ClaudSkills / Engineering / code-quality

Issue Planning

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: code-quality

Guide structured analysis of problems and planning of implementation. Use when starting work on a new feature, encountering a bug, refactoring existing functionality, or any task that benefits from thinking before coding. Helps create well-defined GitHub issues with clear scope, acceptance criteria, and implementation steps.

What this skill does

Issue Planning is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the code-quality sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/issue-planning/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when starting work on a new feature, encountering a bug, refactoring existing functionality, or any task that benefits from thinking before coding. Helps create well-defined GitHub issues with clear scope, acceptance criteria, and implementation steps.

Who uses this skill

The Issue Planning 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.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/issue-planning
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/issue-planning/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/issue-planning/SKILL.md

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

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/issue-planning/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\issue-planning\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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