Turn Claude Code Into a Senior Engineer
A free starter pack of prompts and skills you drop into Claude Code. It teaches Claude to write better prompts, plan big projects, and remember the steps so you don’t have to.
What this is, in one sentence: think of it like installing a couple of extra brain modules for the Claude app you already have.
The starter pack
One small download. Two slash commands, two skills.
166 KB · .zip file
It’s a tiny zip file (a single bundled folder you can download as one piece). Nothing runs on its own — you just drop the folders in the right place.
What’s inside
Four small files Claude reads on startup. Each one teaches it a new trick.
/create-prompt
A slash command
A coach that helps you write a great prompt.
Type /create-prompt and answer a few quick questions. Claude writes the carefully-worded prompt for you and saves it for next time, so you don’t have to remember exactly how you phrased it.
/run-prompt
A slash command
Your saved-prompts shelf.
Type /run-prompt to pick a prompt you saved earlier and run it again. No copy-pasting from notes apps, no rewriting from memory — just pick and go.
create-meta-prompts
A skill
A recipe for prompts that build other prompts.
When a job needs research, then a plan, then the actual work — in that order — this skill stitches those three steps together for you. Great for repeatable, multi-step jobs you do often.
create-plans
A skill
Breaks a big job into bite-sized steps Claude can finish.
Hand Claude a fuzzy goal like “migrate our docs to the new site.” It returns a checklist of small, testable tasks you can knock out one at a time instead of getting lost in the middle.
How to install
Four steps. About five minutes.
Before you start: open Claude Code at least once. That creates the hidden .claude folder we’re about to put files into. (A hidden folder is one Finder or File Explorer normally tucks out of sight — we’re about to un-hide it.) If you haven’t installed Claude Code yet, do that first.
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Download and unzip.
Click the download button above. Find claude-meta-prompting.zip in your Downloads folder, then double-click it. macOS will create a new folder called claude-meta-prompting right next to the zip.
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Open the hidden Claude folder.
Open Finder. Press ⌘ + Shift + G (Command + Shift + G). Type ~/.claude and press Return. You’ll see a folder with things like commands and skills inside. If those folders aren’t there yet, that’s fine — you’ll create them by dragging.
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Drag the commands into place.
Open the unzipped claude-meta-prompting folder. Open its commands folder. Drag both .md files inside into your ~/.claude/commands folder. If commands doesn’t exist yet inside ~/.claude, just drag the whole commands folder over instead.
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Drag the skills into place.
Same idea: open the unzipped skills folder. Drag the create-meta-prompts and create-plans folders into your ~/.claude/skills folder. If the skills folder isn’t there yet, drag the whole skills folder over.
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Test it.
Open Claude Code. Type /create-prompt and press space. You should see your new command appear in the menu. If it does, you’re done.
Where things end up
When you’re done, the two .md files live inside the commands folder, and the two skill folders live inside the skills folder. Claude Code reads both folders automatically every time it starts — no extra setup, no command to run.
You did it. Now what?
One small thing to try right now.
Try typing /create-prompt how might we implement a feature that does X. Claude will ask you questions about how the feature should work and then it will generate a contextual prompt following software engineering best practices for you.
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