Reference
What exactly does this field or command do?
Benchmark options and report
What run_bench.py needs, its flags, how each run is isolated, what it writes, and what each number in the report means.
Read →The skilldrop GitHub Action
Every input and output of the skilldrop GitHub Action, what it sends to Claude and what it never runs, which skills fit CI, and what a run costs.
Read →Install options
Every skilldrop CLI install command and flag, the Claude Code plugin marketplace's plugins and how they are built, the reviewer subagents, and where to go for hooks, catalogues and authoring.
Read →Install targets and dependencies
Where each install target puts skills and subagents, the by-hand steps for Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro and agents without a skills folder, what --local does, and each skill's dependency install.
Read →The loop contract
Every rule a new loop must meet — the closed loop.json fields, the three stage types, gate ids and verdicts, what LOOP.md carries, and how a loop is registered and checked.
Read →The loops, stage by stage
Every loop's stages, skills and gates, with a generated diagram per loop — what each takes, what it produces, and what a mistake costs.
Read →MCP servers and skills
Which MCP servers pair with which skilldrop skills and loops, the config for each supported tool, the security rules, and fixes for common problems.
Read →skilldrop and the OWASP Top 10s
Where skilldrop's controls meet the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 and the LLM Top 10 2025, what each control actually does, and the gaps it leaves.
Read →Policy file and audit log
Every field of the organisation policy, where the CLI looks for it, how it fails, and the format of the audit log and the inventory report
Read →Every skill, by category
All the skills grouped by what they produce, one line each, plus the anatomy every skill folder shares.
Read →The skill contract
What a new skill folder must contain — frontmatter, manifest, size, scripts, evals, catalogue entries — and what validate.py checks before it merges.
Read →Skills that ship scripts
Every skill that ships scripts and what each declares it needs — packages, environment variables, hosts, programs and files — and how to invoke a skill from Claude Code or any other IDE.
Read →Updates and the install ledger
What outdated, update, diff and doctor compare and decide — the ledger file, how edited files become .upstream, every update flag, and the edge cases.
Read →Versioning and what stays stable
What skilldrop promises from 1.0.0 — the CLI, skill folders and names, scripts' flags and exit codes, loops, packs, the GitHub Action and plugin names — what each kind of release can change, and how deprecation and retirement work.
Read →Per pack (19)
- AI engineering pack reference — Every skill in the AI engineering pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- API builder pack reference — Every skill in the API builder pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Job applications pack reference — Every skill in the Job applications pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Converters pack reference — Every skill in the Converters pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Core pack reference — Every skill in the Core pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Data and analytics pack reference — Every skill in the Data and analytics pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Design pack reference — Every skill in the Design pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Dev team pack reference — Every skill in the Dev team pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Experience design pack reference — Every skill in the Experience design pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Frontend pack reference — Every skill in the Frontend pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Governance, risk and compliance pack reference — Every skill in the Governance, risk and compliance pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Infrastructure as code pack reference — Every skill in the Infrastructure as code pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Product manager pack reference — Every skill in the Product manager pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Research pack reference — Every skill in the Research pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Skill engineering pack reference — Every skill in the Skill engineering pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Solution architect pack reference — Every skill in the Solution architect pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- SRE / on-call pack reference — Every skill in the SRE / on-call pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Stakeholder comms pack reference — Every skill in the Stakeholder comms pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.
- Trackers pack reference — Every skill in the Trackers pack — what it makes, when to use it, what it needs, its quality bar, and what it hands off to.