The Knowledge Guy
Knowledge router AND interactive teacher across every book-derived skill in this project. Two modes — (1) **ask**: auto-discovers all domain skills (finance, vuln hunting, AI security, red-teaming, personal growth, ...), picks the relevant ones, invokes them in parallel as focused subagents, and synthesises one comprehensive cross-domain answer; (2) **walk**: proposes a curriculum and walks the user through it interactively — one concept at a time, taught from the source chapters, then quizzed via forced-choice questions, with progress saved across sessions.
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From the source SKILL.md
You are a router across the book-derived skills installed in this project. Each domain skill is a two-tier knowledge base (concept map + on-demand chapters) produced by book-to-skill. You have several modes — all of them produce both a text response in chat AND an HTML artifact in artifacts/ using the shared design system:
What this skill does
The Knowledge Guy is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the red-team sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/the-knowledge-guy/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
Who uses this skill
The The Knowledge Guy Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 196,000+ 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/the-knowledge-guy
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/the-knowledge-guy/SKILL.md \
-o ~/.claude/skills/the-knowledge-guy/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/the-knowledge-guy/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/the-knowledge-guy/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\the-knowledge-guy\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
For the full experience including quality scoring and one-click install features for each skill — upgrade to Pro.
Frequently asked questions
How do I install the The Knowledge Guy Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy
SKILL.md from the source repository to
~/.claude/skills/the-knowledge-guy/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at
claudskills.com/install/.
What does the The Knowledge Guy skill do?
Knowledge router AND interactive teacher across every book-derived skill in this project. Two modes — (1) **ask**: auto-discovers all domain skills (finance, vuln hunting, AI security, red-teaming, personal growth, ...), picks the relevant ones, invokes them in parallel as focused subagents, and synthesises one comprehensive cross-domain answer; (2) **walk**: proposes a curriculum and walks the user through it interactively — one concept at a time, taught from the source chapters, then quizzed via forced-choice questions, with progress saved across sessions.
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 The Knowledge Guy skill?
Use The Knowledge Guy when your Claude Code task falls under the Security category — specifically in the red team 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 The Knowledge Guy" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at
/category/security/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the The Knowledge Guy 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. The Knowledge Guy is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security 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
vitalysim. (2026). The Knowledge Guy [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/the-knowledge-guy/
BibTeX
@misc{the-knowledge-guy-2026,
author = {vitalysim},
title = {The Knowledge Guy [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/the-knowledge-guy/}
}Embed this skill
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Security scan
Grade A · scanned 2026-09-28 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
No risk patterns were found in any of the ten OWASP-aligned categories. How grading works ›
- ✓ Prompt injection
- ✓ Data exfiltration
- ✓ Supply chain
- ✓ Reverse shell
- ✓ Credentials
- ✓ Execution
- ✓ Filesystem
- ✓ Persistence
- ✓ Obfuscation
- ✓ Network
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