A collection of skills that teach Claude new tricks
npx claudepluginhub christyjacob4/claude-tricksA collection of skills that teach Claude new tricks.
christyjacob4A collection of my favourite skills for Claude Code — some written by me, some sourced from the web.
| 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 processing — text/table extraction, figure extraction with bounding boxes, form filling, merging, creation, and OCR |
| 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 Line | Description |
|---|---|
| default | Two-line status bar — directory, git branch, model name (Claude orange), context window bar, and session cost |
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"
}
}
/pluginchristyjacob4/claude-tricksclaude-tricks pluginThis installs all skills and keeps them updated automatically.
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.