Claude Skills Vault: production workflows for Claude Code

Overview

Claude Skills Vault is a collection of production-ready skills for Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool. Each skill captures a workflow I run often enough that it needs to be automated: architecture reviews, TDD loops, commit discipline, PR preparation, dependency audits, and more.

Why this matters

Claude Code gets more useful the more opinionated you make it. Out of the box it is a general-purpose assistant, but with well-written skills it becomes a specialist that understands your standards and enforces them automatically. The vault is my attempt to bottle the habits of a senior engineer into repeatable, distributable units.

What is in the vault

• Architecture review. Analyzes a diff or a new file against common anti-patterns and flags concerns before code review.
• TDD loop. Writes the failing test first, then iterates implementation until it passes, then refactors.
• Commit discipline. Enforces commit message conventions, catches console.log leftovers, ensures no WIP code reaches main.
• PR preparation. Generates a clean PR description with context, test plan, and reviewer guidance.
• Dependency audit. Flags outdated, deprecated, or vulnerable dependencies.
• Security check. Catches common security foot-guns (SQL injection vectors, unsanitized HTML, secrets in code).

Design principles

Every skill in the vault follows three rules:

1. Deterministic where possible. If a check can be a grep or a regex, it is. The LLM is only invoked for judgment calls that require understanding context.
2. Fast to fail. Short feedback loops. A 5-second check run on every save beats a 5-minute check that runs once.
3. Composable. Skills are single-purpose so they can be chained or mixed with project-specific workflows.

Takeaway

The future of coding tools is less about generation and more about discipline. Claude Skills Vault is a bet on the latter: the winning AI workflow is one that makes you a more disciplined engineer, not a faster one.