Staff Engineer — Claude Code skills for builders

The difference<br>Prompts improvise. Skills ship.

Asking Claude to "set up CI" gives you a different answer every time. Staff Engineer gives you the same production-grade stack, wired the correct way, on demand.

Raw prompting<br>Re-explain your stack every session. Hope it remembers OrbStack, Doppler, the CI shape. Different output each run.

Staff Engineer<br>One command runs a real, battle-tested script. Scaffold apps, wire CI/CD, set up observability, audit your toolchain — deterministic, every time.

The pack<br>Opinionated. Deterministic. Done.

Each skill is a real script the AI runs — not a paragraph it improvises. Same stack every time, the way a senior engineer would actually wire it.

/squidapp<br>ready

Scaffold a full app: Next.js + NestJS/Prisma + Postgres, OrbStack magic domains (no port clashes), Doppler secrets, husky pre-commit, parallel PR CI — in one command.

$ /squidapp payments-api

/squidops<br>ready · free

Devops toolchain doctor. Checks brew, git, gh, doctl, Doppler, New Relic, wrangler are installed and authenticated. Offers installs, explains every login.

$ /squidops

/squidci<br>coming

GitHub Actions that test, build images, and auto-deploy to DigitalOcean on push to main. Zero-to-pipeline.

$ /squidci

/squidmon<br>coming

Observability in minutes: New Relic health checks, dashboards, and alert channels wired to email + Slack.

$ /squidmon

/squidpush<br>coming

Real-time out of the box: live updates, presence, and broadcast channels over the Pusher protocol — hosted, or self-hosted with Soketi in your own infra.

$ /squidpush

/squidflow<br>coming

Durable workflows & background jobs with Inngest — scheduled tasks, retries, and multi-step flows, local in Docker for dev and cloud in prod.

$ /squidflow

How it works<br>Three minutes to a sharper Claude.

Download the pack<br>One zip. No accounts, no telemetry, no runtime. Yours forever.

Run the installer<br>./install.sh symlinks every skill into ~/.claude/skills. Idempotent — re-run anytime.

Just build<br>Type /squidapp in any session, or let Claude trigger skills by description. It now ships like you do.

See how it all works, end to end →

Who's behind it<br>Written by someone who's been paged at 3am.

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Built by a staff engineer with decades in Silicon Valley shipping complete, high-performing systems. Every skill encodes a real, opinionated workflow — not a generic tutorial. You're buying judgment, packaged.

Questions<br>FAQ

What exactly do I get?A downloadable zip of Claude Code skills plus an installer. Each skill bundles the scripts and templates it runs. It's a one-time purchase — a digital copy you own, not a subscription.

Do skills get updated after I buy?Yes — that's the point of owning it. Skills are continuously refined as tooling evolves, and new skills are added to the pack over time . Buyers get every update and every new skill, no extra charge. Re-run ./install.sh and you're current.

Do I need anything special?Claude Code, and (for the infra skills) the usual macOS dev tooling — brew, Docker via OrbStack, Doppler. The free /squidops skill checks all of it for you and tells you what's missing.

Is there a free version?Yes. Join the early-access list and /squidops is yours free — a genuinely useful toolchain doctor. The full pack (scaffolding, CI, observability) is the paid product.

How is this different from just prompting Claude?Prompts improvise. These skills run deterministic scripts — the same battle-tested stack, wired the same correct way, every time. Less "please set up CI" and re-explaining; more /squidci and done.

When does it launch?Soon. Two skills are ready today; more land before launch. Join the list to get notified, vote on what ships next, and lock in early-access pricing.

Give your AI a staff engineer's instincts.

Buy once, own it forever — every refinement and new skill included. Get the free skill now, the full pack first.

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