Practical developer-experience review, design, debugging, and risk-scan for any surface a developer has to install, call, debug, extend, test, or maintain. Provenance and grounding sources live in skill.json; this file is runtime routing only.
Dx Heuristics is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the performance sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/dx-heuristics/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when evaluating, designing, or debugging developer experience for APIs, SDKs, CLIs, docs, examples, setup, errors, local dev, build/test workflows, migrations, package contracts, contributor workflows, auth, IDE integration, plugins, performance, or telemetry. Also trigger for DX reviews, developer onboarding friction, confusing integration steps, dev-facing interface design, or PR feedback about developer usability.
The Dx Heuristics 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).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/dx-heuristics curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/dx-heuristics/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/dx-heuristics/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/dx-heuristics/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/dx-heuristics/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\dx-heuristics\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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