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PopKit Documentation

Skills

Skills

Section titled “Skills”

Skills are reusable automation workflows that encapsulate common development tasks. PopKit currently includes 50 skills across 4 plugins.

What are Skills?

Section titled “What are Skills?”

Skills in PopKit are:

  • Reusable: Can be invoked from multiple contexts
  • Composable: Can call other skills
  • Documented: Include usage examples and parameters
  • Testable: Have defined input/output contracts
  • Tiered: Exposed directly (/pop-*) and through workflow commands (/popkit-*)

Skill Categories

Section titled “Skill Categories”

Planning & Execution

Section titled “Planning & Execution”
  • pop-brainstorming: Design exploration and specification refinement
  • pop-writing-plans: Structured implementation plan generation
  • pop-executing-plans: Controlled batch execution with checkpoints
  • pop-finish-branch: End-of-work branch finalization flow

Routines & Context

Section titled “Routines & Context”
  • pop-morning: Start-of-day health and readiness workflow
  • pop-nightly: End-of-day cleanup and session capture workflow
  • pop-session-capture: Persist working context for next session
  • pop-session-resume: Restore previous context

Quality & Operations

Section titled “Quality & Operations”
  • pop-assessment-security: Security posture assessment
  • pop-code-review: Risk-focused code review
  • pop-systematic-debugging: Structured debugging methodology
  • pop-benchmark-runner: Controlled benchmark and analysis runs

Project & Platform

Section titled “Project & Platform”
  • pop-analyze-project: Architecture and pattern analysis
  • pop-project-init: Project bootstrap and Claude config setup
  • pop-project-reference: Cross-project context loading
  • pop-power-mode: Multi-agent orchestration

Using Skills

Section titled “Using Skills”

Skills can be invoked in several ways:

From Commands

Section titled “From Commands”
Terminal window
/popkit-dev:next
# Internally uses pop-next-action plus command-layer formatting/flow

From Agents

Section titled “From Agents”

Agents can invoke skills as part of their workflows.

Directly (Advanced)

Section titled “Directly (Advanced)”
Terminal window
/pop-next-action
/pop-assessment-security
/skill invoke pop-next-action

Depending on Claude Code client version and settings, direct-skill entries may appear as bare /pop-* aliases or only via /skill invoke.

Creating Custom Skills

Section titled “Creating Custom Skills”

Skills are defined in SKILL.md format with:

  1. Frontmatter: Metadata and configuration
  2. Description: What the skill does
  3. Usage: How to use the skill
  4. Examples: Real-world usage examples

See the Custom Skills Guide for details.

Next Steps

Section titled “Next Steps”