Developer restructures Claude AI toolkit into 20 agents across three-layer framework

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A developer has reorganised a personal Claude Code toolkit into three distinct layers — skills (knowledge), agents (roles), and commands (workflow entry points) — to make it composable and shareable. Four new agents covering database engineering, project management, API development, and penetration testing were added, bringing the total roster to 20 and completing full software development lifecycle coverage. The architecture separates knowledge from role personas, so updating a single skill automatically improves every agent that references it. Before open-sourcing the toolkit, the author stripped personal names, private product details, and machine-specific paths, replacing them with generic, portable equivalents. The key takeaway offered is that good shareable tooling teaches a method without revealing anything about its original creator's clients or environment.

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