claude-tricks

A collection of my favourite skills for Claude Code — some written by me, some sourced from the web.

Skills

Skill	Description
code-explainer	Explains codebases visually with ASCII architecture diagrams, code flow tracing, and interactive deep-dives
auto-research	Autonomous research loop — runs experiments on GPUs, keeps improvements, discards failures, and iterates until stopped
alphaxiv-paper-lookup	Look up any arxiv paper on alphaxiv.org to get a structured AI-generated overview
guided-learning	Adaptive tutor that traces prerequisites, assesses your level, and teaches using Socratic/Bloom's/Visual styles — with code examples and a shareable HTML page
frontend-design	Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality that avoids generic AI aesthetics
investigate	Deep investigation of bugs, performance issues, or unexpected behavior with parallel evidence collection and root cause analysis
debug	Systematically debug and fix failing tests, build errors, or runtime issues with aggressive parallelization
opentui	Comprehensive OpenTUI skill for building terminal user interfaces — covers core API, React reconciler, and Solid reconciler
slide-deck	Create stunning interactive HTML slide decks — researches papers (alphaxiv), extracts figures (pdf), builds D3.js charts and Anime.js animations with speaker notes
pdf	PDF processing — text/table extraction, figure extraction with bounding boxes, form filling, merging, creation, and OCR

Agents

Agent	Description
100x-engineer	Autonomous full-stack engineer — takes a requirement from idea to production-ready code with research, spikes, parallel execution, testing, security audit, and handoff report

Status Lines

Status Line	Description
default	Two-line status bar — directory, git branch, model name (Claude orange), context window bar, and session cost

Install a status line

git clone https://github.com/christyjacob4/claude-tricks.git
cd claude-tricks/statuslines/default
./install.sh

Or one-liner (no clone needed):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/christyjacob4/claude-tricks/main/statuslines/default/statusline.sh -o ~/.claude/statusline.sh && chmod +x ~/.claude/statusline.sh

Then add to ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "bash ~/.claude/statusline.sh"
  }
}

Install Skills

Option 1: Plugin (recommended)

1. Open Claude Code and run /plugin
2. Select Add Marketplace
3. Enter christyjacob4/claude-tricks
4. Install the claude-tricks plugin

This installs all skills and keeps them updated automatically.

Option 2: npx

Install all skills globally:

npx skills add christyjacob4/claude-tricks -g -y

Or install a specific skill:

npx skills add christyjacob4/claude-tricks -g -y --skill code-explainer

Preview available skills without installing:

npx skills add christyjacob4/claude-tricks --list

Skills are installed to ~/.claude/skills/ and available globally across all projects. No restart needed.

License

MIT