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Ape Skills — Development skill for Claude Code

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Skills for apes like us, so we can do our jobs better and make our lives easier.

How to install Ape Skills

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open arpitbbhayani/ape-skills and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Ape Skills does

Skills for apes like us, so we can do our jobs better and make our lives easier.

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README

Ape Skills

Skills for apes like us, so we can do our jobs better and make our lives easier.

Installation

Install a skill with `npx skills`.

npx skills add https://github.com/arpitbbhayani/ape-skills/tree/master/

For example, to install `ape-cut-fluff`:

npx skills add https://github.com/arpitbbhayani/ape-skills/tree/master/ape-cut-fluff

Or you can download the skill directory and copy it into your Claude skills folder:

cp -r ape-cut-fluff ~/.claude/skills/

Each subdirectory is a self-contained skill and can be installed individually.

Usage

Just say `ape ...` and the matching skill takes over. For example, `ape cut fluff` triggers the fluff-cutting skill.

You can also tag a skill explicitly with `/skill`, e.g. `/ape-cut-fluff`.

Skills

Skill	Description
ape-commit	Formats git commit messages with a crisp summary and imperative bullets.
ape-style-markdown	Applies consistent, professional Markdown formatting rules to any output.
ape-write-pseudocode	Writes high-level pseudocode for functions and algorithms.
ape-cut-fluff	Strips fluff and redundancy to drive writing to the bare minimum word count.
ape-plan-project	Splits a spec into phases, each with a full product + engineering design doc for agent handoff.
ape-poke-holes	Adversarially attacks design docs and specs. Finds failure modes, unstated assumptions, and scale cliffs -- no praise, no solutions, only holes.
ape-help-me-understand	Digests dense content in