{"slug": "skull-skills", "title": "Skull Skills", "summary": "A developer has released Skull Skills, a free, open-source tool that turns Claude Code into a multi-agent team. By saying \"skull,\" a leader interviews the user, maps the project, and assembles specialists like Sentinel for cartography, planning, review, and guardrails. The system runs entirely locally as markdown in the .claude/ directory, requires no account or API key, and is safe by default with no autonomous runners or background daemons.", "body_md": "A free, open-source Claude Code team. Say \"skull\" and a leader interviews you, maps your project, and assembles a tailored team — Sentinel the project cartographer plus planning, review, understanding and guardrail specialists — then runs it on your work. It also keeps itself (and you) current with the newest Claude Code features.\n\nNo account. No API key. No vault. It's just markdown you drop into .claude/ — everything is local, plain text, and open.\n\n**A free, open-source Claude Code team.** Say **\"skull\"** and a *leader* interviews you, maps your\nproject, and assembles a tailored team — **Sentinel** the project cartographer plus planning, review\nunderstanding and guardrail specialists — then runs it on your work. It also keeps itself (and you) current\nwith the newest Claude Code features.\n\nNo account. No API key. No vault. It's just markdown you drop into `.claude/`\n\n— everything is local, plain text, and open.\n\n**Safe by default.** Adding SKULL runs **nothing** — it's inert markdown. There are **no** autonomous\nrunners and no background daemons; every capability works interactively under Claude\nCode's normal permission prompts, nothing auto-starts, and no data leaves your machine. Its guardrails are\nguidance by default; a few can be **armed** as opt-in `PreToolUse`\n\nhooks that hard-block the riskiest moves\n(weakening a test, irreversible shell on a prod box) — off until you switch them on…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skull-skills", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/aturzone/skull-skills-1lnb", "published_at": "2026-07-26 11:53:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-26 12:30:14.787621+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Claude Code", "Skull Skills", "Sentinel"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skull-skills", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skull-skills.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skull-skills.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skull-skills.jsonld"}}