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Platform Friction Detector

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: engineering-misc  ·  Last updated:
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Use when scanning for silent user workarounds, platform friction signals, dependency removals, or users routing around your libraries. Trigger phrases: platform friction, user workarounds, who's dropping our libs, silent churn, friction scan, are users working around us.

From the source SKILL.md

Scan downstream repos, PRs, commits, and Slack for signals that users are quietly working around your platform libraries instead of reporting problems. These silent workarounds represent untracked friction — users who hit a wall and routed around it without filing a bug.

What this skill does

Platform Friction Detector is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the engineering-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/platform-friction-detector/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when scanning for silent user workarounds, platform friction signals, dependency removals, or users routing around your libraries. Trigger phrases: platform friction, user workarounds, who's dropping our libs, silent churn, friction scan, are users working around us.

Who uses this skill

The Platform Friction Detector 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 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/platform-friction-detector
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/platform-friction-detector/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/platform-friction-detector/SKILL.md

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

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/platform-friction-detector/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\platform-friction-detector\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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ClaudSkills. (2026). Platform Friction Detector [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/platform-friction-detector/
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@misc{platform-friction-detector-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Platform Friction Detector [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/platform-friction-detector/}
}

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