Include What You Use

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

Include What You Use (IWYU) skill for optimizing C/C++ header includes. Use when reducing compilation cascades, interpreting IWYU reports, applying mapping files, deciding between forward declarations and full includes, or integrating IWYU with CMake. Activates on queries about IWYU, include-what-you-use, header bloat, reducing includes, forward declarations, compilation cascade, or slow C++ compilation from headers.

What this skill does

Include What You Use 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/include-what-you-use/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when reducing compilation cascades, interpreting IWYU reports, applying mapping files, deciding between forward declarations and full includes, or integrating IWYU with CMake. Activates on queries about IWYU, include-what-you-use, header bloat, reducing includes, forward declarations, compilation cascade, or slow C++ compilation from headers.

Who uses this skill

The Include What You Use 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/include-what-you-use
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/include-what-you-use/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/include-what-you-use/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/include-what-you-use/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/include-what-you-use/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\include-what-you-use\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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