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Bosskuai Engineering Principles

Q: How do I install the Bosskuai Engineering Principles Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/bosskuai-engineering-principles/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Category: Engineering · Sub-category: ml-ai-eng · Last updated: 2026-05-21

type:audit type:review

Use this when starting any non-trivial coding work to apply the four engineering principles — Think Before Coding, Simplicity First, Surgical Changes, Goal-Driven Execution. Pairs with bosskuai-coding-best-practices (which covers code-quality detail) and bosskuai-rigorous-code-review (which audits the result).

From the source SKILL.md

Four principles applied at the start of any non-trivial coding task. They reduce the most common LLM coding failures: wrong assumptions taken silently, overcomplicated code, drive-by edits, and ambiguous goals that need re-prompting.

What this skill does

Bosskuai Engineering Principles is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the ml-ai-eng sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/bosskuai-engineering-principles/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Bosskuai Engineering Principles Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/bosskuai-engineering-principles
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/bosskuai-engineering-principles/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/bosskuai-engineering-principles/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/bosskuai-engineering-principles/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

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

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Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills
Author: forrestchang

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Bosskuai Engineering Principles

From the source SKILL.md

What this skill does

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How to install

Manual install (2 steps)

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