The latest articles on DEV Community by Atur Dana (@aturzone). https://dev.to/aturzone https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4043705%2Fe6af641e-6b44-4f99-98b1-3516695ba57b.png https://dev.to/aturzone en Atur Dana Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:53:28 +0000 https://dev.to/aturzone/skull-skills-1lnb https://dev.to/aturzone/skull-skills-1lnb <p>A free, open-source Claude Code team. Say "skull" and a leader interviews you, maps your project, and assembles a tailored team — Sentinel the project cartographer plus planning, review, understanding and guardrail specialists — then runs it on your work. It also keeps itself (and you) current with the newest Claude Code features.</p> <p>No account. No API key. No vault. It's just markdown you drop into .claude/ — everything is local, plain text, and open.</p> <div class="ltag-github-readme-tag"> <div class="readme-overview"> <h2> <img src="https://assets.dev.to/assets/github-logo-5a155e1f9a670af7944dd5e12375bc76ed542ea80224905ecaf878b9157cdefc.svg" alt="GitHub logo"> <a href="https://github.com/aturzone" rel="noopener noreferrer"> aturzone </a> / <a href="https://github.com/aturzone/Skull" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Skull </a> </h2> <h3> A free, open-source Claude Code team. Say "skull" and a leader interviews you, maps your project, and assembles a tailored team — Sentinel the project cartographer plus planning, review, understanding and guardrail specialists — then runs it on your work. It also keeps itself (and you) current with the newest Claude Code features. </h3> </div> <div class="ltag-github-body"> <div id="readme" class="md"><div class="markdown-heading"> <h1 class="heading-element"> <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://github.com/aturzone/Skull/.github/skull-logo.svg"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Faturzone%2FSkull%2FHEAD%2F.github%2Fskull-logo.svg" alt="Skull" width="100"></a>&nbsp; SKULL </h1> </div> <p><strong>A free, open-source Claude Code team.</strong> Say <strong>"skull"</strong> and a <em>leader</em> interviews you, maps your project, and assembles a tailored team — <strong>Sentinel</strong> the project cartographer plus planning, review understanding and guardrail specialists — then runs it on your work. It also keeps itself (and you) current with the newest Claude Code features.</p> <p>No account. No API key. No vault. It's just markdown you drop into <code>.claude/</code> — everything is local, plain text, and open.</p> <p><strong>Safe by default.</strong> Adding SKULL runs <strong>nothing</strong> — it's inert markdown. There are <strong>no</strong> autonomous runners and no background daemons; every capability works interactively under Claude Code's normal permission prompts, nothing auto-starts, and no data leaves your machine. Its guardrails are guidance by default; a few can be <strong>armed</strong> as opt-in <code>PreToolUse</code> hooks that hard-block the riskiest moves (weakening a test, irreversible shell on a prod box) — off until you switch them on…</p></div> </div> <div class="gh-btn-container"><a class="gh-btn" href="https://github.com/aturzone/Skull" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub</a></div> </div> ai programming opensource coding