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by martinholovsky

SOTA-skills

Engineering best practices that AI coding agents actually apply — 40+ skills, from secure coding and cloud to compliance and UX writing. BUILD + AUDIT modes. Measured: best-practice coverage 59% → 98% vs. the same model unguided.

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  • Claude

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  • 30 skills (30 skills found in its SKILL.md files)
  • 2 forks (2 forks)
  • Today last update (Last updated today)

Install

Skills CLI

npx skills add martinholovsky/SOTA-skills

Asks which skills and agents to install. Just one: npx skills add martinholovsky/SOTA-skills --skill sota-api-design — add -g for every project.

Claude Code

git clone https://github.com/martinholovsky/SOTA-skillscp -r "SOTA-skills/skills/sota-api-design" ~/.claude/skills/

Copies the sota-api-design skill into ~/.claude/skills/ for every project (use .claude/skills/ for one project). Repeat for the other skills listed below.

Plugin

/plugin marketplace add martinholovsky/SOTA-skills

Run inside Claude Code if the repository ships a plugin marketplace, then pick plugins from /plugin.

Skills can run code on your machine — read the SKILL.md first.

What it does

In the author's own words, from each skill's SKILL.md — showing the first 30 of 42 files.

  • sota-api-design

    State-of-the-art API design and audit guidance (2026) covering REST/HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets/SSE/realtime, webhooks, versioning/evolution, and API security/operations. Use when designing or building any API surface (endpoints, schemas, protos, realtime channels, webhook senders/receivers) AND when auditing/reviewing existing APIs for correctness, evolvability, security, and operational rob…

    skills/sota-api-design/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-architecture

    State-of-the-art software and system architecture rules (2026) for both building and auditing. Use when designing, building, refactoring, or extending system architecture — boundaries, DDD, hexagonal/clean architecture, event-driven design, CQRS, sagas, messaging, caching, sharding, multi-tenancy, resilience, scalability, 12-factor/cloud-native — AND when auditing existing architecture for qualit…

    skills/sota-architecture/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-async-concurrency

    State-of-the-art rules for writing and auditing asynchronous and concurrent code across runtimes (Python asyncio, JS/Node, Go, Rust, JVM). Use when building anything with async/await, threads, processes, event loops, task groups, channels, or queues — and when auditing existing code for race conditions, deadlocks, leaked tasks, blocked event loops, missing cancellation, or backpressure failures.…

    skills/sota-async-concurrency/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-c-cpp

    State-of-the-art C and C++ engineering rules that Claude applies when writing or auditing C/C++. Covers modern idioms (RAII, value semantics, smart pointers, C++23), memory safety (lifetimes, bounds, sanitizers, hardening flags), undefined behavior, security (SEI CERT C/C++, MISRA, integer/buffer/format-string, injection), concurrency (C/C++ memory model, atomics, data races), build/tooling/CI (C…

    skills/sota-c-cpp/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-cli-ux

    State-of-the-art CLI and developer-tool UX guidance (2026) covering command and flag design, output and interaction (stdout/stderr, --json, TTY detection, exit codes, prompts), runtime behavior and lifecycle (signals, dry-run, idempotency, XDG paths, completions, telemetry), and distribution (packaging, checksums, docs). Use when designing or building any command line tool, subcommand, TUI, or de…

    skills/sota-cli-ux/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-cloud-infrastructure

    State-of-the-art cloud infrastructure architecture (2026). Applies when designing, building, or auditing cloud environments on AWS, GCP, or Azure — account/project structure and landing zones, IAM and workload identity, VPC/network design, DNS/TLS/CDN, compute selection (serverless vs containers vs Kubernetes vs VMs), object storage and backup architecture, cost engineering (FinOps), and disaster…

    skills/sota-cloud-infrastructure/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-code-security

    Secure coding and security auditing rules. Use whenever BUILDING or modifying code that crosses a trust boundary — endpoints, handlers, auth/login/signup, sessions, JWT/OAuth, file uploads, payments, multi-tenant features, crypto/secrets handling, parsers, CLI/exec wrappers, LLM agents or tool-calling — AND whenever AUDITING code for security (security review, vulnerability hunt, hardening, OWASP…

    skills/sota-code-security/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-confidential-computing

    State-of-the-art confidential computing and cryptographic PETs (2026) for BUILDING and AUDITING systems that protect workloads and data in use from the infrastructure they run on — the inverse of sandboxing. Covers TEE selection (AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX, ARM CCA realms, SGX enclaves, AWS Nitro Enclaves, NVIDIA confidential GPUs), memory encryption vs attested isolation (TME/TME-MK/MKTME), remote a…

    skills/sota-confidential-computing/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-copywriting

