Knack Starter Pack

Free, MIT-licensed Claude Code skills. Turn a messy idea or brief into structured next steps in five minutes, and see how a Knack pack is shaped.

Two skills. No licence key. No telemetry. The fastest way to see what a Knack pack actually does.

What's inside

• idea-clarifier: Take a rough product idea, consulting brief, or project sketch and get a clear audience, a pain point in the audience's own words, an offer framing (one product, one price, one channel), and a ranked first-action plan. Rejects category audiences ("founders", "marketers"), demands a real audience-voice quote before writing the pain section, and refuses to invent specifics you didn't supply.

• first-skill-template: Scaffold a new Claude Code skill at .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md with the canonical Knack body pattern (frontmatter, when-to-use, inputs, steps, output format, worked-example pointer, don'ts). Refuses to overwrite an existing file.

Plus two end-to-end worked examples showing each skill against a realistic input.

Install

git clone https://github.com/knack-run/knack-starter-pack.git
cd knack-starter-pack
./install.sh

On Windows, double-click install.cmd from File Explorer for the easiest path. The full Windows + non-interactive recipe is on the pack page at knack.run.

The installer copies the two skills into your Claude Code config directory (~/.claude/ by default; override with CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR). No licence key, no prompts, no telemetry.

If you don't have Claude Code yet: it's Anthropic's official CLI for Claude, open-source and free to use (you bring your own API key).

Try it

Once installed, restart Claude Code and try:

> I have an idea for a tool that helps consultants automate their proposals.
> What do I do with it?

idea-clarifier will fire, push back on vague answers, and produce a four-section plan. The walkthrough at examples/01-idea-clarifier-walkthrough/ shows the end-to-end flow against a realistic indie-hacker brief.

Going deeper

This is the free starter pack. The paid Knack catalogue at knack.run/packs goes deep on specific operator jobs (consulting ops first, indie-hacker launches next). Each is lifetime-licensed: one-time payment, no subscription, free updates for life.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests welcome. The canonical source for this pack lives in the Knack monorepo at knack-run/knack; changes accepted here are propagated back. For larger contributions or new-pack proposals, drop a line to hello@knack.run.

About Knack

Curated Claude Code skill packs. Lifetime licence, no subscriptions.

• Site: knack.run
• All packs: knack.run/packs
• X: @Knack_run
• LinkedIn: knackrun
• GitHub: knack-run

Licence

MIT. See LICENCE.md. Use it, fork it, redistribute it, build on it, charge for it. The only thing we ask is the copyright notice stays intact.