designer-with-taste

KV Skills

A collection of opinionated skills for Claude Code
Teaching Claude to do things with craft, not just correctness.

Install • Skills • How It Works • Add a Skill • Contributing

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Installation

claude plugin add karthikv792/kv-skills

All skills are automatically available in every Claude Code session.

Via Marketplace

/plugin marketplace add karthikv792/kv-skills

Manual Installation

git clone [email protected]:karthikv792/kv-skills.git ~/.claude/plugins/kv-skills

Skills

Skill	Description	Details
Designer With Taste	Design philosophy distilled from 212 real-world principle sets. Makes Claude build interfaces with genuine taste — intentional hierarchy, purposeful color, accessible markup, and opinionated craft.	README
Screenwriting Helper	Comprehensive screenwriting craft system distilled from Iglesias, Snyder, McKee, Campbell, and others. Covers ideation, character design, structure, scene craft, tension, polish, diagnostics, and Indian cinema traditions.	README

Have an idea for a skill? Open an issue or submit a PR.

How It Works

Claude Code plugins extend Claude's capabilities through skills — structured knowledge documents that Claude reads before performing tasks.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  You: "Build me a dashboard"                    │
│                                                 │
│  Claude detects: UI task                        │
│       ↓                                         │
│  Loads relevant skill(s) from kv-skills         │
│       ↓                                         │
│  Reads specialized references (dashboards,      │
│  dark mode, mobile, etc.)                       │
│       ↓                                         │
│  Builds with craft — not just correctness       │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Each skill lives in skills/<skill-name>/ and contains:

• SKILL.md — The core skill document Claude reads (required)
• README.md — Human-readable documentation for the skill
• references/ — Deep-dive reference material loaded on demand
• assets/, templates/ — Supporting files (CSS tokens, starter templates, etc.)

Project Structure

kv-skills/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── plugin.json              # Plugin metadata
├── skills/
│   ├── designer_with_taste/     # Design philosophy skill
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   ├── README.md
│   │   ├── references/          # 7 specialized reference files
│   │   ├── assets/              # Design token system
│   │   └── templates/           # HTML starter template
│   └── screenwriting_helper/    # Screenwriting craft skill
│       ├── SKILL.md
│       ├── README.md
│       └── references/          # 8 specialized reference files
├── LICENSE
└── README.md                    # You are here

Adding a Skill

Want to add a new skill to this collection? Here's the structure:

mkdir -p skills/your-skill-name

Create skills/your-skill-name/SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter:

---
name: your-skill-name
description: Use when [specific triggering conditions and symptoms]
---

# Your Skill Name

Your skill content here...

Add a README.md in the same directory to document the skill for humans.

Skill Guidelines

• Name: Use kebab-case with letters, numbers, and hyphens only
• Description: Start with "Use when..." — describe triggering conditions, not what the skill does
• Content: Focus on actionable knowledge — principles, checklists, patterns, code examples
• References: Put lengthy reference material in a references/ subdirectory
• Assets: Include reusable templates, tokens, or tools in assets/ or templates/

Contributing