Claude Code Setup and Hooks skills for Claude Code and Codex
Skills for configuring coding agents at the project level: writing and auditing CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files, Copilot instruction files, Claude Code hooks, slash commands, plugin settings and structure, settings audits, harness engineering and automation recommendations. They make an agent's behavior in a repository explicit and repeatable.
Highest-scoring Claude Code setup skills in the October 22, 2026 snapshot: using-superpowers from obra/superpowers (84/100) and init from mcollina/skills (75/100). Scores come from the Suede Skill Check.
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19 from official publishers. 5 bundle scripts. 0 connect to an outside service. Listed in AI Agents and LLM Engineering (22), Developer Tools and Frameworks (5), Code Review and Code Quality (2), Frontend and Design (1), Writing and Editing (1).
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| Skill | Repository | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| init 75/100 · C | mcollina/skills | Creates, updates, or optimizes a repository's AGENTS.md file with minimal instructions on conventions, tooling quirks, and rules agents cannot infer from the code. |
| using-superpowers 84/100 · B | obra/superpowers | Establishes how to find and use skills at the start of any conversation, requiring skill invocation before any response, including clarifying questions. |
| acreadiness-generate-instructions 69/100 · D | github/awesome-copilot | Generate tailored AI agent instruction files via AgentRC instructions command. Produces .github/copilot-instructions.md (default, recommended for… |
| agent-development 86/100 · B | anthropics/claude-plugins-official | This skill should be used when the user asks to "create an agent", "add an agent", "write a subagent", "agent frontmatter", "when to use… |
| agent-evaluation 64/100 · D | NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit | Evaluate and improve Claude Code commands, skills, and agents. Use when testing prompt effectiveness, validating context engineering choices, or… |
| agents-md 75/100 · C | getsentry/skills | Creates and maintains concise AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md project instruction files. Use when asked to create AGENTS.md, update AGENTS.md, maintain… |
| agents-md 87/100 · B | mblode/agent-skills | Audits and edits agent instruction files, verifies repository commands, and migrates repositories to AGENTS.md as the single shared source. Use when… |
| ai-ready 74/100 · C | github/awesome-copilot | Make any repo AI-ready — analyzes your codebase and generates AGENTS.md, copilot-instructions.md, CI workflows, issue templates, and more. Mines… |
| claude-automation-recommender 81/100 · B | anthropics/claude-plugins-official | Analyze a codebase and recommend Claude Code automations (hooks, subagents, skills, plugins, MCP servers). Use when user asks for automation… |
| claude-md-improver 84/100 · B | anthropics/claude-plugins-official | Audit and improve CLAUDE.md files in repositories. Use when user asks to check, audit, update, improve, or fix CLAUDE.md files. Scans for all… |
| claude-settings-audit 78/100 · C | getsentry/skills | Analyze a repository to generate recommended Claude Code settings.json permissions. Use when setting up a new project, auditing existing settings… |
| command-development 76/100 · C | anthropics/claude-plugins-official | This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a slash command", "add a command", "write a custom command", "define command arguments"… |
| copilot-instructions-blueprint-generator 77/100 · C | github/awesome-copilot | Technology-agnostic blueprint generator for creating comprehensive copilot-instructions.md files that guide GitHub Copilot to produce code… |
| create-agentsmd 73/100 · C | github/awesome-copilot | Prompt for generating an AGENTS.md file for a repository |
| create-command 68/100 · D | NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit | Interactive assistant for creating new Claude commands with proper structure, patterns, and MCP tool integration |
| create-rule 70/100 · C | NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit | Use when found gap or repetative issue, that produced by you or implemenataion agent. Esentially use it each time when you say "You absolutly right… |
| create-workflow-command 68/100 · D | NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit | Create a workflow command that orchestrates multi-step execution through sub-agents with file-based task prompts |
| git-guardrails-claude-code 77/100 · C | mattpocock/skills | Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, etc.) before they execute. Use when user wants to… |
| harness-engineering 77/100 · C | github/awesome-copilot | Adopt repository-level harness engineering for coding agents. Use when a user wants to prevent repeated AI coding-agent mistakes by turning failures… |
| harness-engineering 81/100 · B | muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering | This skill should be used when designing autonomous agent harnesses: research loops, evaluation scaffolds, locked and editable surfaces, durable… |
| hook-development 78/100 · C | anthropics/claude-plugins-official | This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a hook", "add a PreToolUse/PostToolUse/Stop hook", "validate tool use", "implement… |
| md-starter 70/100 · C | infrasity-labs/dev-gtm-claude-skills | Generates a fully structured, project-specific CLAUDE.md by scanning the repo for signal files (package.json, Makefile, .github/workflows/… |
| memorize 66/100 · D | NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit | Curates insights from reflections and critiques into CLAUDE.md using Agentic Context Engineering |
| migrate-to-codex 69/100 · D | openai/skills | Migrate supported instruction files, skills, agents, and MCP config into Codex project and global files. |
| plugin-settings 78/100 · C | anthropics/claude-plugins-official | This skill should be used when the user asks about "plugin settings", "store plugin configuration", "user-configurable plugin", ".local.md files"… |
| plugin-structure 84/100 · B | anthropics/claude-plugins-official | This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a plugin", "scaffold a plugin", "understand plugin structure", "organize plugin components"… |
| review-claudemd 65/100 · D | ykdojo/claude-code-tips | Review recent conversations to find improvements for CLAUDE.md files. |
| session-report 67/100 · D | anthropics/claude-plugins-official | Generate an explorable HTML report of Claude Code session usage (tokens, cache, subagents, skills, expensive prompts) from ~/.claude/projects… |
| skill-development 73/100 · C | anthropics/claude-plugins-official | This skill should be used when the user wants to "create a skill", "add a skill to plugin", "write a new skill", "improve skill description"… |
| suggest-awesome-github-copilot-instructions 69/100 · D | github/awesome-copilot | Suggest relevant GitHub Copilot instruction files from the awesome-copilot repository based on current repository context and chat history, avoiding… |
| testing-handbook-generator 88/100 · B | trailofbits/skills | Generates Claude Code skills from the Trail of Bits Testing Handbook (appsec.guide), analyzing handbook pages and emitting SKILL.md files with the… |
How to choose Claude Code setup skills
Start with the instruction file. agents-md, claude-md-improver, init and review-claudemd keep CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md short and accurate, which affects every task in that repository.
Hooks run code on every matching event. hook-development and git-guardrails-claude-code explain the event types; test a new hook in one project before you add it to global settings.
Plugin and command skills from anthropics/claude-plugins-official follow Claude Code's current plugin format. Use them when you package commands, agents and hooks for a team rather than editing settings by hand.
Related topics
Documentation and READMEs 42MCP Servers 82Agent Safety and Guardrails 27Codex, Cursor and Coding Agents 23Subagents and Multi-Agent Orchestration 40Agent Tracing and Observability 41AI Agent Builders 56Context Engineering and Agent Memory 31
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