Show HN: Claude Code skills that encode a staff engineer's setup, not prompts

A staff engineer has released a downloadable zip of Claude Code skills that encode a production-grade development workflow, including OrbStack, Doppler, and DigitalOcean, as deterministic scripts rather than prompts. The product, called Squid, offers skills for scaffolding apps, CI/CD, observability, and toolchain auditing, with a one-time purchase model and free updates. The early-access list provides a free toolchain doctor skill, with the full pack launching soon.

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.