@arcanea/skills

97 Claude Code skills for creative intelligence — worldbuilding, coding, writing, design, and more.

This package bundles the top 20 A-grade skills from the Arcanea ecosystem, ready to install into Claude Code with a single command.

Install

# One-shot install (no global install needed)
npx @arcanea/skills

# Or install globally
npm install -g @arcanea/skills
arcanea-skills

Skills are copied to ~/.claude/skills/ where Claude Code picks them up automatically.

What's Included

Creative Writing (7 skills)

| Skill | Description | |-------|-------------| | story-weave | Narrative structure, plot arcs, and story architecture | | character-forge | Deep character creation with psychology and arcs | | world-build | Complete world construction — geography, culture, magic systems | | scene-craft | Scene-level writing with pacing, tension, and beats | | dialogue-mastery | Authentic dialogue with subtext and voice differentiation | | voice-alchemy | Distinctive narrative voice and prose style development | | bestiary-nav | Creative creature design and mythological taxonomy |

Software Development (7 skills)

| Skill | Description | |-------|-------------| | code-review | Structured code review with security and quality focus | | tdd | Test-driven development with London School mocking | | systematic-debug | Root-cause analysis and systematic debugging methodology | | api-design | RESTful and GraphQL API design patterns | | architecture-patterns | System architecture, DDD, and design patterns | | refactoring-ritual | Safe refactoring with incremental transformation | | performance-tuning | Performance profiling, optimization, and benchmarking |

Arcanea Framework (6 skills)

| Skill | Description | |-------|-------------| | centaur-mode | Human-AI collaborative workflow orchestration | | prompt-craft | Advanced prompt engineering and chain-of-thought design | | luminor-wisdom | Arcanea's council of AI advisors for strategic guidance | | arcanea-creator-academy | Complete creator onboarding through the Ten Gates | | deep-work | Focus protocols and deep concentration techniques | | creative-flow | Creative state management and inspiration systems |

Usage

CLI

# List all bundled skills
arcanea-skills --list

# Preview what would be installed
arcanea-skills --dry-run

# Install to ~/.claude/skills/
arcanea-skills

Programmatic

const skills = require('@arcanea/skills');

// Get all skill names
console.log(skills.skills);
// => ['story-weave', 'character-forge', 'world-build', ...]

// Get skills by category
const devSkills = skills.getByCategory('development');
// => ['code-review', 'tdd', 'systematic-debug', ...]

// Get path to a specific skill
const storyPath = skills.getSkillPath('story-weave');

The Arcanea Ecosystem

This package is part of the Arcanea creative multiverse — a living ecosystem where creators chat with AI, build fantasy worlds, share what they make, and turn imagination into products.

The full ecosystem includes 97 skills across categories:

• Creative Writing and Worldbuilding
• Software Development and Architecture
• AI Agent Design and Orchestration
• Visual Design and Brand Systems
• Game Development and Interactive Fiction
• Community and Collaboration

Related Packages

• @arcanea/soul — Core identity and lore engine
• @arcanea/mcp — MCP server for worldbuilding tools
• claude-arcanea — Claude Code overlay with Arcanea integration

License

MIT