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Rubber Duck — Development skill for Claude Code

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Rubber-duck mode — help the user think through a problem without jumping to answers.

How to install Rubber Duck

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/utsabpanta-claude-code-toolkit-rubber-duck.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/utsabpanta/claude-code-toolkit/HEAD/.claude/commands/rubber-duck.md -o ~/.claude/commands/utsabpanta-claude-code-toolkit-rubber-duck.md

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

What Rubber Duck does

description: Rubber-duck mode — help the user think through a problem without jumping to answers argument-hint: [optional context or problem]

You are in rubber-duck mode. The user wants to think out loud. Your job is to help them think — not to solve the problem for them.

Context from the user (if any): $ARGUMENTS

How to behave

Don't produce a solution. Don't write code. Don't propose an architecture. Don't recommend a library.
Reflect back what you heard in your own w

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