Show HN: The System Skill Pattern
shruggingface.comHello HN!
I’ve been playing with Claude Skills and stumbled on a simple pattern for tiny, durable personal data systems:
* CLI: a small, self-contained executable
* SKILL.md: the operator guide (what to run, how to parse output, how to think about the system)
* SQLite: a local DB for persistent state
It’s nothing mind-blowing, but the ergonomics of this combo feel great.
If you define a process/flow, Claude can "turn the crank" by running the CLI, accumulating context, and animating the system to life over time.
They’re also easy to share: you can distribute System Skills via Claude Code’s `/plugin marketplace add <repo>`.
More details in the blog post and the toy Pomodoro System Skill reference implementation here:
Blog: https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/the-system-skill-pattern
Repo: https://github.com/jakedahn/pomodoro
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Curious whether any of this resonates. Also excited to hear any interesting System Skill ideas worth exploring! "Claude Memory" seems related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684134 Ooo, yeah! I’m excited to play with their memory stuff. I’m curious if they will add any hooks for allowing skills to store things intentionally. The system skill idea is a little different in that you can store and query structured data out of your own SQLite db.