Ask Expert is a well-rated Claude Code skill (quality score 85/100) in the architecture sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/ask-expert/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when user asks to "create an expert consultation document", "prepare code for expert review", "gather architecture context", or needs comprehensive technical documentation for external analysis. Requires Node.
The Ask Expert 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.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ask-expert curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/ask-expert/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/ask-expert/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ask-expert/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/ask-expert/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\ask-expert\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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