BaseCode Skills

A set of AI skills and commands for applying BaseCode practices — a focused, language-agnostic set of principles for writing human readable code.

Installation

There are multiple ways to install these skills and commands.

If you primarily use Claude Code, we recommend installing the plugin. Otherwise, you may install through npx.

Claude Code

Add the marketplace and install globally by running:

/plugin marketplace add jasonmccreary/basecode-skills
/plugin install basecode@jasonmccreary --scope user

The --scope user flag installs the plugin once for your entire system — no per-project setup needed.

NPX Skills

You may also install via Skills by running:

npx skills add jasonmccreary/basecode-skills

Commands

• /basecode — review and refactor code to apply BaseCode practices for human readability

What are BaseCode Practices?

BaseCode is a set of focused, language-agnostic principles for writing code that communicates clearly to the humans who read it. The practices cover naming, functions, conditionals, comments, and structure — the everyday decisions that make code a pleasure or a burden to work with.

Learn more at basecodefieldguide.com.