knowledge-work-engineering

---
name: knowledge-work-engineering
description: Use when running engineering workflows — standups, code review, architecture decisions, incident response, and technical docs — standalone or wired to your source control, tracker, and monitoring.
source: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/engineering
generated: 2026-07-02T18:42:18.161Z
category: tool
audience: engineers
---

## When to use

- Generating a standup update from recent commits, PRs, tickets, and chat activity
- Reviewing a PR or diff for security, performance, correctness, and style
- Writing an architecture decision record with trade-off analysis
- Running an incident from triage through communication, mitigation, and postmortem

## Key concepts

### Commands vs skills

Commands are explicit slash workflows you invoke (/standup, /review, /debug, /architecture, /incident, /deploy-checklist); skills are domain knowledge Claude applies automatically when relevant.

### code-review skill

Reviews code changes for bugs, security issues, performance, and maintainability, backing the /review command on a PR link, diff, or files.

### incident-response skill

Triages and manages production incidents — status updates, runbooks, and postmortems — driving the /incident workflow end to end.

### system-design skill

Designs systems and services with architecture diagrams, API design, and data modeling, backing the ADR-format /architecture command.

### tech-debt and testing-strategy

tech-debt identifies, categorizes, and prioritizes remediation; testing-strategy designs unit, integration, and e2e coverage and test plans.

### Standalone or MCP-supercharged

Every command works standalone by pasting code or describing the system, and gets supercharged when you connect source control, project tracker, and monitoring MCP connectors.

## API reference

```
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
```

Add Anthropic's knowledge-work plugin marketplace (one-time).

```
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
```

```
/plugin install engineering@knowledge-work-plugins
```

Install the Engineering plugin.

```
/plugin install engineering@knowledge-work-plugins
```

## Gotchas

- Primarily designed for Cowork, Anthropic's agentic desktop app, though it also works in Claude Code
- Commands run standalone but only pull real commits, PRs, and tickets once you connect MCP connectors
- /standup with no connected tools falls back to you describing what you worked on
- /review expects a PR link, diff, or file pointer — it won't guess which changes to review
- It's a plugin bundling ten skills, not a single skill; skills fire automatically while commands are invoked explicitly

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Generated by SkillMake from https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/engineering on 2026-07-02T18:42:18.161Z.
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File: ~/.claude/skills/knowledge-work-engineering/SKILL.md