How to fly with Claude at Planes
Your out-of-the-box skills, set up. These are some of the best skills we've found and started reaching for regularly. Where it made sense, we've shaped them around how we already work at Planes.
Set up your cockpit
How to get started with Claude Code, and install your first skills
Pick the right model
Give every project a memory
A CLAUDE.md file (or a context.md on Claude.ai) tells Claude what the project is, who it's for, and what to steer clear of. Claude reads it at the start of every session, so you're not re-explaining the basics each time.
You don't have to write it by hand. Ask Claude to draft one for you, and do it in plan mode so it proposes the file before writing anything. To switch into plan mode in Claude Code, press Shift+Tab until it shows.
Install the skills you reach for
Open Claude Code and add The Hangar marketplace once, then install whichever plugins you want:
claude plugin marketplace add teamplanes/hangarclaude plugin install hangar-design@planes-hangarSwap the bay name for your discipline. Skills land as slash commands and stay available between sessions, so there's nothing to paste back in.
Use Projects for ongoing client work
Stay up to date
New skills land in The Hangar all the time. Turn auto-update on once and Claude pulls the latest at the start of each session (you'll get a /reload-plugins nudge when something new arrives). In /plugin → Marketplaces → planes-hangar → enable auto-update, or drop this into your settings:
Or pull manually any time:
The skills worth installing
Research synthesis to FigJam
Turn one user interview transcript into a thematic analysis, output as a ready-to-import FigJam board (theme bands, participant card, colour-coded insight stickies, verbatim quotes) plus a markdown file so interviews can be combined later.
A/B Testing
You are an expert in experimentation and A/B testing. Your goal is to help design tests that produce statistically valid, actionable results. Check for product…
Analytics Setup
You are an expert in analytics implementation and measurement. Your goal is to help set up tracking that provides actionable insights for marketing and product…
Customer Research
You are an expert customer researcher. Your goal is to help uncover what customers actually think, feel, say, and struggle with, so that everything from positi…
Onboarding Optimisation
You are an expert in user onboarding and activation. Your goal is to help users reach their "aha moment" as quickly as possible and establish habits that lead …
Problem statement sharpener
Turn a vague problem description into a sharp, well-scoped statement with user context, root cause, and a measurable success signal.
User interview synthesis
Paste raw interview notes and get structured themes, supporting quotes, tensions, and recommended next steps.
Turning user research transcripts into JTBDs
Takes a stack of raw user interview transcripts and pulls out Jobs To Be Done in the format Planes uses. Situation-led, in the user's own language, with quoted…
Copy Editing
You are an expert copy editor specializing in marketing and conversion copy. Your goal is to systematically improve existing copy through focused editing passe…
UI critique
Get a structured, numbered critique of a UI with specific, actionable feedback across hierarchy, clarity, consistency, and accessibility.
Writing a tight design brief
Turns a loose project intake into a sharp, Planes-style design brief. Opinionated. Single-pager. Ready to share with the team and the client. - Kicking off a n…
Debug trace
Systematic debugging, state the error, form hypotheses in order of likelihood, and test each one before jumping to a fix.
Reviewing a PR with Claude (the Planes way)
A two-pass PR review with Claude that catches the boring stuff and asks the questions a senior engineer at Planes would actually ask. - Any PR larger than ~150…
Case study structure
Structure a client project as a compelling, shareable case study, with a clear problem, an honest account of the work, and a result worth citing.
Cold introduction
Write a sharp, human cold introduction email for a new prospect, specific, brief, and worth replying to.
Drafting a credentials response for an RFP
Drafts the credentials section of an RFP response in Planes' voice. Confident, specific, grounded in named work, without sliding into agency-speak. - Respondin…
Feedback helper
Turn your last few months of Leapsome feedback into a grounded growth summary, superpowers, growth areas, and progression goals mapped against Planes' frameworks and behaviours. Needs Notion connected.
What's new in the Hangar
Show a rundown of the skills most recently added to The Hangar, what each does and how to run it, so you know what you just got after a plugin update.
Humanizer
Strip the tells out of AI-generated writing so it reads like a person wrote it. Catches inflated significance, promotional language, rule-of-three, AI vocabulary, em dash overuse, and 25 other patterns.
Email polish
Rewrite a draft email to be clearer, shorter, and more likely to get a reply.
Second opinion
Get a structured devil's advocate on any decision, plan, or proposal, what you might be missing, what could go wrong, and what a smart critic would say.
Rubber-ducking with a critical Claude
Turns Claude into the colleague who asks the awkward question. Useful when you're about to commit to a direction and want one more pass before you do. - About …
Ten names
Generate 10 genuinely unusual name options for anything, products, features, projects, teams, with a brief rationale for each.
What people are actually reaching for
Ranked by the number of times people view and copy skills over the last week.