Mad Scientist Skills — Security skill for Claude Code
Claude Code plugin — 8 skills for architecture, security, observability, optimization, documentation, cognitive UX, and C4 diagramming.
How to install Mad Scientist Skills
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Mad Scientist Skills does
Claude Code plugin — 8 skills for architecture, security, observability, optimization, documentation, cognitive UX, and C4 diagramming.
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README
mad-scientist-skills
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[Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code) skills are slash-command capabilities that extend Claude Code with specialized knowledge. Install this plugin to get 10 skills for architecture auditing, architecture diagramming, code security analysis, performance optimization, pre-change measurement gating, observability assessment, documentation evaluation, cognitive interface review, pre-commit quality checks, and non-author artifact review.
Skills
| Skill | Description | Invoke |
|---|---|---|
| architecture-audit | Assess architectural patterns, dependency direction, bounded contexts, SOLID compliance, and structural health (beta) | /mad-scientist-skills:architecture-audit |
| c4 | Generate interactive C4 architecture diagrams as self-contained HTML | /mad-scientist-skills:c4 |
| cognitive-interface-audit | Find usability problems, mental model gaps, cognitive overload, and accessibility violations | /mad-scientist-skills:cognitive-interface-audit |
| documentation-audit | Evaluate documentation quality, structure, clarity, completeness, and audience fit | /mad-scientist-skills:documentation-audit |
| final-review | Pre-commit quality gate with code review, documentation check, and architecture diagram | /mad-scientist-skills:final-review |
| measure-before-optimize | Pre-change measurement gate for perf-sensitive functions — captures baseline and verifies regression stays within threshold | /mad-scientist-skills:measure-before-optimize |
| observability-audit | Assess monit |
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