Platform Engineering is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the engineering-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/platform-engineering/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when building developer platforms, configuring Backstage, designing self-service workflows, or when user mentions 'platform engineering', 'backstage', 'golden path', 'IDP', 'developer portal', 'service catalog', 'DevEx', 'platform team', 'self-service'.
The Platform Engineering 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.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/platform-engineering curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/platform-engineering/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/platform-engineering/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/platform-engineering/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/platform-engineering/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\platform-engineering\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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