Team Principles
Apply and review adherence to our Team engineering principles during code review, refactoring, design, and AI-assisted development. Use this skill when reviewing code for unnecessary complexity, premature abstraction, or cleverness over clarity; when reviewing AI-generated code for accountability and correctness; when checking defensive coding practices and early error detection; or when assessing simplicity in design and implementation decisions. Covers: avoiding hasty abstractions, clarity over cleverness, simplicity, prevention and early detection, and responsible AI usage.
From the source SKILL.md
Our engineering principles for how teams write code, make decisions, use AI, and deliver value — with clarity, simplicity, accountability, and prevention built in.
What this skill does
Team Principles is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the code-quality sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/team-principles/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
Who uses this skill
The Team Principles 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 93,000+ 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/team-principles
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/team-principles/SKILL.md \
-o ~/.claude/skills/team-principles/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/team-principles/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/team-principles/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\team-principles\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
Telegram
📱 Install from your phone or desktop Telegram
Open @claudskills_bot on Telegram, tap Open Desktop App, and the desktop app installs this skill for you. Or share the bot link with a colleague — they get the same one-tap install. Learn more →
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.
Pro
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Frequently asked questions
How do I install the Team Principles Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy
SKILL.md from the source repository to
~/.claude/skills/team-principles/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at
claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Team Principles skill do?
Apply and review adherence to our Team engineering principles during code review, refactoring, design, and AI-assisted development. Use this skill when reviewing code for unnecessary complexity, premature abstraction, or cleverness over clarity; when reviewing AI-generated code for accountability and correctness; when checking defensive coding practices and early error detection; or when assessing simplicity in design and implementation decisions. Covers: avoiding hasty abstractions, clarity over cleverness, simplicity, prevention and early detection, and responsible AI usage.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Team Principles skill?
Use Team Principles when your Claude Code task falls under the Engineering category — specifically in the code quality area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Team Principles" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at
/category/engineering/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Team Principles skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a
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. Team Principles 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/.
Attribution & license
Cite this skill
If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
APA
griffiths-waite. (2026). Team Principles [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/team-principles/
BibTeX
@misc{team-principles-2026,
author = {griffiths-waite},
title = {Team Principles [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/team-principles/}
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