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The best Claude skills for planning and architecture
Start with grill-me from Matt Pocock if your plan still has open questions: it ties for the top score here, 84, has nearly 1.5 million installs, and has Claude question your plan hard before you build. It needs the separate grilling skill. The list also covers writing-plans, PM Skills for product managers, Compound Engineering, design doc reviews, game studio stages and product specs.
The 15 skills made for this job
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Get grill-megrill-me
For people who want Claude to question a plan or design hard before they build it. Skip it if you have not also installed the separate grilling skill.
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Get writing-planswriting-plans
For developers who give Claude a spec and want a test-first build plan before any code is written. Skip it for small fixes you could make in one step.
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3 Get grill-with-docs
grill-with-docs
For people who want a plan or design questioned hard, with decision records and a glossary written along the way. Skip it if your plan is already settled.
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4 Get brainstorming
brainstorming
For anyone who wants Claude to pin down what they really want before it builds. Skip it if your requests are already precise and you want work to start at once.
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Get flutter-apply-architecture-best-practicesflutter-apply-architecture-best-practices
For Flutter developers starting an app, or untangling one where widgets fetch their own data. Skip it if your team has settled on a different architecture.
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Get PM SkillsPM Skills
For product managers and founders who want PRDs, strategy canvases and launch plans drafted in a set format. Skip it if you don't own product decisions or already have templates.
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Get Compound EngineeringCompound Engineering
For developers who want Claude to plan, build, review and ship work in fixed stages with saved plans. Skip it if you prefer quick ad hoc edits without a process.
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Get planning-with-filesplanning-with-files
For people running long, multi-step tasks who want the plan saved to disk and restored after context resets. Skip it for quick questions or single-file edits.
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Get Claude Code Game StudiosClaude Code Game Studios
For solo or small-team game developers who want a staged studio process from concept to release. Skip it if you just want help with one script in your engine.
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Get spec-driven-implementationspec-driven-implementation
For teams building large features who want PRODUCT.md and TECH.md specs checked in before and during coding. Skip it for small bug fixes or if you do not track work in Linear.
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11 Get write-product-spec
write-product-spec
For teams that want a behavior-first PRODUCT.md spec written before a feature is built. Skip it if the change is a small fix or you need a technical design doc.
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Get cross-border-ecommercecross-border-ecommerce
For online sellers planning their first or next foreign market. Skip it if you need final tax or legal advice, which the skill says it does not give.
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Get Khazix SkillsKhazix Skills
For Chinese-speaking users who want goal briefs for long agent runs, plus cleanup and research helpers. Skip it if you need instructions written in English.
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Get Elephant Goldfish ModelElephant Goldfish Model
For engineers who write design docs before building and want fresh-eyed agent reviewers. Skip it if you go straight from idea to code without a written spec.
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Get multi-agent-reviewmulti-agent-review
For teams who want a written spec or plan checked by several reviewers before any code is built. Skip it if you want code reviewed, since it only reads specs and plans.
Also useful for planning
Their main job is something else, but they help with this one.
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Get sanity-migrationsanity-migration
For teams moving content from WordPress, Contentful, Drupal, AEM or Markdown into Sanity. Skip it if you are not targeting Sanity or only need to edit an existing schema.
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Get vue-best-practicesvue-best-practices
For Vue 3 developers who want Claude to use the Composition API with TypeScript and plan components before coding. Skip it if your project is not Vue or sticks to the Options API.
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Get ARIS (Auto Research In Sleep)ARIS (Auto Research In Sleep)
For ML researchers who want agents to plan experiments, review drafts with a second model and outline papers. Skip it if you don't want drafts sent to another provider.
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Get gstackgstack
For people running Garry Tan's gstack workflows on Capy cloud machines or Claude Code. Skip it if you want one standalone skill or do not want an installer that clones and updates code.
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Get karpathy-guidelineskarpathy-guidelines
For developers who want Claude to ask before guessing, keep changes small and prove work with tests. Skip it for quick throwaway scripts where the caution slows you down.
How to choose
grill-me and grill-with-docs both question your plan, and both run only when you call them. The first hands off to the grilling skill. The second also writes decision records and a glossary through the domain-modeling skill. Neither works without its companion skills installed.
writing-plans starts once you have a spec and splits the work into test-first tasks with exact file paths. It needs a Superpowers skill such as executing-plans. brainstorming comes earlier and asks one question per message; at least one scanner rated it and planning-with-files high risk.
PM Skills suits product managers and founders. Its 69 skills run from discovery to growth, and create-prd writes a one to two page PRD in eight sections, marking unknowns as assumptions. Compound Engineering is for developers: ce-plan writes a plan without production code, then ce-work carries it out.
For design docs, Google's Elephant Goldfish Model drafts one section at a time and sends the draft to fresh reviewer subagents. Warp's write-product-spec writes a behavior-first PRODUCT.md, and spec-driven-implementation needs the Linear MCP server. multi-agent-review has a high-risk scanner result.
Some picks fit one field. Claude Code Game Studios runs a game project in stages, from concept to release. flutter-apply-architecture-best-practices lays out Flutter apps in three layers. cross-border-ecommerce scores foreign markets for online sellers, and Khazix Skills writes goal briefs for long agent runs, mostly in Chinese.