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TLDR

A marketplace of installable Claude Code skills covering skill review, GitHub Actions security, cost analysis, flaky tests, and pull requests.

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    What it does
      Skill marketplace
      Multiple plugins
    Tech stack
      Claude Code skills
      Shell scripts
      GitHub Actions
    Use cases
      Skill review
      Workflow security
      Flaky test fixes
    Audience
      Claude Code users
    Plugins
      skill-tools
      security-tools
      test-tools
      pr-tools

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Review a homemade Claude Code skill against a fixed seven category quality rubric.

USE CASE 2

Harden a GitHub Actions workflow against prompt injection and supply chain attacks.

USE CASE 3

Detect and fix flaky tests across frameworks like Jest, pytest, and RSpec.

What is it built with?

ShellClaude CodeGitHub Actions

How does it compare?

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Setup difficultyeasyeasymoderate
Complexity2/52/53/5
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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Install via the Claude Code plugin marketplace commands shown in the README, no extra API keys required.

MIT: free to use, modify, and share, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

2x-skills is a marketplace of add-on skills for Claude Code, the AI coding assistant, built and shared by Intercom's Fin 2x team. Skills are packaged instructions that teach Claude Code how to handle a specific kind of task well, and this repository bundles several of them into installable plugins. The skill-tools plugin is aimed at people who write their own skills: it includes a skill-review skill that judges a skill against a fixed set of seven quality categories, covering things like whether it is well structured, honest about what it does, adequately tested, secure, high quality in its writing, follows conventions, and reasonable in the cost it runs up, and it returns that judgment as structured data rather than free text. The security-tools plugin focuses on hardening GitHub Actions workflows, the automation scripts that run on GitHub, against attacks that try to inject malicious commands or exploit the software supply chain. It comes with a checklist covering fourteen specific rules plus commands to audit a workflow, and a hook that automatically loads the relevant guidance whenever you edit a workflow file. The claude-code-tools plugin offers meta tools for running Claude Code itself well: one checks your list of allowed permissions against a red, yellow, green safety model, another finds command line tools that are missing or behave differently between Mac and Linux systems and fixes the incompatibility, and a third gives a framework for analyzing how much your Claude Code usage is costing based on its own telemetry data. The test-tools plugin includes a skill for investigating and fixing flaky tests, meaning tests that sometimes pass and sometimes fail with no code changes, by detecting which testing framework and continuous integration provider you use and classifying the type of flake it found, across frameworks like RSpec, Jest, pytest, and Go's built in testing tool. The code-review-tools plugin runs a very strict structural review looking specifically for places code could be meaningfully simplified, rather than hunting for outright bugs or minor style issues, while the pr-tools plugin helps open well formed GitHub pull requests from Claude Code and attach screenshots or recordings to them. The whole collection is released under the MIT license.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Install the skill-tools plugin from intercom/2x-skills and review my custom skill with it.
Prompt 2
Add the secure-github-actions skill and audit my repository's GitHub Actions workflows.
Prompt 3
Use the permissions-analyzer skill to check my Claude Code permission allowlist for risk.
Prompt 4
Run the fix-flaky-tests skill on my test suite and classify why a test keeps failing.

Frequently asked questions

What is 2x-skills?

A marketplace of installable Claude Code skills covering skill review, GitHub Actions security, cost analysis, flaky tests, and pull requests.

What language is 2x-skills written in?

Mainly Shell. The stack also includes Shell, Claude Code, GitHub Actions.

What license does 2x-skills use?

MIT: free to use, modify, and share, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is 2x-skills to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is 2x-skills for?

Mainly developer.

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