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Ship like a staff engineer.

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.

The free skills are live. Drop your email → install instructions land in your inbox, plus first dibs on the full pack. No spam.

✓ You're in. Check your inbox — your install instructions are there.
The difference

Prompts improvise. Skills ship.

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.

Raw prompting

Re-explain your stack every session. Hope it remembers OrbStack, Doppler, the CI shape. Different output each run.

Staff Engineer

One command runs a real, battle-tested script. Scaffold apps, wire CI/CD, set up observability, audit your toolchain — deterministic, every time.

The pack

Opinionated. Deterministic. Done.

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.

/squidapp

ready

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.

$ /squidapp payments-api

/squidops

ready · free

Devops toolchain doctor. Checks brew, git, gh, doctl, Doppler, New Relic, wrangler are installed and authenticated. Offers installs, explains every login.

$ /squidops

/squidci

coming

GitHub Actions that test, build images, and auto-deploy to DigitalOcean on push to main. Zero-to-pipeline.

$ /squidci

/squidmon

coming

Observability in minutes: New Relic health checks, dashboards, and alert channels wired to email + Slack.

$ /squidmon

/squidpush

coming

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.

$ /squidpush

/squidflow

coming

Durable workflows & background jobs with Inngest — scheduled tasks, retries, and multi-step flows, local in Docker for dev and cloud in prod.

$ /squidflow
How it works

Three minutes to a sharper Claude.

Grab the free skills

Enter your email and the install instructions land in your inbox instantly. No runtime, no telemetry.

Install in Claude Code

One line from the email installs them as a plugin. Idempotent — update anytime with squidup.

Just build

Type /squidapp in any session, or let Claude trigger skills by description. It now ships like you do.

See how it all works, end to end →
Who's behind it

Written by someone who's been paged at 3am.

🦑

Built by a staff engineer with decades in Silicon Valley — Lyft (Zimride), StumbleUpon, Prezi, TRM Labs and others — shipping high-scale production systems for millions of users. Every skill encodes a real, opinionated workflow, not a generic tutorial. You're buying judgment, packaged.

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Questions

FAQ

What exactly do I get?

The free skills (squidapp + squidops) install straight into Claude Code — drop your email and the install instructions arrive instantly. The full pack is a one-time purchase: a digital copy you own, not a subscription, with every future skill included.

Do skills get updated after I buy?

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.

Do I need anything special?

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.

Is there a free version?

Yes — and it's live now. Drop your email and you'll get the install instructions for squidapp (full-stack scaffold) and squidops (toolchain doctor), free. The full pack — deploy, observability, real-time, durable workflows — is the paid product.

How is this different from just prompting Claude?

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.

When does it launch?

The free skills are out nowsquidapp and squidops, installable today. The full paid pack (deploy, observability, real-time, durable workflows) lands next; join the list to get it first.

Give your AI a staff engineer's instincts.

Buy once, own it forever — every refinement and new skill included. Get the free skill now, the full pack first.

✓ You're in. Check your inbox — your install instructions are there.