    State-of-the-art marketing copywriting and content guidance (2026) covering positioning and value propositions, headlines and landing-page copy, CTAs and social proof, SEO content (search intent, E-E-A-T, Google spam policies), and the accuracy/legal layer — claim substantiation, FTC Endorsement Guides (2023) and the Consumer Reviews Rule (2024), testimonial consent, dark-pattern avoidance, and e…

    skills/sota-copywriting/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-data-engineering

    State-of-the-art data engineering rules (2026) for building and auditing data pipelines and analytics infrastructure. Covers architecture and modeling (ELT, lakehouse vs warehouse, dimensional models, medallion layering), pipeline and orchestration discipline (idempotency, incremental loads, backfills, dbt-style transformations), streaming and CDC (Kafka, exactly-once reality, schema evolution, D…

    skills/sota-data-engineering/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-databases

    State-of-the-art database engineering rules (2026) for designing, building, and auditing data layers. Covers engine selection, schema modeling, migrations, query and index craft, transactions and concurrency, reliability and scale, security, and vector/AI workloads. Use when designing a new data layer, writing or reviewing schemas/migrations/queries, debugging slow or contended database workloads…

    skills/sota-databases/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-detection-engineering

    State-of-the-art detection engineering, SOC, threat hunting, and incident response (2026). Use when BUILDING detective controls or SOC capability — Sigma/YARA/Falco/Tetragon/Suricata rules, detection-as-code, MITRE ATT&CK coverage, SIEM detections, alert triage and SOAR, threat hunts, threat-intel, deception, IR playbooks, or adversary emulation — AND when AUDITING detection & IR posture (can we…

    skills/sota-detection-engineering/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-devsecops

    State-of-the-art DevSecOps and software supply chain security (2026). Applies when building or auditing CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions workflows, supply chain controls, SBOM generation, SAST/secret-scanning gates, dependency management, container builds, container/artifact registries, IaC (Terraform), GitOps, deployment strategy, and a pre-commit hook that passes locally but fails in CI. Trigger…

    skills/sota-devsecops/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-docs-workflow

    State-of-the-art documentation and engineering-collaboration guidance (2026) covering documentation architecture (Diátaxis, docs-as-code, READMEs, runbooks, onboarding, AI-readable docs), API/reference docs and changelogs, and the team workflow around code: pull requests, code review conduct, commit discipline, branching, and releases. Use when writing or structuring any documentation AND when au…

    skills/sota-docs-workflow/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-dotnet

    State-of-the-art C# / .NET engineering rules (.NET LTS releases, modern C#) that Claude applies when writing or auditing .NET code. Covers modern idioms (records, nullable reference types, pattern matching, spans, file-scoped namespaces), API/null/immutability/`IDisposable` design, async/await & concurrency (ConfigureAwait, channels, cancellation, TPL), security (OWASP .NET, deserialization — Bin…

    skills/sota-dotnet/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-frontend-design

    State-of-the-art web design, UI/UX, and motion engineering standards (2026). Use when building OR auditing/reviewing user interfaces: components, pages, design systems, stylesheets, themes, forms, navigation, animations, or accessibility. Covers typography, color (OKLCH, dark mode), spacing/layout (grid, container queries, subgrid), design tokens and component APIs, UX patterns (forms, loading/em…

    skills/sota-frontend-design/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-golang

    State-of-the-art Go engineering rules (supported Go releases) that Claude applies when writing new Go code or auditing existing Go code. Covers error handling, interface/package design, goroutine and channel correctness, net/http hardening, security (SQL, exec, path traversal, CSPRNG, TLS, supply chain), performance (pprof, allocations, GC, PGO), and tooling/CI. Trigger keywords - Go, golang, gor…

    skills/sota-golang/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-identity-access

    State-of-the-art identity and access management engineering (2026) for BUILDING/configuring identity infrastructure AND AUDITING it — federation, IdPs, authorization models, the joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle, privileged/break-glass access, workload identity, MFA/passkeys, and assurance levels; audits cover orphaned accounts, over-privileged roles, weak MFA, long-lived tokens, and SAML misconfig.…

    skills/sota-identity-access/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-javascript-typescript

    State-of-the-art JavaScript and TypeScript engineering (2026) for both writing and auditing code. Covers strict TypeScript configuration and type design, language idioms and pitfalls, async patterns, Node.js backends, JS/TS-specific security (XSS, prototype pollution, supply chain, injection), frontend/React and Node performance, and testing/tooling. Use whenever building, reviewing, refactoring,…

    skills/sota-javascript-typescript/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-jvm

