Claude Code Skills
A collection of custom skills for Claude Code that extend its capabilities for architecture documentation, diagramming, and presentation styling.
Skills
arch-describe
Plugin: architect
Generate structured IT architecture descriptions with ASCII diagrams from short prompts.
Usage: Ask Claude to describe, explain, or document the architecture of any IT system.
Output Structure:
- Overview - System purpose and high-level architecture
- Components - List of all components with descriptions
- Connections - Numbered list of integrations between components
- Diagram - ASCII diagram with annotated connections
Example:
Describe the architecture of a Kafka cluster
Includes reference documentation for 20+ common systems including Kafka, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL HA, Redis Cluster, Elasticsearch, and more.
arch-draw
Plugin: architect
Generate professional draw.io diagrams in XML format from architectural descriptions.
Usage: Ask Claude to create visual diagrams for system architecture, microservices, workflows, network topology, or data flows.
Capabilities:
- System architecture diagrams
- Microservices layouts
- Workflow/BPMN diagrams
- Network topology
- Data flow diagrams
Features:
- Grid-aligned layouts (10px grid)
- Arrow routing with collision avoidance
- Consistent color schemes
- Container/swimlane support
- Multiple architectural patterns (three-tier, event-driven, etc.)
Example:
Create a draw.io diagram for a microservices architecture with API Gateway, 3 services, message bus, and databases
pptx-core-style
Plugin: presentation
Corporate presentation style guide for core principles architecture slides. Provides a canonical visual language — color palette, typography scale, layout grid, and component styles — to use alongside the pptx skill.
Covers: NAVY/BLUE/ORANGE/STEEL color tokens, two-column layout with divider, content blocks with badges, tables with accent rows, key insight blocks, distribution bars, category descriptions with colored emphasis.
Example:
Create an architecture slide using pptx-core-style with three numbered content blocks and a comparison table
pptx-arch-style
Plugin: presentation
Architectural presentation style guide for architecture committee reviews. Defines a complete visual system adapted from a Google Slides "Modern Business" template.
Covers: title/section/content slide layouts, page number badge + red accent line, semantic status colors (done/planned/not verified), three table styles (checklist, status tracker, data), content boxes, numbered circles, category cards with left accent, stat callout funnels, flow and decision tree diagram conventions.
Example:
Create an architecture review deck using pptx-arch-style with a title slide, status tracker table, and flow diagram
offdesk
Plugin: obsidian
Push markdown files from any project into a Syncthing-synced Obsidian vault on phone/tablet for off-desk reading, then pull annotated >[!ai] callouts back to the source file. P2P only — no cloud, no bot.
Usage: Ask Claude to send a doc to offdesk for review, or to check feedback from your phone.
Example:
положи это в offdesk
посмотри оффдеск фидбэк
books
Plugin: reading
Push markdown files from any project to Apple Books on iPad as PDF for off-desk reading with Apple Pencil annotations. iCloud Drive → tap to open in Books. Push-only — pen marks stay with the human.
Usage: Ask Claude to send a doc to books for review on iPad.
Example:
send to books
положи это в books
почитаю на айпаде
Project Structure
Skills are grouped by domain under plugins/architect/skills/, plugins/presentation/skills/, plugins/obsidian/skills/, and plugins/reading/skills/:
