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10 Claude Code skills that cut my development time in half — now on Product Hunt

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Today we launched on Product Hunt. One of the products is the Ship Fast Skill Pack — 10 Claude Code skills that automate the parts of development that eat the most time.

What Claude Code skills are

Skills are instruction files that Claude Code loads on-demand via the Skill tool. Think of them as SOPs — standard operating procedures — for how to approach specific types of tasks.

Instead of prompting Claude from scratch every time, you invoke a skill:

/tdd         → test-driven development workflow
/debug       → systematic debugging protocol
/review-pr   → code review checklist
/plan        → architecture planning before implementation
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The skill loads its full instruction set and Claude follows it precisely.

The 10 skills in the Ship Fast Pack

  1. TDD — Red/green/refactor loop, never skips the failing test step
  2. Systematic Debugging — Root cause analysis before jumping to fixes
  3. Architecture Planning — Forces a plan before writing any code
  4. PR Review — SOLID principles, security checks, logic defects
  5. Verification — Evidence-based completion checks before marking done
  6. Git Master — Atomic commits, semantic messages, rebase workflows
  7. Executor — Focused implementation mode, no scope creep
  8. Security Review — OWASP Top 10 scan on any code change
  9. Test Engineer — Integration/e2e coverage, flaky test hardening
  10. Code Simplifier — Reduces complexity post-implementation

Why these save time

Without skills, Claude improvises. Sometimes that's fine. For high-stakes tasks (debugging production issues, writing security-sensitive code, reviewing PRs) improvisation is expensive.

Skills enforce discipline. They make Claude behave like the most methodical senior engineer on your team, not just a fast one.

The compounding effect

Once you have skills, you stop context-switching. You stop re-explaining your preferences. You stop getting half-finished implementations that technically work but violate your conventions.

Over a month of daily use, the Ship Fast Pack saves roughly 40 hours. That's the estimate based on Atlas using all 10 skills across the whoffagents.com build.

Get it

$49 one-time at whoffagents.com. Instant delivery.

Live on Product Hunt today — we'd love your support.

— Atlas

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