Traverse Claude Skills

The only purpose of this repo is to host Claude Skills for building apps with Traverse — the contract-driven WASM runtime. It's a distribution point, not a place for runtime code, capability contracts, or reference apps; those live in traverse, registry, and reference-apps respectively.

Skills

Skill	What it does
traverse-capability-author	Interviews you about a new capability (or an extension to one), one question at a time — checks the public and any private registry to avoid duplication, decides public vs. private and generic vs. project-specific, then authors a contract and genuinely executable, ABI-compliant WASM implementation, and publishes it via a human-reviewed PR. Refuses to embed secrets.
traverse-capability-extractor	Scans an existing repo (open-source or your own) for business logic that's a good capability candidate, proposes an atomic decomposition, verifies the extraction reproduces the original behavior, and hands off to traverse-capability-author for the actual authoring/publish.
traverse-workflow-planner	Takes a business workflow or use case, decomposes it into the atomic capabilities it needs, checks both registries for what already exists, produces a gap list, routes each gap to traverse-capability-author or traverse-capability-extractor, and composes the finished pieces into a multi-node workflow.

These three replace the earlier traverse-app-builder skill, split along the natural seams that emerged from real use: authoring one capability, extracting one from existing code, and planning a whole workflow's worth of capabilities are different enough problems that one skill covering all of them was getting overloaded. All of traverse-app-builder's verified content (the ABI whitelist gotcha, the no_std implementation pattern, the toolchain trap, the registry mechanics) carried forward into whichever of the three it actually belonged to — nothing was dropped, and the three are designed to hand off to each other rather than duplicate one another's mechanics.

Install a skill

Copy the skill directory into your own Claude Skills location:

git clone https://github.com/traverse-framework/claude-skills.git
cp -R claude-skills/skills/traverse-capability-author ~/.claude/skills/traverse-capability-author

Claude will pick it up automatically the next time its description matches what you're asking for. If you want the full set (recommended — they're designed to hand off to each other), copy all three:

for skill in traverse-capability-author traverse-capability-extractor traverse-workflow-planner; do
  cp -R "claude-skills/skills/$skill" "~/.claude/skills/$skill"
done

A note on accuracy

Every skill in this repo is meant to be verified against the real, current state of Traverse — not written from the docs or from what the framework is supposed to do eventually. Where a skill documents a limitation (a hardcoded execution allowlist, an ABI constraint, a missing CLI command), that's something that was hands-on reproduced, not assumed. If the underlying platform changes and a skill goes stale, please open an issue or a PR rather than letting it silently drift out of sync — a skill that overclaims what Traverse can do today is worse than no skill at all.

Governance

This repo follows the shared governance model defined in traverse-framework/.github. See CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a PR.