The Beginner's Arsenal

Everything starts here. It's your lead developer, writing 90% of the code. Install it first — all other skills serve under it.

Claude Code is the brain, Codex is the hands. Brain plans, hands execute. Also has vision — can view images and recognize interfaces.

Without web access, AI is just an offline dictionary. Install web-access MCP and Claude Code can search, read docs, browse the web. These are your 'eyes'.

Starting from zero every conversation? Install memory. Claude remembers your projects, preferences, decisions. Gets smarter with use. Without it, you repeat yourself every time.

Screenshots/designs/UI — AI needs to see. With vision, Claude analyzes designs, identifies bug screenshots, understands user feedback images.

Enforced TDD + auto code review. Tests before implementation, auto review before commit. Your quality gate. 134k stars, the strongest AI coding standards system.

Andrej Karpathy's 4 coding rules: think before coding, keep it simple, don't over-abstract, make it work then optimize. Injected into Claude Code as behavioral guidelines.

Auto-run full test suite on every change. Can't merge without passing. Your safety net — with it, you can let AI boldly modify code.

Not a tool, a habit. After every feature: check → run → verify → confirm no bugs → continue. Build this habit, bug rate drops 80%. This is the core of the quality assurance layer.

Need a skill that doesn't exist? Create it yourself. Describe requirements in natural language → auto-generate cross-platform skills. Your capability ceiling is no longer limited by existing skill libraries.

Don't know what skills are available? find-skills searches global skill libraries, tells you 'these skills can help'. Your skill radar — continuously scanning, continuously discovering.

53 engineering skills bundled: from requirements to architecture to code review to deployment. Garry Tan 118K-star methodology + AI execution. Install it — you alone are a complete engineering team.

The 'yellow pages' of the Claude Code ecosystem. Index of all skills, MCPs, workflows. Search here when you don't know what to use. Continuously updated, follow the community.

Three major skill repos: claude-skills / agent-skills / ai-skills. Covers coding, design, writing, analysis, automation. Your ammunition depot. Check regularly for new skills.

AI-written Chinese is instantly recognizable — too neat, no warmth, like a textbook. Humanizer-zh makes your copy read like a real person wrote it. Critical for launching in the Chinese market.

Products need images — hero images, screenshots, social media cards. AI image prompting is a skill. This helps you write great image prompts.

Claude auto-selects colors, fonts, spacing. You don't need to be a designer — say 'I want a tech feel' and it generates aesthetic UI automatically. This is your designer.

Turn complex ideas into mind maps. Product architecture, user flows, market analysis — one-click visualization. A picture is worth a thousand words when explaining your product.

Model Context Protocol — the standard for AI connecting to everything. Databases, APIs, file systems, browsers — all connectable via MCP. Install the right MCP Server and Claude Code controls any tool. Your 'infinite expansion slot'.

Community-maintained MCP server directory. 83k stars. Covers CAD, databases, design tools, cloud services — hundreds of ready connectors. Find what you need, install, use.

Install Firecrawl MCP, Claude can scrape any webpage, analyze data, monitor changes. This is the MCP implementation of the L6 Data Intelligence layer in our architecture.

GitHub Trending + Reddit r/ClaudeCode + X #ClaudeCode. Spend 5 minutes daily checking community recommendations. Know instantly when good skills appear. This is how 'real-time tracking' works in our architecture.