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Top Skills for Engineering

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

39 skills indexed · ranked by composite score

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

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

TDDMulti-agentPlans
Code

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

OAuthSaaSAction-taking
All surfaces

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

Reactshadcn/uiArtifacts
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

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

CodeQLSemgrepAudit
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

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

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

ReactPatternsAPI design
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

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

ExpoReact NativeEAS
Code
Community

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

TDDTypeScript
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

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

ReviewSecurityPR
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

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