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software-design-philosophy-skill

by luoling8192✓ Verified

Claude Code skill: Software design philosophy guide based on A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout

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Installation

Add to your Claude Code skills directory:

# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/luoling8192/software-design-philosophy-skill

Getting Started

Guides for using skills like software-design-philosophy-skill.

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  "status": "PASSED",
  "issues": []
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README.md

software-design-philosophy

A reusable agent skill based on John Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design.

What it does

This skill provides design philosophy guidance during:

  • Code reviews
  • Architecture discussions
  • API design
  • Module decomposition decisions
  • Refactoring
  • Naming and commenting improvements
  • Error handling strategy

Installation

Claude Code

claude install-skill luoling8192/software-design-philosophy-skill

Codex

codex skills add luoling8192/software-design-philosophy-skill

Skills.sh (Vercel)

npx skills add luoling8192/software-design-philosophy-skill

License

MIT

Frequently Asked Questions

What is software-design-philosophy-skill?⌄

software-design-philosophy-skill is an open-source ide extensions skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by luoling8192. Claude Code skill: Software design philosophy guide based on A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. It has 336 GitHub stars.

Is software-design-philosophy-skill safe to use?⌄

Yes. software-design-philosophy-skill passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.

How do I install software-design-philosophy-skill?⌄

Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/luoling8192/software-design-philosophy-skill" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above). software-design-philosophy-skill ships a SKILL.md manifest, so compatible agents can discover and load it automatically.

Are there alternatives to software-design-philosophy-skill?⌄

Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other IDE Extensions skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the IDE Extensions category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh software-design-philosophy-skill against similar tools.

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