Identify Common Mistakes

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: General · Sub-category: general-misc

Identify the most common, high-impact mistakes in any new project (business, technical, analytical, etc.) and provide clear, actionable steps to prevent them before they become costly or difficult to recover from. Use when users ask about common mistakes or what to avoid.

What this skill does

Identify Common Mistakes is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/identify-common-mistakes/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when users ask about common mistakes or what to avoid.

Who uses this skill

The Identify Common Mistakes skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. 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/identify-common-mistakes
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/identify-common-mistakes/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/identify-common-mistakes/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/identify-common-mistakes/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/identify-common-mistakes/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\identify-common-mistakes\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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