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.
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.
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 187,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
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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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/platform-friction-detector/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Platform Friction Detector is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@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/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-18 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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