Skip to main content

Pragmatic Programmer

Skill Verified Active

Apply meta-principles of software craftsmanship: DRY, orthogonality, tracer bullets, and design by contract. Use when the user mentions "best practices", "pragmatic approach", "broken windows", "tracer bullet", "software craftsmanship", "technical debt prevention", "prototype vs tracer bullet", or "code ownership". Also trigger when evaluating build-vs-buy decisions, designing estimation approaches, or choosing between reversible and irreversible architectural decisions. Covers estimation, domain languages, and reversibility. For code-level quality, see clean-code. For refactoring techniques, see refactoring-patterns.

Purpose

Apply foundational software craftsmanship principles to design better systems, improve code quality, and manage technical debt effectively.

Features

  • Apply DRY knowledge principle
  • Design orthogonal systems
  • Utilize tracer bullets and prototypes
  • Implement design by contract
  • Combat software entropy with broken window theory

Use Cases

  • When evaluating software designs and architecture
  • When reviewing code for quality and maintainability
  • When advising on engineering culture and practices
  • When deciding between building a tracer bullet or a prototype

Non-Goals

  • Providing specific language syntax or framework implementation details
  • Replacing the need to read 'The Pragmatic Programmer' book
  • Offering a "one-size-fits-all" solution to software development challenges

Installation

First, add the marketplace

/plugin marketplace add wondelai/skills
/plugin install skills@wondelai-skills

Quality Score

Verified
98 /100
Analyzed about 23 hours ago

Trust Signals

Last commit17 days ago
Stars953
LicenseMIT
Status
View Source

Similar Extensions

V3 Ddd Architecture

100

Domain-Driven Design architecture for claude-flow v3. Implements modular, bounded context architecture with clean separation of concerns and microkernel pattern.

Skill
ruvnet

Pathfinder

100

Map a codebase into feature-grouped flowcharts, identify duplicated concerns across features, and propose a unified architecture. Use when asked to "find the ideal path," unify duplicated systems, or audit architecture before a refactor. Emits a proposed unified flowchart plus per-system /make-plan prompts.

Skill
thedotmack

Understand

100

Analyze a codebase to produce an interactive knowledge graph for understanding architecture, components, and relationships

Skill
Lum1104

Cloud Architect

100

Designs cloud architectures, creates migration plans, generates cost optimization recommendations, and produces disaster recovery strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Use when designing cloud architectures, planning migrations, or optimizing multi-cloud deployments. Invoke for Well-Architected Framework, cost optimization, disaster recovery, landing zones, security architecture, serverless design.

Skill
jeffallan

API Design Patterns

100

Comprehensive API design patterns covering REST, GraphQL, gRPC, versioning, authentication, and modern API best practices

Skill
bobmatnyc

Angular Developer

100

Generates Angular code and provides architectural guidance. Trigger when creating projects, components, or services, or for best practices on reactivity (signals, linkedSignal, resource), forms, dependency injection, routing, SSR, accessibility (ARIA), animations, styling (component styles, Tailwind CSS), testing, or CLI tooling.

Skill
angular

© 2025 SkillRepo · Find the right skill, skip the noise.