# Show HN: Claude Code skills that encode a staff engineer's setup, not prompts > Source: > Published: 2026-06-21 17:42:06+00:00 A staff engineer's battle-tested workflow — **OrbStack, Doppler, DigitalOcean, real CI** — codified as Claude Code skills your AI actually runs. Not prompts. Not vibes. Production-grade defaults. Join the list → get **squidops** free + first dibs at launch. No spam, unsubscribe anytime. Asking Claude to "set up CI" gives you a different answer every time. Staff Engineer gives you the *same* production-grade stack, wired the correct way, on demand. Re-explain your stack every session. Hope it remembers OrbStack, Doppler, the CI shape. Different output each run. One command runs a real, battle-tested script. Scaffold apps, wire CI/CD, set up observability, audit your toolchain — deterministic, every time. Each skill is a real script the AI runs — not a paragraph it improvises. Same stack every time, the way a senior engineer would actually wire it. Scaffold a full app: Next.js + NestJS/Prisma + Postgres, OrbStack magic domains (no port clashes), Doppler secrets, husky pre-commit, parallel PR CI — in one command. Devops toolchain doctor. Checks brew, git, gh, doctl, Doppler, New Relic, wrangler are installed *and* authenticated. Offers installs, explains every login. GitHub Actions that test, build images, and auto-deploy to DigitalOcean on push to main. Zero-to-pipeline. Observability in minutes: New Relic health checks, dashboards, and alert channels wired to email + Slack. Real-time out of the box: live updates, presence, and broadcast channels over the Pusher protocol — hosted, or self-hosted with Soketi in your own infra. Durable workflows & background jobs with Inngest — scheduled tasks, retries, and multi-step flows, local in Docker for dev and cloud in prod. One zip. No accounts, no telemetry, no runtime. Yours forever. `./install.sh` symlinks every skill into `~/.claude/skills` . Idempotent — re-run anytime. Type `/squidapp` in any session, or let Claude trigger skills by description. It now ships like you do. **Built by a staff engineer with decades in Silicon Valley** shipping complete, high-performing systems. Every skill encodes a real, opinionated workflow — not a generic tutorial. You're buying judgment, packaged. A downloadable zip of Claude Code skills plus an installer. Each skill bundles the scripts and templates it runs. It's a one-time purchase — a digital copy you own, not a subscription. Yes — that's the point of owning it. Skills are continuously refined as tooling evolves, and **new skills are added to the pack over time**. Buyers get every update and every new skill, no extra charge. Re-run ./install.sh and you're current. Claude Code, and (for the infra skills) the usual macOS dev tooling — brew, Docker via OrbStack, Doppler. The free /squidops skill checks all of it for you and tells you what's missing. Yes. Join the early-access list and /squidops is yours free — a genuinely useful toolchain doctor. The full pack (scaffolding, CI, observability) is the paid product. Prompts improvise. These skills run deterministic scripts — the same battle-tested stack, wired the same correct way, every time. Less "please set up CI" and re-explaining; more /squidci and done. Soon. Two skills are ready today; more land before launch. Join the list to get notified, vote on what ships next, and lock in early-access pricing. Buy once, own it forever — every refinement and new skill included. Get the free skill now, the full pack first.