engineering

A software engineering plugin primarily designed for Cowork, Anthropic's agentic desktop application — though it also works in Claude Code. Helps with standups, code review, architecture decisions, incident response, debugging, and technical documentation. Works with any engineering team — standalone with your input, supercharged when you connect your source control, project tracker, and monitoring tools.

Installation

claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
claude plugin install engineering@knowledge-work-plugins

Commands

Explicit workflows you invoke with a slash command:

Command	Description
/standup	Generate a standup update from your recent activity — commits, PRs, tickets, and chat
/review	Review code changes — security, performance, style, and correctness
/debug	Structured debugging session — reproduce, isolate, diagnose, and fix
/architecture	Create or evaluate architecture decisions — ADR format with trade-off analysis
/incident	Run an incident response workflow — triage, communicate, mitigate, and write postmortem
/deploy-checklist	Pre-deployment checklist — verify tests, review changes, check dependencies, confirm rollback plan

All commands work standalone (paste code, describe your system, upload files) and get supercharged with MCP connectors.

Skills

Domain knowledge Claude uses automatically when relevant:

Skill	Description
code-review	Review code for bugs, security issues, performance, and maintainability
incident-response	Triage and manage production incidents — status updates, runbooks, postmortems
system-design	Design systems and services — architecture diagrams, API design, data modeling
tech-debt	Identify, categorize, and prioritize technical debt — build a remediation plan
testing-strategy	Design test strategies — unit, integration, e2e coverage, test plan creation
documentation	Write and maintain technical documentation — READMEs, API docs, runbooks, onboarding guides

Example Workflows

Morning Standup

/standup

If your tools are connected, I'll pull your recent commits, PR activity, and ticket updates. Otherwise, tell me what you worked on and I'll format it.

Code Review

/review https://github.com/org/repo/pull/123

Share a PR link, paste a diff, or point to files. Get a structured review covering security, performance, correctness, and style.

Debugging an Issue

/debug Users are getting 500 errors on the checkout page

Walk through a structured debugging process: reproduce, isolate, diagnose, fix. I'll help you think through it systematically.

Architecture Decision

/architecture Should we use a message queue or direct API calls between services?

Get a structured ADR with options analysis, trade-offs, and a recommendation.

Incident Response

/incident The payments service is returning 503s

Start an incident workflow: triage severity, draft communications, track timeline, and generate a postmortem when resolved.

Pre-Deploy Check

/deploy-checklist auth-service v2.3.0

Get a customized deployment checklist based on your service and what's changing.

Standalone + Supercharged

Every command and skill works without any integrations:

What You Can Do	Standalone	Supercharged With
Standup updates	Describe your work	Source control, Project tracker, Chat
Code review	Paste diff or code	Source control (pull PRs automatically)
Debug sessions	Describe the problem	Monitoring (pull logs and metrics)
Architecture decisions	Describe the system	Knowledge base (find prior ADRs)
Incident response	Describe the incident	Monitoring, Incident management, Chat
Deploy checklists	Describe the deploy	CI/CD, Source control

MCP Integrations

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Connect your tools for a richer experience:

Category	Examples	What It Enables
Source control	GitHub, GitLab	PR diffs, commit history, branch status
Project tracker	Linear, Jira, Asana	Ticket status, sprint data, assignments
Monitoring	Datadog, New Relic	Logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards
Incident management	PagerDuty, Opsgenie	On-call schedules, incident tracking, paging
Chat	Slack, Teams	Team discussions, standup channels
Knowledge base	Notion, Confluence	ADRs, runbooks, onboarding docs

See CONNECTORS.md for the full list of supported integrations.

Settings

Create a local settings file at engineering/.claude/settings.local.json to personalize:

{
  "name": "Your Name",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "team": "Your Team",
  "company": "Your Company",
  "techStack": ["Python", "TypeScript", "PostgreSQL", "AWS"],
  "defaultBranch": "main",
  "deployProcess": "canary"
}

The plugin will ask you for this information interactively if it's not configured.