

DocumentationWritingREADME
All surfaces

Incident triage + comms + blameless postmortem in one harness.

IncidentPostmortemOn-call
All surfaces

System design from requirements. APIs, data, boundaries, scale.

System DesignArchitectureAPI
All surfaces

Honest tech-debt audit with a prioritized cleanup backlog.

Tech DebtRefactorAudit
All surfaces

Layered test plan sized to the change's risk profile.

TestingStrategyCoverage
All surfaces
Official

Real feature verification — run the app, drive it, prove it works.

VerifyPreviewE2E
Code

Self-contained HTML artifacts with React + shadcn/ui — no build step, just paste and run.

Reactshadcn/uiArtifacts
All surfaces

Turn a final design into a spec engineers can implement directly.

HandoffSpecsTokens
All surfaces

Design-system hygiene at speed. Audit, document, extend.

Design SystemAuditDocumentation
All surfaces

Supabase done right. RLS policies, edge functions, realtime, auth — in idiomatic patterns.

PostgresRLSRealtime
Code

Stripe done right. Checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, idempotency, metered billing.

StripePaymentsWebhooks
All surfaces

Shopify Storefront API: cart, checkout, metafields, customer accounts, Hydrogen patterns.

ShopifyCommerceHydrogen
Code

Sentry the right way. Source maps, releases, breadcrumbs, performance, structured tags.

SentryErrorsObservability
Code
Official

One-command app launch tailored to your project type.

RunLaunchDev
Code

Pre-merge security sweep on the current branch's diff.

SecurityReviewOWASP
Code

The canonical Anthropic code review. Effort levels from quick to ultra.

Code ReviewBuilt-inQuality
Code

Bootstrap a CLAUDE.md so future sessions start informed.

InitCLAUDE.mdBootstrap
Code

PR review with inline GitHub comments via gh.

PRReviewGitHub
Code
Official

Recurring task runner. Self-paced or interval-based.

LoopRecurringSchedule
Code

Cron for remote Claude Code agents. Set it and forget it.

ScheduleCronAutomation
Code

Test local webapps with Playwright. Generation, run, report — end-to-end.

PlaywrightE2ETesting
Code

Review for reuse, quality, efficiency. Catches over-abstraction and dead code before merge.

ReviewRefactorDRY
Code

Netlify-authored deploy flow. Auth, site linking, Deploy Previews, production promotes.

NetlifyDeploy PreviewsCLI
Code

Cloudflare-authored. Workers and Pages deploys, Wrangler config, KV/D1/R2 from chat.

CloudflareWorkersPagesWrangler
Code

Security audits run by a real security firm. CodeQL + Semgrep + audit workflows.

CodeQLSemgrepAudit
Code

PlanetScale's schema branching and index-aware queries, packaged for agents.

SchemaMigrationsMySQL
Code

shadcn/ui context: components, patterns, and the right composition by default.

shadcnComponents
Code

Next.js App Router by the book. Server components, streaming, parallel routes.

Next.jsReactApp Router
Code

Build new MCP servers. The official scaffold + design walkthrough.

MCPServerScaffold
Code

Always-current Claude API reference and SDK docs. Bundled with Claude Code.

APISDKDocs
Code

Internal comms that read consistent. Newsletters, status reports, FAQs, updates.

NewsletterStatusFAQ
All surfaces

Repo-to-live-URL on GitHub Pages: Actions workflow, custom domain, Jekyll, troubleshoot.

GitHub PagesStatic SiteJekyllGitHub Actions
Code

Boolean prop hell → compound components. Cleaner React component APIs by construction.

ReactPatternsAPI design
Code

Expo workflows: navigation, EAS, OTA, native modules.

ExpoReact NativeEAS
Code
Community

TDD with red/green/refactor as a concrete TypeScript walkthrough.

TDDTypeScript
Code

Structured PR reviews with severity-tagged findings — bugs, security, perf, style.

ReviewSecurityPR
Code

Prisma migrations and queries by the book. Index-aware, migration-safe, type-correct.

PrismaTypeScriptMigrations
Code

Dockerfiles done right. Multi-stage, cache-friendly, distroless, hardened.

DockerContainersSecurity
Code

GitHub Actions workflows with matrix, reusable jobs, OIDC, secrets done right.

GitHub ActionsCI/CDYAML
Code

TypeScript strict mode by default. Discriminated unions, branded types, exhaustive switches.

TypeScriptTypesStrict
Code

Terraform expertise on tap. State inspection, module validators, safety-first IaC.

TerraformIaCAWS
Code

Senior DevOps engineer persona — CI/CD, containers, blue-green/canary, IaC across clouds.

CI/CDContainersAWS
Code

Standup updates from recent commits, PRs, and ticket moves. Yesterday/today/blockers.

StandupReports
Code

AWS CDK in TypeScript with stack composition, drift detection, cost-tagged resources.

AWSCDKIaC
Code

Cypress E2E with page objects, custom commands, network stubs, a11y checks.

CypressE2EFrontend testing
Code

Drive the iOS Simulator from the agent loop. Build and test iOS apps.

iOSSimulatorMobile
Code

Kubernetes hardening by the book. NetworkPolicies, RBAC, OPA, service mesh.

KubernetesRBACOPA
Code

FAQ

Frequently asked

Which Skills ship with Claude Code by default?

code-review, simplify, verify, init, security-review, run, and several others. They cover the core engineering loop — review, simplify, verify, init, secure, run.

Are these Skills useful for Cursor and Codex?

Most are — the SKILL.md spec was adopted by Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and Antigravity in late 2025. Per-Skill compatibility is verified on each skill's page.

Do these Skills work in a monorepo?

Most handle monorepos cleanly — they respect workspace boundaries and run scoped to the changed package. A few generic Skills assume single-project layout; their pages flag this.

How do I pick between Opus and Sonnet for engineering Skills?

Opus 4.7+ for high-effort review, architecture and complex refactors. Sonnet 4.6 for routine review and quick fixes. Several Skills auto-select based on the work's effort level.

Can I bundle several engineering Skills into a plugin?

Yes — Claude Code plugins package multiple Skills together. The plugin-customizer Skill helps tailor a bundle for your org's stack.

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