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Created July 6, 2026 20:27
Surfacing the skills you forgot you had — a toolbelt pattern (decision-card skill + checkpoint rule) that gets your agent using all 29 compound-engineering skills, not just the usual 9. Works for any large Claude Code plugin.

Surfacing the skills you forgot you had

A "toolbelt" pattern for large Claude Code plugins

compound-engineering ships 29 skills. Going back through my sessions, I was regularly reaching for about 9 of them. The other 20 weren't bad — I just never remembered they existed at the moment they'd actually help. The plugin's creator even wrote a "Hidden Gems" post about 5 skills people miss, which told me this isn't a "you're using it wrong" problem. It's a discovery problem.

Here's the fix I landed on, and how to reproduce it for any big skill/plugin library.


Claude Code Setup Audit Skill

A Claude Code skill that performs a comprehensive audit of your entire Claude Code configuration — surfacing dead weight, conflicts, stale rules, and wasted context tokens so you can keep your setup lean and effective.

Why This Exists

Claude Code configurations grow organically. You add a rule to fix a bad output, paste in a convention from a blog post, duplicate a preference across files without realizing it. Over time, your CLAUDE.md, skills, and settings accumulate cruft that eats context tokens without improving results.

This skill gives you a structured way to periodically audit everything and get an honest assessment of what to cut, merge, reword, or relocate.