Why Lean Skills, Not 100

Most agents drown in skills. Every skill you add inflates context, burns tokens, and degrades output quality. We've seen agents with 50+ skills produce worse results than one with 5 — because the model spends half its context window just reading instructions it won't use.

forwward-teams is a lean skills set for founders and their teams. Everything you need, nothing you don't. Built for technical teams but includes skills for ops, hiring, meetings, presentations, and writing — the whole team, not just engineering.

What You Get

For the whole team

| Skill | Your Team Member | Does What | |-------|-----------------|-----------| | /start | Onboarding | Learns your company, initializes env, recommends first skills | | /onboard | Setup Assistant | Configures new agents — 10 questions, tests tools, sets guardrails | | /standup | Chief of Staff | Status updates that leaders actually read — outcome-first, with options + lean for blockers | | /meeting | Meeting Scribe | Turns transcripts or rough notes into decisions, action items (owner + deadline), and open questions | | /write | Writer | Blog posts, X threads, newsletters — founder voice | | /voice | Voice Coach | Captures your writing style so /write, /gtm, /pcp-engine, /sales sound like you | | /deck | Presentation Strategist | Slide structure and content for pitches, QBRs, board updates — the argument, not the design | | /hire | Talent Partner | Job descriptions, interview rubrics, scorecards, and offer letter templates for any role | | /ops | Ops Writer | SOPs, process docs, runbooks, and handoff docs for non-technical and cross-functional teams | | /team-memory | Memory Consolidator | REM sleep for the team — git, PRs, tracker tickets, decisions + WHY, root causes. Monorepo-aware: recursively discovers nested CLAUDE.md and .claude/ directories |

Engineering

| Skill | Your Team Member | Does What | |-------|-----------------|-----------| | /team-lead | Lead | Composes agent teams, coordinates parallel work | | /cto | CTO | Architecture decisions, build-vs-buy, PRDs, tech debt | | /architect | System Designer | DB selection, project structure, API design, caching, scaling — detects your stack | | /buildit | Engineer | Fullstack across any stack — detects TypeScript, Python, Go, Rails, Java, Rust and adapts | | /gate | QA | Self-healing verification: lint → types → build → tests — works with any build system | | /audit | Senior Engineer | Aggressive de-slop: dead code, DRY/SOLID violations, AI noise, frontend slop patterns — one commit, behavior-preserving | | /review | Reviewer | Paranoid code review — races, N+1s, trust boundaries, OWASP | | /shipit | Shipping Engineer | Full pipeline: gate → squash → PR, or release (version bump → changelog → tag → dry-run → publish → health check). Hotfix fast-track. Covers Node, Go, Python, Ruby, Rust, Java, Terraform, Pulumi, Lambda, CDK | | /design | Designer | Anti-slop UI/UX — real design principles, no AI aesthetics | | /devops | SRE | CI/CD, Docker (Node/Python/Go/Rails), monitoring, alerting, incident response | | /security | InfoSec | OWASP, HIPAA, SOC 2, auth, encryption — stack-neutral | | /data | Analyst | SQL, metrics, dashboards, event tracking, cohort analysis | | /technical-writer | Tech Writer | Docs, runbooks, API references, READMEs — structured discovery before drafting |

Business

| Skill | Your Team Member | Does What | |-------|-----------------|-----------| | /ceo | CEO | Vision, OKRs, hiring, fundraising, pivot-or-persist | | /strategy | Strategist | Customer discovery, ICP, pricing, competitive intel | | /gtm | Growth | Viral loops, launch playbooks, K-factor optimization | | /pcp-engine | Copywriter | Conversion copy, landing pages, email sequences — ICP-targeted | | /finance | CFO | Unit economics, burn rate, runway, financial models | | /sales | AE | Outreach, demos, objection handling, pipeline management | | /legal | Counsel | ToS, privacy, contracts, IP, licensing — industry-aware | | /medic | Clinician | OCR medical records, clinical summaries, data presentation | | /switch | Migration | Export all AI context, move to any platform |

Install

Works with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode

npx skills add iankiku/forwward-teams

Or install globally (all projects):

npx skills add iankiku/forwward-teams -g

Interactive installer

npx @iankiku/forwward-teams

Claude Code plugin marketplace

/plugin marketplace add iankiku/forwward-teams
/plugin install forwward-teams@forwward

Update

If you installed via npx skills:

npx skills update

If you see "cannot be updated automatically (installed before skillPath tracking)", refresh once:

npx skills add iankiku/forwward-teams -y

If you installed via the forwward-teams CLI directly:

npx -p @iankiku/forwward-teams fwd skills update

This path also auto-prunes any forwward skills that were renamed or removed in the new release. Other plugins' skills sharing the install directory are left alone — the cleanup keys off the (forwward) description prefix.

0.5.0 rename: /build and /ship were renamed to /buildit and /shipit to avoid name collisions with other plugins (e.g., superpowers/ship). On update, the old build and ship directories are pruned automatically; the new buildit and shipit are installed in their place. Update any scripts or aliases accordingly.

Quick Start

# First time? Two options:
/start     # Learn your company, initialize environment
/onboard   # Configure a new agent from scratch (10 questions, tool testing)

# Then use your team
/team-lead Build user authentication with OAuth
/ceo       Should we raise a seed round or bootstrap?
/cto       Should we build or buy payments?
/buildit   Add Stripe checkout to the pricing page
/strategy  Define our ICP for enterprise sales
/write     Thread about what we learned shipping v2
/gtm       Design the referral loop for our waitlist
/meeting   Paste your call transcript — get decisions + action items
/standup   Write my update for the leadership team
/hire      Write a JD for a senior backend engineer
/audit    # de-slop before you ship
/gate     # verify everything passes
/review   # paranoid code review
/shipit   # PR flow, release flow, or hotfix

How It Works

npx skills add → copies SKILL.md files → your agent loads them on demand

• Skills are lean SKILL.md files (~80 lines each) that agents load on demand
• No dependencies — pure markdown, works in any repo
• No lock-in — delete any skill independently, they're self-contained
• Cross-platform — same format works across Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode
• Stack-agnostic — technical skills detect your project's stack and adapt (TypeScript, Python, Go, Rails, Java, Rust, and more)

Philosophy

• Lean — Every skill earns its place. No bloat, no context pollution.
• Anti-bloat — More skills = more context pollution = worse output. We chose quality over quantity.
• Scaffold — Basics that teams extend, not a rigid framework.
• Plugin-friendly — Install, uninstall, update cleanly.

Feedback & Issues

Something didn't work? A skill produced bad output for your stack? Missing a skill entirely?

| Type | Where | |------|-------| | Skill produced wrong output | Open a skill-quality issue | | Install or CLI broke | Open an install issue | | Missing skill | Request a new skill | | Show what you built | GitHub Discussions |

Skills are only as good as the feedback they get. The more specific the issue (which skill, which stack, what you asked, what came out), the faster it gets fixed.

Contributing

1. Fork and clone
2. Add or edit skills in skills/
3. Keep SKILL.md under 100 lines — lean is the point
4. Test in a real project: npx skills add ./path/to/fork
5. Open a PR

License

MIT

Note: This skill set is provided as-is for educational and personal use. The access and permissions you grant your agent are your responsibility to configure and enforce. The author is not liable for data loss, unintended access, or misconfiguration resulting from use of these skills.

Built by @iankiku — born from building forwward.app in 7 days