engineering-advanced-skills
alirezarezvani/claude-skills
Index of 37 advanced engineering skills for agent design, RAG, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and platform operations.
What is engineering-advanced-skills?
A curated collection of 37 POWERFUL-tier engineering skills for Claude Code, Cursor, and other coding agents. Use this to browse and select advanced capabilities for complex architecture, automation, reliability engineering, and platform operations tasks.
- Index and organize 37 specialized engineering skills across agent design, RAG, MCP servers, CI/CD, database design, observability, security auditing, and reliability patterns
- Provide skill discovery for multi-agent architecture, workflow orchestration, API design, database optimization, and Kubernetes operations
- Enable systematic approaches to chaos engineering, feature flags, SLO/SLI design, secrets management, and pre-production auditing
- Support operational excellence through runbook generation, tech debt tracking, performance profiling, and dependency auditing
- Facilitate onboarding and knowledge transfer via codebase guides, interview system design, and task context tracking
How to install engineering-advanced-skills
npx skills add https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill engineering-advanced-skillsHow to use engineering-advanced-skills
- 1.Install the skill package via npx or your agent CLI
- 2.Read the specific skill SKILL.md file for the capability you need (e.g., /read engineering/skills/agent-designer/SKILL.md)
- 3.Load only the individual skill SKILL.md you require—do not load all 37 at once
- 4.Combine with engineering-team core skills as needed for your use case
- 5.Follow the skill's documented patterns and prompts for your specific task
Use cases
- Browse and select the right advanced skill when designing multi-agent systems or complex workflows
- Use Agent Designer or RAG Architect to plan sophisticated system architectures before implementation
- Apply SLO Architect and Chaos Engineering skills to build reliability and resilience into production systems
- Leverage CI/CD Pipeline Builder and Ship Gate for automated deployment gates and pre-production validation
- Use Database Designer and SQL Database Assistant for schema optimization and query performance tuning
- Senior engineers and architects designing complex systems
- DevOps and platform engineers building CI/CD pipelines and observability
- Reliability engineers implementing SLOs, chaos experiments, and incident response
- Teams managing large codebases, monorepos, or multi-service architectures
- Engineering leaders onboarding new developers or designing hiring pipelines
engineering-advanced-skills FAQ
Read the individual skill's SKILL.md file directly. For example, use /read engineering/skills/agent-designer/SKILL.md in Claude Code, or load the skill via your agent CLI. Load only the skill you need.
These are POWERFUL-tier skills designed for senior engineers, architects, and platform teams. Combine them with engineering-team core skills if you need foundational capabilities.
Yes. These skills are designed to compose. For example, use Agent Designer with RAG Architect, or combine SLO Architect with Chaos Engineering for reliability work.
engineering-advanced-skills contains 37 specialized, powerful capabilities for complex architecture and operations. engineering-team contains core foundational skills. Use both as needed.
The index is maintained by Alireza Rezvani. Check the version (currently 2.9.0) and GitHub repository for the latest skills and updates.
Full instructions (SKILL.md)
Source of truth, from alirezarezvani/claude-skills.
name: "engineering-advanced-skills" description: "Index of 37 advanced engineering agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenClaw. Use when browsing or choosing among the POWERFUL-tier engineering skills: agent design, RAG, MCP servers, CI/CD, database design, observability, security auditing, changelog/release automation, reliability (SLO/chaos/flags/operators), platform ops." version: 2.9.0 author: Alireza Rezvani license: MIT tags:
- engineering
- architecture
- agents
- rag
- mcp
- ci-cd
- observability agents:
- claude-code
- codex-cli
- openclaw
Engineering Advanced Skills (POWERFUL Tier)
37 advanced engineering skills for complex architecture, automation, reliability, and platform operations.
Quick Start
Claude Code
/read engineering/skills/agent-designer/SKILL.md
Codex CLI
npx agent-skills-cli add alirezarezvani/claude-skills/engineering
Skills Overview
| Skill | Folder | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Agent Designer | agent-designer/ | Multi-agent architecture: plan, schema-generate, evaluate |
| Agent Workflow Designer | agent-workflow-designer/ | Workflow orchestration scaffolds |
| API Design Reviewer | api-design-reviewer/ | REST/GraphQL linting, breaking changes |
| API Test Suite Builder | api-test-suite-builder/ | API test generation |
| Browser Automation | browser-automation/ | Playwright/Selenium automation patterns |
| Changelog Generator | changelog-generator/ | Changelogs, semantic version bumps, hotfix/rollback discipline |
| Chaos Engineering | chaos-engineering/ | Experiment design, blast-radius, postmortems |
| CI/CD Pipeline Builder | ci-cd-pipeline-builder/ | Pipeline generation |
| Codebase Onboarding | codebase-onboarding/ | New dev onboarding guides |
| Database Designer | database-designer/ | Schema analysis, index optimization, migrations |
| Database Schema Designer | database-schema-designer/ | ERD, normalization |
| Dependency Auditor | dependency-auditor/ | Dependency security scanning |
| Env Secrets Manager | env-secrets-manager/ | Secrets rotation, vault |
| Feature Flags Architect | feature-flags-architect/ | Flag debt, rollout plans, kill switches |
| Focused Fix | focused-fix/ | Systematic feature/module repair |
| Full Page Screenshot | full-page-screenshot/ | Full-page capture tooling |
| Git Worktree Manager | git-worktree-manager/ | Parallel branch workflows |
| Interview System Designer | interview-system-designer/ | Hiring pipeline design |
| Kubernetes Operator | kubernetes-operator/ | CRD validation, reconcile linting |
| MCP Server Builder | mcp-server-builder/ | MCP tool creation |
| Migration Architect | migration-architect/ | System migration planning |
| Monorepo Navigator | monorepo-navigator/ | Monorepo tooling |
| Observability Designer | observability-designer/ | Dashboards, alert noise (SLOs → slo-architect) |
| Performance Profiler | performance-profiler/ | CPU, memory, load profiling |
| PR Review Expert | pr-review-expert/ | Pull request analysis |
| RAG Architect | rag-architect/ | RAG design, chunking, retrieval evaluation |
| Runbook Generator | runbook-generator/ | Operational runbooks |
| Secrets Vault Manager | secrets-vault-manager/ | Vault patterns, HCL |
| Self-Eval | self-eval/ | Honest work-quality scoring |
| Ship Gate | ship-gate/ | Pre-production audit (89 checks) |
| Skill Security Auditor | skill-security-auditor/ | Skill vulnerability scanning |
| Skill Tester | skill-tester/ | Skill quality evaluation |
| SLO Architect | slo-architect/ | SLO/SLI design, error budgets, burn-rate alerts |
| Spec-Driven Workflow | spec-driven-workflow/ | Spec-first development gates |
| SQL Database Assistant | sql-database-assistant/ | Query optimization, 4 dialects |
| TC Tracker | tc-tracker/ | Task context lifecycle + handoffs |
| Tech Debt Tracker | tech-debt-tracker/ | Debt scan → prioritize → dashboard |
Note: release management merged into changelog-generator/ (version bumper + hotfix/rollback procedures live there now).
Rules
- Load only the specific skill SKILL.md you need
- These are advanced skills — combine with engineering-team/ core skills as needed
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