prompt-architect

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: performance

Create and enhance prompts, system instructions, and principle files. Capabilities: transform verbose prompts, add patterns/heuristics, optimize token usage, structure CLAUDE.md principles, improve agent/persona definitions, apply prompt engineering techniques (CoT, few-shot, ReAct). Actions: create, enhance, optimize, refactor, compress prompts. Keywords: prompt engineering, system prompt, CLAUDE.md, principle files, instruction optimization, agent prompt, persona prompt, token efficiency, prompt structure, workflow prompts, rules, constraints, few-shot, chain-of-thought, soul, tensions, dialectic. Use when: creating new prompts, enhancing principle files, improving system instructions, optimizing CLAUDE.md, restructuring verbose prompts, adding patterns to workflows, defining agent behaviors.

What this skill does

prompt-architect is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the performance sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/0-prompt-architect/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when: creating new prompts, enhancing principle files, improving system instructions, optimizing CLAUDE.md, restructuring verbose prompts, adding patterns to workflows, defining agent behaviors.

Who uses this skill

The prompt-architect skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/0-prompt-architect
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/0-prompt-architect/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/0-prompt-architect/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/0-prompt-architect/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/0-prompt-architect/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\0-prompt-architect\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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