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First steps

Owner: Maximilian LembergReviewed: 19 September 2026

After installing, you start Claude Code the usual way, with claude in your project. What is new is what Claude knows.

  • Skills load themselves. At session start, every plugin tells Claude in one sentence when its skills are needed. Write “the login is broken” and Claude reaches for analyse-bug without you knowing the name.
  • You can also call them directly, for example /awl-general:review. The exact spelling is on every page in the catalog.
  • The AWL principles are loaded: small changes, no inventing, think first.

In a project you do not know yet:

Understand the codebase
/awl-general:explain-codebase

Before you open a merge request:

Review
Review my changes on this branch.

When you have implemented a story:

Acceptance criteria
Check the ACs of the story for this branch.

The last prompt uses ac-checker: it reads the issue number from the branch name and checks every acceptance criterion against the code.