Agent skill

Class Organization And Layout

by kitchen-engineer42 in kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills

Organize class members in standard order, separate classes with blank lines, and maintain one-class-per-file structure.

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Install Class Organization And Layout

skills CLI
$ npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill class-organization-and-layout -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills class-organization-and-layout --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/'skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/class-organization-and-layout' .claude/skills/class-organization-and-layout && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
class-organization-and-layout
GitHub stars
134
Token cost
~626 tokens
SKILL.md length
290 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
21
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Organize class members in standard order, separate classes with blank lines, and maintain one-class-per-file structure.

  • Works in 5 steps: Header comment: Describes the class and… → Constructors and destructors → Public routines → …
  • Designing class interfaces
  • SKILL.md covers Class Interface Member Order, Class Implementation Member…, File-to-Class Relationship and Class Visual Separation, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Class Organization And Layout is an agent skill from kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills. Organize class members in standard order, separate classes with blank lines, and maintain one-class-per-file structure. Use when designing class interfaces, implementing classes, organizing project files, or establishing OOP coding standards.

Its SKILL.md is about 630 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Code quality. The repository describes itself as: Convert a book into skills directly callable to Claude Code.

When your agent uses it

  • Designing class interfaces
  • Implementing classes
  • Organizing project files
  • Establishing OOP coding standards

Example prompts

  • “/class-organization-and-layout”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Header comment: Describes the class and provides overall usage instructions
  2. Constructors and destructors
  3. Public routines
  4. Protected routines
  5. Private routines and member data

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0d70065. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Class Organization And Layout loads about 626 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 290 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~68
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~626

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 290 words (~626 tokens).

“Apply these principles to create consistent, maintainable class structures.”

— opening of SKILL.md by kitchen-engineer42
name
class-organization-and-layout

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/class-organization-and-layout of kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0d70065

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Categories

Questions about Class Organization And Layout

What does Class Organization And Layout do?

Organize class members in standard order, separate classes with blank lines, and maintain one-class-per-file structure. Class Organization And Layout is an agent skill from kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills. Organize class members in standard order, separate classes with blank lines, and maintain one-class-per-file structure.

When should I use Class Organization And Layout?

Class Organization And Layout fits situations like: designing class interfaces; implementing classes; organizing project files; establishing OOP coding standards.

How do I install Class Organization And Layout in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill class-organization-and-layout -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/class-organization-and-layout in kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills) into .claude/skills/class-organization-and-layout in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Class Organization And Layout in Codex?

Run `npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill class-organization-and-layout -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills_samples/Steve McConnell Code Complete A Practical Handbook of Software Construction_output/class-organization-and-layout in kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills) into .agents/skills/class-organization-and-layout in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Class Organization And Layout in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills --skill class-organization-and-layout -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/class-organization-and-layout, .gemini/skills/class-organization-and-layout, .github/skills/class-organization-and-layout and .opencode/skills/class-organization-and-layout in your project.

What does Class Organization And Layout need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Class Organization And Layout is instructions for the agent only.

Does Class Organization And Layout access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Class Organization And Layout safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Class Organization And Layout use?

No licence was found for Class Organization And Layout or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Class Organization And Layout use?

About 626 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Class Organization And Layout?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Class Organization And Layout: Install Anti-Slop Oxlint Rules (dmmulroy/anti-slop, 5.3k stars), WooCommerce Code Review (woocommerce/woocommerce, 11k stars), Systematic Code Refactoring (luongnv89/claude-howto, 42k stars) and Constraint-Driven Development (addyosmani/agent-skills, 103k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Class Organization And Layout?

kitchen-engineer42 (a GitHub user) maintains it in kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills, which has 134 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on February 24, 2026.

Source: kitchen-engineer42/pdf2skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.