Micro Skills

micro-skill-pipeline

**Stop writing 200-line skills that Claude skims. Split them into 5 small steps with hard gates.**

The Problem

Large SKILL.md files (100-300+ lines) get partially read, partially followed, and produce inconsistent output. Claude skips sections, forgets constraints, and rationalizes "good enough" as done. There's no checkpoint, no verification, no learning from past mistakes.

The Solution

This plugin converts any monolithic skill into a **5-stage gated pipeline**:

Stage	What happens	Gate
1. Scope	Extract constraints from the request	Can I state the deliverable in one sentence?
2. Plan	Design the approach, check failure log	Does every constraint map to a component?
3. Build	Execute with micro-checks per component	Did every component pass its micro-check?
4. Check	Hard gate -- binary YES/NO questions	ALL questions YES. Any NO = fix first.
5. Deliver	Clean up and present output	Output in final location? Summary concise?

Each stage is a separate file under 40 lines. Claude reads one at a time, completes it, passes its gate, then reads the next. **No skipping ahead.**

The Check step is the hard gate. It contains specific, binary questions -- not "ensure quality" but "does every endpoint have error handling? YES or NO." Any NO means fix before proceeding.

A **failure log** compounds learnings over time. Every time a Check gate catches something, the pattern gets recorded. Next run, Claude reads those patterns before starting.

Installation

From local directory

claude install-plugin /path/to/micro-skill-pipeline

From GitHub marketplace

# Add the marketplace (one-time)
claude plugin marketplace add github:stevesolun/micro-skill-pipeline

# Install the plugin
claude plugin install micro-skill-pipeline

Quick Start

1. Convert an existing skill

/skill-convert api-design

Just pass the skill name -- the p