    State-of-the-art JVM engineering rules for Java and Kotlin that Claude applies when writing or auditing JVM code. Java LTS releases (virtual threads final since 21; structured concurrency still preview), modern Kotlin. Covers modern idioms (records, sealed types, pattern matching, Kotlin null-safety/coroutines), API/null/immutability design, concurrency (virtual threads, JMM, java.util.concurrent…

    skills/sota-jvm/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-kubernetes

    State-of-the-art Kubernetes platform security and operations (2026) for cloud-managed (EKS/GKE/AKS) and self-hosted clusters (kubeadm, k3s/k0s, Talos). Use when building, operating, hardening, or auditing the cluster PLATFORM layer: control plane and etcd, API server/kubelet, RBAC, admission control and policy-as-code, GitOps controllers, operators/CRDs/admission webhooks, Helm/Kustomize supply c…

    skills/sota-kubernetes/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-llm-engineering

    State-of-the-art LLM application engineering rules for BUILDING and AUDITING LLM-powered features. Claude should use this skill whenever it is building, modifying, or reviewing anything that calls a language model — chat features, RAG pipelines, agents and tool use, structured extraction, classification, summarization, embeddings/vector search, evals and regression gates, prompt or context engine…

    skills/sota-llm-engineering/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-ml-engineering

    State-of-the-art ML engineering / MLOps rules (2026) for BUILDING and AUDITING production machine-learning systems — the training→serving→monitoring lifecycle of classical/predictive ML. Distinct from LLM apps (prompts/RAG/agents → sota-llm-engineering). Covers ML system architecture (feature stores, model registry, reproducibility), data & features (leakage, train/serve skew, versioning), traini…

    skills/sota-ml-engineering/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-mobile

    State-of-the-art mobile engineering for building and auditing iOS and Android applications. Use when the task involves mobile apps in any form — native (Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose), cross-platform (React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform), Swift as a language — Swift 6 strict concurrency, actors, Sendable, ARC, SwiftPM, Swift Testing — in any target including server-side Swift (e…

    skills/sota-mobile/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-network-security

    State-of-the-art network security as a discipline (2026) for BOTH designing/building secure networks AND auditing segmentation and exposure. Use for zero-trust architecture, network segmentation and blast-radius control, Kubernetes NetworkPolicy/CiliumNetworkPolicy depth, service mesh and mTLS, edge/ingress/egress security (WAF, egress allowlisting, metadata-endpoint blocking), DNS/TLS/PKI transp…

    skills/sota-network-security/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-observability

    State-of-the-art observability and reliability engineering (2026). Use when instrumenting code (structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, SLOs, alerting, health endpoints) or auditing an existing codebase's observability posture (can on-call answer "why is this request slow?" and "what broke at 3am?"). Not for security detections, SIEM, or threat hunting — use sota-dete…

    skills/sota-observability/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-performance

    State-of-the-art performance engineering for building fast systems and auditing existing code for bottlenecks. Use when the task involves performance, optimization, latency, profiling, slow code, memory usage, caching, or throughput — designing latency budgets, fixing N+1 and accidental-quadratic patterns, tuning allocation/GC pressure, network and I/O efficiency, cache architecture, Core Web Vit…

    skills/sota-performance/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-php

    State-of-the-art PHP engineering (supported PHP branches) for both writing new PHP and auditing existing PHP code. Covers strict_types and modern idioms (enums, readonly, match, fibers, property hooks), OWASP-grade security (SQL injection, XSS, file uploads, LFI/RFI, unserialize/Phar object injection, sessions, password hashing, sodium, SSRF), framework-neutral web hardening, Composer supply chai…

    skills/sota-php/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-privacy-compliance

    State-of-the-art privacy and compliance engineering guidance for building privacy-respecting systems and auditing existing code for privacy/compliance gaps. Use when work involves privacy, GDPR, PII, personal data, consent, data retention, deletion, DSAR (data subject access requests), SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, compliance evidence, data residency/sovereignty, data classification, anonymiz…

    skills/sota-privacy-compliance/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
  • sota-python

    State-of-the-art Python engineering for both writing new Python and auditing existing Python code. Covers uv-based tooling and project setup, strict typing, idioms and pitfalls, asyncio structured concurrency, security (injection, deserialization, supply chain), performance, and FastAPI/Django/pytest practice. Use whenever the task involves Python source, pyproject.toml, requirements files, or Py…

    skills/sota-python/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Review before you install

A skill is a set of instructions and scripts your agent will follow, and it can run code on your machine. Read the SKILL.md and any scripts first — this listing is not a security review.