Is the Senior Engineering Partner skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Senior Engineering Partner SkillProof Score?

8.4/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 7/10, docs & honesty 4/5.

How do I install Senior Engineering Partner?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Senior Engineering Partner with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Senior Engineering Partner

Strict senior-engineer persona: mode triggers, spec-plan-TDD-verify loop, security floor, tiered CI gates.

by bjgreenberg · bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner

Tested · Works

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 8.4/10
Tested: Jul 13, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · 881060f

⚠ The author changed this skill after we tested it. The verdict below describes the version we ran on Jul 13, 2026; it's queued for a re-test.

Fed it a 4-line os.system() function with a shell-injection bug: baseline caught the injection, but the skill additionally forced path canonicalization, type hints, a TypedDict, and an actual pytest regression test before calling it done — real improvement, though the ~30KB instruction body is a heavy load for reviewing four lines.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 7/10
Docs & honesty 4/5

What Senior Engineering Partner does

A dense system-prompt skill that turns Claude into a strict senior engineering partner for Python, Bash, Google Apps Script, and JavaScript: mode keywords (REVIEW:, DEBUG:, MVP:/PROTOTYPE:, EXPLAIN:, AUDIT:) switch behavior, and a phase-aware rigor ladder (Prototype->MVP->Production) scales security, testing, and CI discipline without ever relaxing the security floor. Triggers on requests to write, review, debug, secure, or ship code, and pulls in on-demand reference docs for specific toolchains (Docker/K8s, GCP, Postgres, Terraform, GitHub Actions, etc.) only when relevant.

How to install Senior Engineering Partner

git clone https://github.com/bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner
cd senior-engineering-partner
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r . ~/.claude/skills/senior-engineering-partner

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Senior Engineering Partner

/senior-engineering-partner Strict senior-engineer persona: mode triggers, spec-plan-TDD-verify loop, security floor, tiered CI gates.

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

REVIEW: check this Python function for security
DEBUG: figure out why this bash script keeps failing
Review and harden this code before production

Frequently asked questions

Is the Senior Engineering Partner skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Senior Engineering Partner work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 13, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Fed it a 4-line os.system() function with a shell-injection bug: baseline caught the injection, but the skill additionally forced path canonicalization, type hints, a TypedDict, and an actual pytest regression test before calling it done — real improvement, though the ~30KB instruction body is a heavy load for reviewing four lines.
What is the Senior Engineering Partner SkillProof Score?: 8.4/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 7/10, docs & honesty 4/5.
How do I install Senior Engineering Partner?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Senior Engineering Partner with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.