Repository
rileyhilliard/claude-essentials agent skills
- skills
- 17
- GitHub stars
- 130
- Stars
- 130 (19 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Aug 2026
- Created
- Oct 2025
Install all skills
npx skills add rileyhilliard/claude-essentialsAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in rileyhilliard/claude-essentials, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prevents silent failures and context loss in error handling. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~632 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 2 | Defines product features from a PM perspective (JTBD, competitive research, scope negotiation) before technical planning. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 3 | Writes behavior-focused tests using Testing Trophy model with real dependencies. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~999 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 4 | Measure-first performance optimization that balances gains against complexity. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~470 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 5 | Guides clean, scalable system architecture during the build phase. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~713 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 6 | 6.Design Enforces precise, minimal design for dashboards and admin interfaces. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 7 | Diagnose and fix tests that pass in isolation but fail when run concurrently. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 8 | Guides database architecture for PostgreSQL, DuckDB, Parquet, PGVector, and Neo4j. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 9 | Guides GitHub Actions CI/CD architecture, security hardening, and deployment strategies. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 10 | 10.Post Mortem Review a completed session to extract actionable improvements. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 11 | Produces executive-quality strategic documents in The Economist/HBR style. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 12 | Selects and applies journalistic story structures (WSJ Formula, Inverted Pyramid, Hourglass, Tick-Tock). | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 13 | Creates professional Mermaid diagrams with semantic styling and visual hierarchy. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~624 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 14 | 14.Writer Writing style and tone guide for human-sounding content. An agent skill from rileyhilliard/claude-essentials. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 15 | 15.Writing SQL Staff+ DBA SQL patterns targeting what Claude's defaults miss - multi-column statistics, operator classes, keyset pagination, silent performance anti-patterns. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~627 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 16 | Debugging framework that finds root causes before proposing fixes. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~358 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 17 | Executes implementation plans directly with a verification gate and conditional code review. | rileyhilliard/ | 130 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in rileyhilliard/claude-essentials?
Handling Errors from rileyhilliard/claude-essentials ranks first of the 17 skills in rileyhilliard/claude-essentials listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 130 GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 632 tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Planning Products and Writing Tests.
Are the skills in rileyhilliard/claude-essentials official?
None yet. All 17 skills in rileyhilliard/claude-essentials listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How do I install all skills from rileyhilliard/claude-essentials?
Run npx skills add rileyhilliard/claude-essentials in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.