The Skills
A skill is the practice's judgment about one conversation, written down so the conversation goes right every time. Not a plugin—a structured collaborator with opinions and refusals. The skills are Claude-Code-native; the artifacts they produce are tool-agnostic, and the templates are right there.
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Each skill is known by what it produces and where it sits in the chain. Real-session transcript renderings arrive in v2; for now, the anatomy and the source.
ho-kamae-1-seed-collaborator
A probing collaborator for developing Ho System project seeds.
Claude Code skill · grounded in Kamae: Project Framing §2.1 → · SKILL.md source →
ho-kamae-2-system-design-collaborator
A design collaborator for developing Ho System System Designs — the second document in the Kamae chain.
Claude Code skill · grounded in Kamae: Project Framing §2.2 → · SKILL.md source →
ho-kamae-3-readme-collaborator
A draft-and-update collaborator for Ho System project READMEs — the third document in the Kamae chain.
Claude Code skill · grounded in Kamae: Project Framing §2.3 → · SKILL.md source →
ho-kamae-4-overview-collaborator
A planning collaborator for developing Ho System ho overviews — the fourth document in the Kamae chain.
Claude Code skill · grounded in Kamae: Project Framing §2.4 → · SKILL.md source →
ho-kamae-5-authoring-collaborator
An authoring collaborator for per-ho documents — the fifth document type in the Kamae chain.
Claude Code skill · grounded in Ho Structure → · authors from the templates → · SKILL.md source →
ho-setup-personal-environment-collaborator
A configuration collaborator for setting up a Ho System practitioner's `~/.claude/` environment.
Claude Code skill · grounded in The Operating Discipline → · SKILL.md source →
ho-setup-project-environment-collaborator
A scaffolding collaborator for starting new Ho System projects.
Claude Code skill · grounded in Verification Practices → · SKILL.md source →
ho-tool-index-maintenance
Maintains the Ho System repository's INDEX.md and frontmatter system.
Claude Code skill · SKILL.md source →
The full catalog and the two scopes it spans—practitioner and project—are described in the framework's skills overview.