You Can Just Ask Claude What Your Codebase Needs

Every new project, I used to do the same thing: manually wire up hooks, throw together a subagent or two, guess at which MCP servers might help, and hope I wasn't missing something obvious. No real system — just muscle memory from the last project, half-applied to a completely different one.

So I built a skill that does the guessing for you. Point it at a repo, and it scans your stack — language, framework, database, tests, CI setup, the works — and hands back a categorized report of exactly what to set up: which hooks, which subagents, which MCP servers, which skills, all tied to something it actually found in your code. It's read-only, so it doesn't touch anything — it just tells you, and you (or Claude) build from there. Doesn't matter if you're starting fresh or six months into a project, it just reads what's there and fills in the gaps.

The full skill is on GitHub: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/main/plugins/claude-code-setup/skills/claude-automation-recommender. Drop it into .claude/skills/ in any project and see what it finds — if you want more options for one category specifically, just ask and it'll dig deeper.