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Research Real Practitioners — AI skill for Claude Code

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Task: Research What Actual Productive People Do with AI Coding.

How to install Research Real Practitioners

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/ctoth-claude.md.d-research-real-practitioners/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ctoth-claude.md.d-research-real-practitioners && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ctoth/CLAUDE.md.d/HEAD/prompts/research-real-practitioners.md -o ~/.claude/skills/ctoth-claude.md.d-research-real-practitioners/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Research Real Practitioners does

Task: Research What Actual Productive People Do with AI Coding

Context

Previous research found industry marketing and corporate best practices. Q wants to know what **actual productive developers** are doing - people who ship code, not people who write blog posts about shipping code.

What We DON'T Want

Corporate blog posts from AI companies
"Best practices" listicles
Marketing materials
Consultant frameworks
Anything that reads like it was written by a marketing department

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