art-of-readme

The nomenclature dates back to at least the 1970s and the PDP-10, though it may even harken back to the days of informative paper notes placed atop stacks of punchcards, "READ ME!" scrawled on them, describing their use.

Skills
Productivity
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What it does and how to use it

A skill that teaches Claude Code to do productivity tasks well. It is packaged knowledge the model uses whenever it is relevant.

Install the skill (command above).
In Claude Code, describe what you need - the skill turns on by itself when the context fits.
No commands to memorize: you talk in plain language and the skill does the rest.

Install (Claude Code)

mkdir -p .claude/skills/art-of-readme && curl -fsSL https://doutorai.pt/data/lib/skills__art-of-readme.md -o .claude/skills/art-of-readme/SKILL.md

Paste this command into the terminal, in your project folder, and the component installs automatically.

Content

# Art of README

> Source: [hackergrrl/art-of-readme](https://github.com/hackergrrl/art-of-readme)

*This article can also be read in [Chinese](README-zh.md),
[Japanese](README-ja-JP.md),
[Brazilian Portuguese](README-pt-BR.md), [Spanish](README-es-ES.md),
[German](README-de-DE.md), [French](README-fr.md) and [Traditional Chinese](README-zh-TW.md).*

## Etymology

Where does the term "README" come from?

The nomenclature dates back to *at least* the 1970s [and the
PDP-10](http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/decuslib10-04/01/43,50322/read.me.html),
though it may even harken back to the days of info

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