Best AI Prompts & Skills for Software Engineers
Ship better code faster with prompts and agent skills for code review, debugging, refactoring, testing, and documentation.
Prompts
Explain at Five Levels
Understand any concept via five explanations, from a child's level to expert.
Senior Code Reviewer
Get a staff-engineer-level review of any diff or file, ranked by severity.
Root-Cause Debugger
Stop guessing at fixes — isolate the actual cause of a bug step by step.
Plain-English → SQL Query Builder
Describe what you want in English, get correct SQL for your actual schema.
Incremental Refactoring Planner
Plan a refactor as safe, shippable steps — each one leaving the code working.
README Generator
Generate a README that answers what, why, and how-to-run in 60 seconds.
Changelog & Release Notes Writer
Turn merged PRs into release notes users actually read.
Skills
Test-First Bugfix
Force your agent to reproduce every bug with a failing test before fixing it.
Conventional Commit Writer
A SKILL.md that makes your agent write clean conventional commits, every time.
Pre-Commit Security Check
A last-line security sweep your agent runs before every commit.
Codebase Onboarding Guide
Explains any unfamiliar codebase top-down: entry points, data flow, and the weird parts.
PR Description Writer
Reviewable pull request descriptions generated from the actual diff.
SEO Page Builder
Every page your agent ships comes out technically SEO-complete.
Safe Dependency Upgrader
Upgrade dependencies with changelogs read, breakages found, and rollbacks ready.
REST API Design Reviewer
Consistent, predictable REST endpoints — enforced at design time.
Docs That Stay True
Documentation generated from code reality, not from vibes.
CLAUDE.md Templates
CLAUDE.md for Next.js Apps
A battle-tested CLAUDE.md template for Next.js App Router projects.
CLAUDE.md for Python APIs
FastAPI/Django-ready CLAUDE.md with typing, testing, and migration guardrails.
CLAUDE.md for MVPs & Prototypes
Speed-first agent rules for pre-product-market-fit code.
CLAUDE.md for Monorepos
Keep agents oriented across packages with scoped commands and ownership rules.
CLAUDE.md for Data Science Repos
Reproducibility rules for notebooks, pipelines, and experiments.
CLAUDE.md for Open Source Maintainers
Contributor-safe agent rules: compatibility, review standards, and community tone.