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title: claude-skills overview
type: overview
updated: 2026-04-28
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# claude-skills — overview

Joint workshop where Vitya and Claude develop, test, and store Claude skills. Both editable sources (`skills/<name>/`) and built archives (`dist/<name>.skill`) live here, so a fresh machine can clone the repo and install every personal skill in one command.

## Components

- **`skills/`** — editable skill sources, one folder per skill (each with `SKILL.md` + optional `assets/`).
- **`dist/`** — built `.skill` archives, committed so installs don't need a build toolchain on the target.
- **`scripts/`** — `build.sh` / `build.ps1` (zip sources → archive), `install.sh` (copy sources → `~/.claude/skills/`).
- **`.wiki/`** — Karpathy LLM Wiki for design decisions and gotchas. See [CLAUDE.md](CLAUDE.md) for schema.
- **`.tasks/`** — task board (`STATUS.md`).
- **`CLAUDE.md`** — repo-level agent instructions (skill triggers).

## Where to look

- New here? → [concepts/repo-layout.md](concepts/repo-layout.md), then `README.md`.
- Working on a skill? → edit `skills/<name>/`, then `bash scripts/install.sh <name>` (or `pwsh scripts/build.ps1 <name>` to refresh the archive).
- Tracking work? → [.tasks/STATUS.md](../.tasks/STATUS.md).
- Made a non-trivial decision? → add a `concepts/<topic>.md` page, link from [index.md](index.md), append a line to [log.md](log.md).

## Cross-references

This page intentionally stays short. The substantive material lives in `concepts/` (decisions, gotchas) and the [index](index.md) catalog.